Our Philosophy Empowering Youth with skills and confidence to build their future. We accomplish our mission through a three-part program: An advanced technology training program with two tracks-web site design and geographic information services Two non-profit businesses that generate revenue and provide trainees with opportunities to work on real client projects as part of their training: A web site design business A geographic information systems services (GIS) business An internship, job placement, and educational growth program We have four fundamental programs that make up the Hopeworks experience: Youth Entrepreneurial Training Funded under a grant from the Camden Empowerment Zone to Camden-based EDTEC, Youth Entrepreneurial Training teaches trainees how to identify and capitalize on business opportunities. Hope Through School A 10 month program for youth that are in currently in high school. Hope Through School begins with an eight-week summer training in web site design skills. Youth who successfully complete the summer training have an after-school job with us during the academic school year. HopeworksGIS HopeworksGIS builds on the basic training component of our original web site design curriculum by offering an advanced track in GIS technology. It also expands our non-profit business scope to include geographic information services for local, governmental and non-profit organizations. Hopeworks is able to deploy youth data collection teams to meet custom client needs. Hopeworks SummerGIS Hopeworks SummerGIS will deploy 16 youth in 3 seperate GIS data collection teams who will update the digitalized parcel base map of the City of Camden. The goals of this program are: To teach basic GIS data collection skills to 13 high school youth In conjunction with our Hope Through School Program, to allow four of the youth to continue with after school jobs during the following 2002-2003 academic year To build team skills: The SummerGIS project is designed to be completely youth managed. Youth will be teaching and instructing other youth. The three youth team leaders manage the project from start to finish. To provide a rewarding and safe environment for youth to work in during the summer. To produce a complete parcel map of the City of Camden that will be populated with the following data layers: Current housing conditions Lot descriptions Street conditions Location of community assets Location of all street lights
Hopeworks 'N Camden  543 State St.  Camden, NJ 08102   Phone: 856-365-HOPE   Fax: 856-365-8734 Contact us