Massachusetts Promise Fellowship


Massachusetts Promise Fellowship is a non-profit AmeriCorps organization that places Fellows who commit to a year of service at non-profit organizations, schools, and city agencies across Massachusetts to create, lead, and manage youth development projects.

Mission

The Massachusetts Promise Fellowship believes that all young people in the Commonwealth have a right to the resources that they need to be successful in life, including a caring adult, a safe place, a healthy start, an effective education, and an opportunity to serve. They deliver these 5 promises to youth by training emerging leaders who commit one year of service to support and provide these needed resources to youth throughout the Commonwealth.

The 5 Promises

Massachusetts Promise Fellows work to deliver the 5 Promises to youth and their communities. These are well-defined objectives developed in partnership with host sites and funders. All Fellow projects align with at least one of these five promises:
Marketable Skills:
Fellows will work closely with and support emerging youth leaders as the young people develop and implement a variety of activities, programs, and projects that benefit their community.
Caring Adult:
Fellows will develop new mentoring programs and expand upon current mentoring programs in an effort to establish and support new mentor/mentee matches.
Safe Place:
Fellows will develop and lead out-of-school enrichment activities for young people.
Healthy Start:
Fellows will coordinate and lead education and outreach efforts to inform and educate young people on a variety of issues and topics.
Opportunity to Serve:
Fellows will actively recruit, train, and manage volunteers that will serve to support their project and the mission of their host organization.