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Our PACE Program is an 8+ week group program designed for urban young adults who desire to develop the necessary skills to shift from seeking a job to building a career. While other important programs focus on job training and placement, the PACE Program invests in building critical soft skills that support sustainable and satisfying careers.

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PACE Program - UpWorks This 8+ week group program is designed for urban young adults who to develop the necessary skills to shift from seeking a job to building a career.While other important programs focus on job training and placement, the PACE Program invests in building critical soft skills that support sustainable an...

During COVID-19, our community’s needs are more significant than ever. All of our programs continue to operate at total capacity using safe practices. Our Enriching Schools Program provides direct pandemic relief. Our PACE Program and Empowering Adults Program are currently entirely virtual.

UpWorks is pleased to share with you some upcoming developments. Our Director of the Empowering Adults Program, Kevin Saunders, has accepted two new positions with our partner organizations, LINC Twin Cities and Redeemer Center for Life. Kevin will remain a consultant to UpWorks to amplify the relationship between UpWorks and these two partner organizations.

In addition, UpWorks has been working on changes to best position ourselves for strength and growth in 2021, and those changes will be rolling out over the next few weeks. Stay tuned for what's to come!

Through our Enriching Schools Program, we have been able to form thriving partnerships with organizations to serve their local schools. We ask schools with underserved students what pressing needs they would like to see filled to uplift their students. Several requests we receive from schools are to provide direct pandemic relief.

Recently, volunteers from Zion Lutheran Church in Minneapolis donated and prepared recess equipment for students at Lyndale Community School PTO to meet the school’s COVID-19 requirement for each class to have their own set of recess equipment. Thanks to our network partners, we were able to respond to a unique request and make a difference in students’ lives!

Our Enriching Schools Program facilitates by being a bridge between organizations and local schools. Learn more about how your organization or school can benefit from partnering with UpWorks. https://upworksmn.org/enriching-schools-program/

When you invest in UpWorks, our Enriching Schools Program can provide resources into the hands of students and their families of our school partners caused by the aftermath of the pandemic. Even before COVID-19, we supported schools with urgent needs for underserved students through volunteering, tutoring, providing emotional support via mentoring programs, assisting school events, donating supplies, and serving schools as they requested.

Our Enriching Schools Program has helped students and their families by setting up food donations and personal care shelves at schools and churches to help fulfill basic needs. We even facilitated establishing a food shelf at a school that had never needed something like this before until COVID-19 arose. Our partner volunteers further met this need by delivering food to families who could not make it to their local distribution site.

This incredible life-changing work happens when you invest and support in UpWorks! Donate today to support lasting change in your surrounding schools at https://upworksmn.org/lasting-change-fund.