Heal the Hood

Youth Summer Employment

The Program:

Our Summer Youth Program provides a safe space with nourishment -- beyond food we also provide mentorship, mutual support, and skills learning.

Youth in the summer program will:

  1. Work in the Peoples’ Free Store to distribute mutual aid to their neighbors

  2. Contribute to our Grow the Hood initiative of sustainable local agriculture

  3. Learn community outreach and activism skills in their own neighborhood

Our Youth Need Your Support:

We want to support 15 youth in our 8-week summer program starting on July 6th. We provide youth a $300 stipend per week for participation in the program. 

Please donate what you can to help support a young person in your community.

Campaign goal: $36,000 (stipends for 15 youth for the 8-week program and the summer lunch program.)

  1. Support 1 youth for 1 day: $100

  2. Support our lunch fund lunch for the youth for one day: $150

  3. Support 1 youth for 1 week: $300 (most popular option)

  4. Support 1 youth for 4 weeks: $1,200 

  5. Other amount: