Ringing in the New Year

UrbanFUTURE will be ringing in the New Year this coming Monday. Why are we celebrating the New Year at the start of August? Because it will mark the start of the 2010-11 fiscal year, which comes with great anticipation and excitement.

To kick of the New Year, UrbanFUTURE will be welcoming 9 new program staff members to our ranks. This group of very talented individuals come from AmeriCorps, Teach for America and Jesuit Volunteer Corps. We have former school teachers and camp directors. Some of the new program staff will be replacing staff at Fanning and others will be headed to expansion sites to begin the acculturation process with parents, teachers and students.

As part of the New Year "festivities", there will be a staff retreat in Perryville, Missouri. With the near doubling of our staff, this will be a great opportunity for people to get to know one another and to set the tone as as staff for the entire year. A big focus of the retreat will be on leadership and helping each staff member grow as a leader during the year.

We are looking forward to the best year UrbanFUTURE has ever had in 2010-11. We hope you share our enthusiasm for the upcoming year, and we hope to see many old and new faces this fall as programming gets under way.