Bags and bags of gift wrapped accessories (ties, belts, scarves, jewelry & more) collected from our awesome Successories Drive w/ Target Burlington were delivered to Bucks County Housing Group!
BCHG provides services to help homeless and low-medium income families attain permanent housing and financial security.
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May 18 -- BE Successories Drives are coordinated campaigns to collect business attire for older teens preparing for transition to adulthood. It's a great way for companies, professional organizations, or associations to help chart a new path for ambitious young adults in need.
A team of awesome volunteers at Target in Burlington, NJ led a drive collecting a wide array of belts, ties, scarves, jewelry, handbags, and padfolios. Beyond Expectations arrived at the location to participate in the culmination and gift wrapping of all the items!
Items will be donated to older teens in a local group homes. Our goal is to provide the accessories for interviews and professional events to help them enter the room with just a bit more confidence...
Contact Simone Jarvis, Community Relations and Sponsorships Manager, at simone@beyondexp.net or 866-321-6777 to learn more about hosting your own Successories Drive.
March 25 -- A few of our phenomenal advanced students completed our Spring 2016 Television Studio Production Workshop as they produced and taped three original segments in front of a live studio audience at Riverview Television Studios!
The segments included an Interviewing Tips for Young Professionals piece conducted with volunteers from the retail industry. It was followed by a simulated New Jersey Reality Fair, an event that is organized across the state by The New Jersey Credit Union League offering fun, experiential opportunities for high school students to learn about managing their personal finances.
Beyond Expectations has plans to continue discussions with the NJ Credit Unions to consider additional opportunities to assist with more fairs as well as volunteer recruitment.
Our sincere appreciation to all of the wonderful volunteers who spent their day with us ... participating in the studio audience, as well as the professionals from the retail industries and Credit Unions who dedicated your time and expertise.
Special thanks to Douglas Gorti, Simone Jarvis, Elizabeth Olson, Gary Chizmadia, Marissa Anema, Cindy Rein-Zima, and The O League.
BE has touched the lives of thousands of youth and families across the tri-state area since its inception in 1999 through Media Education and Service Leadership. We're collaborating with one of our Burlington County locations, Making Visions Possible Program (MVP), where we launched our very first film program nearly a decade ago!
Over the years, BE's service leadership projects have brought together community organizations with corporations to transform rooms in shelters for runaway youth, restoration and beautification of historical sites, and building desks from scratch for Media Labs where computer instruction is provided to youth and seniors.
MVP impacts students and families by providing mental health, case management, academic assistance, healthy youth development programming and other community service initiatives. 2016 also marks 10 years of partnership between MVP and Willingboro High School.
To honor this milestone anniversary, we will work collectively to create a Serenity Garden to serve as a commemorative space for students and their families to use as a safe haven and oasis for peace and tranquility.
The design was inspired by a few talented students in conjunction with Home Depot leadership, making this another truly participatory initiative.
Stay tuned ...
MVP is a partnership between Willingboro School District, EIRC, and DFCP’s Officeof School-Linked Services.
