We are excited to announce the United Black Family Scholarship Foundation has begun its 2020 internship program. On January 11, 2020, we welcomed two aspiring and talented University of California, Santa Cruz sociology students: Tiffany Munoz and Yusra Dawood. We are ever thankful for the assistance of UCSC Professor Megan McDrew and our Resource Development Committee Supervisor Mark Ledbetter, also a UCSC grad, who worked tirelessly with the university’s sociology department to create this opportunity.

The project aims to provide students with an opportunity to gain hands-on experience and job training in the nonprofit sector. In addition, the interns will obtain real-world skills related to donor prospects research, communications, program development, administration of grant procurement, and fundraising for real community projects that make a difference.

Needless to say, we aim to make this project an exemplar of community improvement inside/outside activism. And while our interns become skilled at the organization activity which enables nonprofits to do great work in our communities, we believe it’s important to observe here how society, in general, disregards the potential of incarcerated people like our founder, Ivan Kilgore, who through vision and education, created a multitude of programs that hopefully realize effective funding to provide individuals in underserved communities better options and social and economic stability.

As part of our effort to make this a success, we are reaching out to potential sponsors with hopes that they would sponsor a student by making a tax-deductible donation to cover the expenses related to travel and accommodations for a two-day trip to Oklahoma City, Oklahoma on February 29th and March 1st, 2020 to attend our Nonprofit Coaching & Leadership Conference.

During the Nonprofit Coaching & Leadership Training Conference, guest speaker Glenn E. Martin, who has raised over $75 million dollars in the nonprofit sector and currently is the CEO of GEM trainers, LLC, delivers a successful formula to raise money for nonprofits in order to focus on achieving their goals of positively affecting communities, impacting laws and obtaining national recognition. Inspired by conference sponsor and founder, Ivan represents what Glenn believes, “Those closest to the problem are closest to the solution.”

Notably, Glenn partners with nonprofits from across the United States assisting with fundraising, organizational development, and marketing. A longstanding American criminal justice reform advocate, Glenn has won numerous awards, including the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award, Legal Action Center’s Arthur L. Liman Public Interest Award, and the Citizens Against Recidivism Thurgood Marshall Advocacy Award. Guests attending will gain motivation and leave with a new vision to assist with taking their organization to the next level by learning how to sustain, grow, and build their nonprofit to benefit their communities.

Location: Wyndham Hotel, 2101 South Meridian Avenue, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 73108.

Donate at:

https://charity.gofundme.com/o/en/campaign/united-black-family-scholarship-foundation-internship

For more information please contact us