The Please Touch Museum in Philadelphia is honored to be part of the
FAO Schwarz Family Foundation Fellowship program for 2007-2009. Below
is information on all four positions available in the program,
including ours. Contact information for each position is included in
the description. A pdf of the job description(s) is available by
e-mail by contacting me at [log in to unmask]
Regards,
Stacey Swigart
Stacey A. Swigart
Curator of Collections
Please Touch Museum(c)
210 N. 21st Street
Philadelphia, PA 19103
(P) 215-963-0667 x3143
(F) 215-963-0424
www.pleasetouchmuseum.org
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FAO SCHWARZ FAMILY FOUNDATION TWO-YEAR FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM FOR RECENT
COLLEGE GRADUATES March 11, 2007
SUMMARY OF FAO SCHWARZ FAMILY FOUNDATION FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM
Unique Opportunity to Provide both Direct Service to Children/Youth
and Work on Special Projects:
The FAO Schwarz Family Foundation Fellowship program is a two-year
fellowship program for recent college graduates designed to train
future leaders in the education and youth development field and to
strengthen high-quality youth-serving organizations. The Fellows will
work within established youth development and educational
organizations providing both direct service to children/youth as well
as initiating new projects, research, or programs that may involve
public policy, organizational replication or sustainability efforts,
or other new initiatives to strengthen the host organization. The
goal is for the Fellows to contribute significantly both through their
direct service (tutoring, mentoring, teaching, etc.) and through their
special project work. At the same time, it is the Foundation's hope
that the Fellows receive experiences, training, and mentorship that
launch them on successful careers as leaders in the youth development
and educational field.
Training and Mentorship Provided by FAO Schwarz Family Foundation:
The Fellows will benefit from having a mentor from the Foundation and
from participating in two training and reflection retreats a year.
These training opportunities, which consist of three-day fall and
spring sessions, will be a signature effort of the Fellowship and will
be designed to ensure that FAO Schwarz Family Foundation Fellows
across several leading organizations can share their experiences and
expertise and benefit from discussions with leading youth development
professionals and experts in organizational development, policy, and
education. The four 2007-09 FAO Schwarz Family Foundation Fellows (who
will be hired by the four host organizations listed below) will form a
nine-person Fellows cohort, sharing ideas and experiences through the
formal training retreats and informal communication with the five
2006-08 FAO Schwarz Family Foundation Fellows who are currently placed
at:
Associated Early Care and Education (Boston)
Boston Children's Museum (Boston)
Building Educated Leaders for Life (Boston)
Children's Literacy Initiative (Philadelphia)
Museum of the City of New York (New York City)
Overview of FAO Schwarz Foundation:
The FAO Schwarz Family Foundation is a modest-sized foundation funded
through ongoing royalty payments from the current owners of the FAO
Schwarz toy store to a foundation established by descendants of the
store's founders and former owners.
Salary and How to Apply:
The Fellows will receive a salary and bonus of $52,000 over the
two-year fellowship plus full health benefits, consisting of the
following: $25,000 salary for the first year; $26,000 salary for the
second year and a $1,000 bonus at the end of the two-year Fellowship
program. Interested graduating college seniors or recent college
graduates should email a resume and cover note to the host
organization(s), whose contact information is listed below. Candidates
may apply directly to more than one host organization. While each host
organization may have a different target start date, all Fellows are
expected to be hired by late summer and begin their service on or
before September 4, 2007.
SUMMARY OF HOST ORGANIZATIONS IN NEW YORK CITY AND PHILADELPHIA
1. BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF AMERICA (Fellow will work in Philadelphia)
To apply, contact:
Joseph Radelet, Ed.D., Vice President for Mentoring Programs
Email: [log in to unmask]
Organizational Overview (www. bbbs.org):
o Founded over 100 years ago, Big Brothers is the largest mentoring
organization, serving 250,000 children in over 5,000 communities
through 425 agencies through community based mentoring, school based
mentoring and mentoring children of prisoners
o Led by an impressive leadership team, the organization has launched
a $180M campaign to grow its programs by focusing on building local
capacity of agencies and by enhancing the stature of the BBBS brand
o 2007 operating budget: $271 M for total organization (national and
agencies); $ 31.5 M for national office
Workplan for FAO Schwarz Family Fellow:
o Direct Service:
Serve as mentor to two children, by spending one afternoon a week
with each "Little" at their school. This work will be done through an
agency (Big Brothers Big Sisters of Southeastern Pennsylvania) located
within a mile of the national office
Participate in the focused effort to recruit more African-American
men to volunteer at Big Brothers Big Sisters.
Participate in the Hispanic Mentoring Initiative, helping agencies
to develop systems and strategies to engage the Latino community in
being involved with Big Brothers Big Sisters, whether as board
members, donors, volunteers, or corporate partners.
Support success of workplace-based mentoring program near national
office through bringing children from a school to Cigna (or another
workplace) and helping that the children have a good experience.
o Special Project Work: Sample projects include:
School-based mentoring roll-out: Based on findings from a major
study on school-based mentoring in spring 2007, support effort to
conduct further testing and develop strategies and programming as a
result of the findings.
Work on focused effort to recruit more African-American men and
Latino community members as volunteers at Big Brothers Big Sisters
(ties into direct service work outlined above)
2. PLEASE TOUCH MUSEUM (Fellow will work in Philadelphia)
To apply, contact:
Stacey A. Swigart, Curator of Collections
Email: [log in to unmask]
Organizational Overview (www. (www. pleasetouchmuseum.org)
o Founded in 1976, Please Touch Museum (PTM) is the first museum in
the country designed for children seven and younger and currently
serves approximately 180,000 visitors each year.
o The museum reaches an additional 5,000 children and families, many
of them low-income and/or at-risk, through its Community Service
Department activity. Their Community Service programs have won several
national awards, including in 2005 the Promising Practice Award.
o At exciting growth phase and planning for expansion and relocation
to Memorial Hall in Fairmount Park (by the end of 2008) which will
give PTM three times more space.
o Operating budget for the FY 2006 was $4.7M; endowment investment of $1.6M
Workplan for Children's Fellow
o Direct Service: Assist with the development of the Play Study Center
by obtaining and providing feedback on desires and needs of the
parents, caregivers, students and scholars and their current uses and
understanding of play.
Gallery Education: The fellow will design, create and implement
specific lesson plans and direct interaction with young visitors on a
regular basis.
KidGlove Program: (working with collection objects) The Fellow
will design a program and conduct it on the gallery floor on a regular
basis.
ACES: (Achievement through Community Service, Education and
Skill-building). ACES is PTM's work based learning, enrichment and
mentoring program for teenagers from inner city Philadelphia high
schools. The Fellow will have the opportunity to directly work with
students on a one on one basis or group basis to explore perspectives
on play and identify possible high school student uses of the Play
Study Center.
Visitor Surveys: The fellow will conduct visitor surveys in the
museum and in the community on topics of play and resources that PTM
can provide.
Community Services Programming: The Fellow will experience play
activity with different community audiences and work with the
Community Programs Manager to develop modules that relay the Please
Touch Museum's value of "learning through play" to diverse
populations. Community programming happens both on and off site.
Off site locations include community recreation centers, family
homeless shelters, child care centers, and schools.
o Project Work: On the organization side of the Play Study Center, the
Fellow will begin a study of play at Please Touch Museum. This
includes creating a timeline of play (outlining the exhibits, events
and programs PTM has developed over thirty years); organize and
maintain current museum resources for play; identify new resources of
play; analyze the effects of play on children at Please Touch Museum.
3. VERA INSTITUTE OF JUSTICE (Fellow will work in New York City)
To apply, contact:
Cyamada Smith, APT Project Analyst and Youth and Community Development
Team Leader
Email: [log in to unmask]
Organizational Overview (www.vera.org/apt)
o The Vera Institute of Justice partners with leaders in government
and civil society to advance independent, evidence-based innovation
and reformthrough research, demonstration projects, and peer-led
learningto enhance the fairness and efficiency of the systems people
depend on for safety and justice. Vera develops innovative, affordable
programs that often grow into self-sustaining organizations.
o Adolescent Portable Therapy (APT) is an innovative mental health and
substance abuse intervention for system-involved youth and families
and is one of Vera's most successful demonstration projects. Based on
an evaluation that demonstrated the impact of the program, APT is now
regarded as a national blueprint for effective adolescent programming.
o In terms of expansion, APT is launching a Youth and Community
Development Initiative designed to build a network of wraparound youth
development programming for the youth and families it serves.
Workplan for Children's Fellow
o Direct Service:
One-on-one mentorship and skill building for 1-2 youth who are
enrolled in the APT program
Direct work with a group of youth enrolled in one or more youth
development projects at APT.
o Project Work:
Develop a new youth development project taking it from the early
planning stages through program launch and piloting. This will entail
developing partnerships with potential host organizations and
employers for the young people enrolled in the program, will
participate in managing the administrative and fiscal aspects of the
program and will collaborate in the development of policies and
procedures manual for this new program.
Program planning, funding development and implementation process
with a new project that the Fellow has a strong hand in creating. One
such potential project that we have informally dubbed the "Re-entry
Peer Mentors" program
The connection between policy and practice will be a theme that will
infuse the teaching and mentoring of the Fellow
4. YEAR UP (Fellow will work in New York City)
To apply, contact:
Dennis Acevedo, Director of Operations and Corporate Apprenticeships
Email: [log in to unmask]
Organizational Overview (www. www.yearup.org)
o Founded in 2000, Year Up believes that a well-designed training and
support program can make an incredible difference in young people's
lives. Its mission is to close the Opportunity Divide by providing
urban young adults with the skills, experience and support that will
empower them to reach their potential through professional careers and
higher education. The intensive one-year program serves low-income
high school graduates and GED recipients between the ages of 18-24
from urban neighborhoods.
o Year Up will serve more than 300 students in 2006 in sites in
Massachusetts, New York, Rhode Island, and Washington D.C. The New
York City program is very new and just began working with young adults
in September 2006.
o Starting with our incoming cohort in March, the class of January
2008, Year Up NYC will expand to a class size of 40 students. Our
following cohort of July 2008 will consist of 65 students. As we grow,
each of our graduates becomes a member of our Alumni Association,
which sponsors events for past graduates, and provides support
relative to job placement, career development, higher education, and
alumni network development.
o Operating budget: 2006 - $542k; 2007 - $1.8M
Workplan for Children's Fellow
o Direct Service: Tutor current Year Up students for Technology
classes as well as for Business Writing classes. This would include
help with classroom assignments and homework, as well as engaging
students to plan appropriate learning activities as directed by our
learning instructors. Additional direct service work will include
co-facilitating interactive group exercises and delivering core
elements of the program in a class setting.
o Project Work: Establishing initial best practices for providing
alumni services and support for our first class of local Year Up NYC
graduates. The Fellow will be able to draw on established practices
across Year Up sites nationally, as well as coordinate services for
our New York site.
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