WorkReady Summer Programs

Rock to the Future's WorkReady provides hands-on experience learning and creating music and other creative skills during 2-weeks of full-day programming in Kensington or Germantown. Young people learn guitar, drums, bass, or guitar, form bands, write original music and learn music from popular artists, perform live, attend creative workshops like music production and graphic design, and attend other workshops like civic engagement, anti-violence, college and career readiness, and more.

We will only accept youth who we share our code with. Philadelphia Freedom Schools was born out of the Freedom Summer of 1964. It exists to build intellectual, cultural, civic, and political capacity of children and youth in order to make meaningful strides for themselves, their families, their schools, communities and the larger society. For years, it has been apparent that while the mandate of the Freedom School has been to develop in children a love for reading, the Junior Servant Leader Project has taken that concept several steps further.

StartUp EDU, a paid entrepreneurship program for rising 10th - 12th graders. StartUp EDU is an intensive five-week program in which students will gain an entrepreneurial mindset. The program is for students who are passionate about becoming an entrepreneur, growing their personal brand, and setting goals as future business owners.

SEAMAAC’s Hip Hop Heritage summer WorkReady program aims to build the next generation of artists in Philadelphia. Our team of instructors teaches youth ages 13-20 the arts of Hip Hop. H3 is a project-based learning program focusing on graffiti, music production, and photography. Providing an incentivized experience for youth interested in a career in the arts, H3 also focuses on building youth skills, such as communication and leadership through a lens of social justice. Apply Today!

We will only accept youth who we share our code with. Heights Philadelphia is offering various programming to students. Please visit our website at www.heights.org to find our summer opportunities

We will only accept youth who we share our code with. Sunrise of Philadelphia offers Career Exposure and Work Experience opportunities to youth in 6th-12 grade. Participants in 6-8th grade (must be 12 years old before April 30th, 2023) will attend programming at one of our camp locations. Over a 6 week program youth explore careers, post-secondary options, and prepare for high school. Older youth (must be 14 years old before April 30th, 2022) will be placed at various worksites to gain experience and participate in weekly professional development.

seeks to build the individual and collective power of youth to make positive change in their communities. Our program design achieves this through project based learning that is tied to community issues of importance to the youth; that places a heavy emphasis on teamwork and cooperation; that reaches out to community organizations as partners; and that includes technological and creative arts components. Through this process, youth develop the cognitive, social and civic skills and knowledge

This program is currently FULL and not accepting applications. Future Focus - a program of the Intergenerational Center - is a career exploration summer camp at Temple University! Future Focus is for rising 7th, 8th, and 9th graders that provides students with career exposure opportunities as well as hands on experience and project-based learning. Participate in 6 weeks of in-person instruction, group learning, and mentoring experiences with current Temple students on Temple’s campus, all while earning incentives for reaching your goals and milestones.

Freedom Schools Literacy Academy offers summer and afterschool programming to: Provide teaching apprenticeships and access to in-classroom teaching experiences, mentorship and professional development to promising high school students, college students and paraprofessionals. Help increase the literacy skills, phonemic awareness, academic confidence and positive racial identity and belongingness of Black scholars in kindergarten through second grade.

Please join us for the Summer Niche Jobs program! All youth who join our program will receive a combination of financial literacy and internship experiences aligned to their future dream jobs or niches. Youth will learn about investing, banking, and financial planning. Youth will travel to, improve upon, observe, and work for a variety of Philadelphia-based businesses and agencies to explore their future career interests.