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Spring is here, which means it’s time for United Way’s annual spring Clothing Drive. Time to clean out your closets and donate your gently-used professional clothing to youth in need. Your clothing donations will provide young job seekers with appropriate attire for job interviews, summer internships and employment. Donated clothing will benefit youth who participate [...]
MatchBridge, United Way’s program that helps local youth find private-sector jobs, is getting ready for the summer hiring season, working hard to recruit both employers and new youth members. Last year, our program matched 184 youth with jobs and paid internships at 58 Bay Area companies. Here’s what employers are saying about MatchBridge: “While it [...]
Did you know most hiring mangers looking for summer employees start as early as February? Become a MatchBridge Member to network with San Francisco employers, hear about awesome job opportunities and get help finding a job! MatchBridge is United Way’s employment program for San Francisco youth that matches young people with entry-level jobs and internships, [...]
On Friday, November 12th, seven associates of McKinsey & Company volunteered at a job-readiness event with MatchBridge , a United Way program that matches young people with entry-level jobs and internships, providing coaching and support throughout the job-search process. McKinsey volunteers worked with MatchBridge’s new youth members on interview skills, , career-interest exploration and resume writing. They also [...]
With the approach of summer, the team at MatchBridge has been very busy placing youth in various kinds of internships and jobs. Last week MatchBridge teamned up with Ghirardelli Chocolate Company to interview 14 candidates to shore up their concessions operations at AT&T Ballpark. After the interviews and a little deliberation, the team from Ghirardelli decided to hire [...]
Last week’s Dress for Success event with Nnamdi Asomugha was a huge success for MatchBridge and the young people that attended. You can read about the event on sfgate’s Get to Work blog as well. At the event, 47 Bay Area youth received professional clothing and accessories, as well as job interview training. This [...]
As we get closer to summer, young people start looking for internships to build skills, enhance their college applications, and to find out what they might want to do (or not do) later in life. We asked Ed Oh, Communications Specialist with MatchBridge, a United Way community project for some helpful tips for young job [...]
Over at MatchBridge, a community project of United Way of the Bay Area, they occasionally post some profiles of the young people they’ve been able to help. As we approach the summer and young people begin looking for employment opportunities we thought it might be nice to share the story about how one member got [...]
United Way’s Matchridge encourages businesses to open their doors and work with young people to enjoy the benefits they can bring to a workplace and to invest in the workforce of tomorrow. Since its inception, MatchBridge has taken every opportunity possible to offer paid internship opportunities to youth in the community including within their own [...]
