THE ONE LESS FOUNDATION Overview
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Phone: 215-278-4400
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Target demographics: under-served children and adults
Someone who had 3 hours of volunteer time could: We prefer consistency with our volunteers as our programs involve long time involvement. If you can volunteer 1 hour per week, you could be a mentor, life coach or facilitator of a program at a school or other partner organization
Geographic areas served: Philadelphia, PA USA
Programs: Financial Literacy & Capability for adults and students, Adult Life Coaching and Youth Mentoring. We also have programs that are taught in local schools as a regular class.
Mission:
The One Less Foundation is dedicated to providing assistance, through financial education and one-on-one mentoring, to under-served individuals and families that allow them to gain the skills necessary to lift themselves out of poverty.
Results:
We created the Discovery Program which enables us to partner with schools and provide our youth mentoring services directly to students during school hours. We currently partner with three school and have three other schools on a waiting list.
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AnkurKhanna
09/20/13
I have volunteered with the One Less Foundation for a few months now and continue to be inspired every day by the amazing work of Ingrid Shepard, as well as every single client at the Philadelphia shelters that are served by her organization. The organization is truly breaking the mold of the ...
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