CRIB
The meaning of the letters in "C.R.I.B"
Communities Responding In Belief
The organizational structure of Hopeworks that identifies their profit status.
What is non-profit organization?
A digital deposit service that administration sets up for trainees and interns without bank accounts.
What are Rapid Pay Cards?
The department responsible for ensuring our business internships have client work to do.
What is Business and Marketing?
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The maximum length a resident can live in the CRIB.
What is two years?
What types of activities does the fundraising team organize?
Fundraising events
What is the primary purpose of RapidPay cards set up by the HR department?
To ensure all trainees receive their payments
The alternative responsibility of the Business and Marketing team besides business relations.
What is marketing Hopeworks through social media and organized events?
This eager young lady walked in looking for a tour.
Here’s some of what’s discussed with her:
“I'm just here looking for employment cause I just finished high school and I want some experience before enrolling into college.”
"I live in Camden, but I cycle through Philly a lot too so I can be in Kensington to work here."
"I ain't had a crib in a minute, so I just been house hopping. Do yall have any housing programs though?"
Are there any specific departments she’d care about?
the C.R.I.B / Community Partnerships
The main benefit of the CRIB program.
What is rent reimbursement?
The primary responsibility of the fundraising team at Hopeworks.
Coordinating fundraising initiatives and events, and maintaining business relationships with donors.
What are the location names of the sites that administration is responsible for managing?
The Kensington and Camden locations.
Some of the platforms that Hopeworks markets the program and their services through.
What are LinkedIn, Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter?
A professional young lady walked in tour-ready!
Here’s a little bit of what's discussed in the tour:
“I am a grant management specialist for the city!”
“My team offers grants to nonprofit organizations."
“We love the youth development industry, and the work that Hopeworks does for the community.”
What department would be important to someone like her?
Fundraising
Eligibility criteria for the CRIB.
What is being 18 or older, having stable income, and being approved by a CRIB Manager?
What are three examples of some of the resources fundraising collects for organizational support purposes?
Monetary donations like grants, phyiscal resources like computers, and/or program-related supplies that assist with supporting trainees.
What is one example of back-end administrative work mentioned?
Managing payroll or inventory
One of the professional benefits of doing client work for the business internships.
What is being able to add certain clients on your resume as a professional network connection?
This inquisitive young man walked in looking learn about Hopeworks. Here’s what yall talked about:
"Yeah my brother referred me here, he said it'd be a good opportunity to set me up for success."
"I don't got a bank 'cause I just been making cash doing what I do right now. Yall do paper checks here?"
"Speaking of banks, how do I even get one? I just turned 18 so I'm not too sure how to."
Is there any particular department worth mentioning to him?
Administration/Community Partnetships
What are some of the living skills that residents develop while living in the CRIB?
Living skills such as independence, household management, cooking, and paying rent are all learned in the CRIB.
What does the fundraising team do with the grants and donations it collects?
Manage them to ensure they are used to support Hopeworks' initiatives like supply upgrades and organizational expansions.
Funtions that the administration department handle.
What is Human Resources, Inventory, and Payroll?
How does the Business and Marketing team directly impacts business internship operations?
By ensuring a steady flow of client work for interns which allows Hopeworks to hire more interns.
This suited gentleman walked in looking for a tour. Here are some of the interests he expressed during the tour:
“I do business relations for a tech organization.”
“We have a great relationship with Hopeworks.”
“We are short-staffed amid a web dev project we’re doing & I was recently tasked to find a team for it.”
Is there a specific department you would refer him to?
Business & Marketing