Looking for a Paid, Unique Leadership Experience? Become an ACLC!

Mile High Youth Corps is full of diverse job opportunities in order for it to run smoothly as a growing nonprofit. MHYC requires folks who can work in management, finance, program development, employee recruitment, marketing, direct conservation service and more. One program exists to blend the direct service with the operations of a nonprofit: the [...]

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Composting Comes To MHYC!

The ACLC program involves many components. One of these components is the capstone project we work on throughout the year. The group I am involved with, Adriana Lopez, Allison Boese and myself decided to bring composting to MHYC. We began back in March and have been working hard to get this program off the ground. [...]

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Moving Up the MHYC Ladder

Summer is a little over half way through and our crews have gotten into a comfortable groove on the project sites. A lot of this is due to their crew leaders who have done this work before at MHYC. Andrew Kennedy, Brendan Michaud and Signe Hawley were Corpsmembers last year and came back to be [...]

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Mile High Youth Corps, this is Therese/Karol…

“Hi, how can I help you?” is usually the first thing you hear when you walk through the door of one of the Mile High Youth Corps locations. Our lovely Corpsmembrs Therese Inman and Karol Quagliato are the wonderful faces you first see when entering our building to interview, inquire about jobs or go to [...]

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YouthBuild USA: The Conference of Young Leaders

Two of our YouthBuild Corpsmembers attended the YouthBuild National Youth Leaders Conference in Washington, D.C. this month. Kenny Luckes and Sharmine Chapman joined a little more than 100 other delegates from other programs across the nation to discuss the national YouthBuild movement. Participants in the conference go to workshops and forums that focus on career [...]

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Mile High Youth Corps Hosts Visitors from South Africa

Last week at Mile High Youth Corps we had some very exciting visitors. We were fortunate enough to meet four individuals from South Africa who are focused on developing youth in their country. As part of the International Visitor Leadership Program these individuals sat down at our headquarters office and listened in about how we [...]

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End of Energy Term

Sitting in the reception room at Canosa I remember waiting for my first interview to be a member on the energy crew. I waited anxiously, picking off nail polish and flipping through old National Geographics that someday would be turned into collages representing “who I am” or “leadership looks like this”. In other words, I [...]

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