Business Mentoring Youth Program (BMY)
As one of the many programs that make up WorkReady Philadelphia, AAMP is a part of an ongoing citywide effort to build a solid workforce for our region. The purpose of BMY is to create relationships where mentoring pairs share information and experiences to help students develop life skills, appreciate the value of education, understand how the working world operates, solve problems and achieve mutually agreed upon goals.
Greater Philadelphia Urban Coalition Youth Program
Sponsored by the Summer Youth Works Program, AAMP facilitates workforce development training for Philadelphia high school students. Twenty students are trained annually to become Junior Tour Guides and program managers for the Passport to Culture: Summer Youth Empowerment Program. The Education department also facilitates a collaborative summer project with the students.
Passport to Culture: Summer Youth Empowerment Program – July and August
Designed to complement our exhibits, summer programs offer tours, interdisciplinary arts activities, African dance and music workshops, and a journey to historic moments in the rich cultural history of the people of Africa and the Diaspora through storytelling.
Philadelphia Prison System Inmate Art Program
A reentry initiative that serves to expose promising inmate artists to the larger community; promoting inmate employment opportunities; assisting in developing increased self-esteem and cultivation of the talents of inmates, as well as providing inmates with an immediate opportunity to profit from their talents.
Read Me Now Scavenger Hunt
This children's book club provides a new approach to learning about African American history and culture. Participants focus on the literary contributions of various African American authors through an exploration of the genres of poetry, fiction, non-fiction, music and spoken word. Target audience: children in homeless shelters.
Temple University
- Pan African Studies Community Education Program (PASCEP): Community partnership includes annual Black Male Development Symposium and East Coast Comic Convention
- Temple University Community Education Center: Community Partnership provides cultural component for Saturday programming.
Museum Loan Network (MLN) –
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The MLN Directory provides on-line access to the civil rights photographs in the Jack T. Franklin Collection for other museums, in addition to a wide range of scholars and students in the fields of American History, American Studies and African American Studies as well as to the general researcher