Find Your Focus and support Green Works
Written by our Founder, Kate Corwin, Find Your Focus is a desk reference containing fifty quick tips to improve your focus and maximize your brain power. It is beautifully designed with watercolors and simple illustrations. Choose a card, read both sides, and follow the instructions that day. You’ll…
Evaluation of our Excelerate and Internship program
We just received the report from Dr. Connie Campbell on her evaluation of our Excelerate class graduates and the results are amazing. Excelerate Assessment The highlights include: The students’ workforce products required for professional career development or college scholarship competition significantly increased. (resume, LinkedIn account,…
Internship Campaign Update
We have great news! Thanks to our loyal supporters, we surpassed our internship campaign goal, and raised $16,000 to support our interns and their future. Thanks to everyone who contributed, and helped us spread the word.
Keyaira’s Internship at the Missouri Department of Conservation
Keyaira earned a Green Works summer internship at the Missouri Department of Conservation. Keyaira plans to study early childhood education.
Roxana’s Internship at the Kansas City University of Medicine and Biosciences
Roxana earned a Green Works summer internship at the Kansas City University of Medicine and Biosciences. Roxana is going to college in the fall and planning a career in biochemistry.
Shahid’s Internship at KCPT
Shahid earned a Green Works summer internship at KCPT. Shahid is going to college in the fall and planning a career in cyber security.
Jose’s Internship at SquareOneStudio
Jose earned a Green Works summer internship at SquareOneStudios this summer. After graduation Jose plans a career in the woodworking industry.
New Funding from Spire
We’re excited to announce that Spire has just awarded Green Works a grant for operational funding. Spire is the new company name for the former Missouri Gas Energy. Thanks Spire for supporting our students and Kansas City’s future young leaders!
Local news covers our job site visit to Olsson Associates
Last week Olsson Associates hosted our Green Works’ Excelerate students for a job site visit where the students had the opportunity to talk to Olsson employees, tour their offices, and try their hand at designing bike routes from midtown to the River Market. Shayla Patrick…
Caring for Birds Community Education
We had another full house on Saturday March 10th for our community education program called Caring for Birds. Speakers Paige Witek from the Missouri River Bird Observatory and Kimberly Hess from Lakeside Nature Center told us about their work and how to help birds. (Don’t…