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HELP LI WORKS CONTINUE TO HELP YOU!!!
Due to funding challenges, LI Works is in jeopardy of closing our doors in May 2009. That will end the 10 years of collaboration between the business and educational communities (kindergarten through graduate school) and workforce readiness programs across the region including:
Program Highlights
15,000 students and 1,700 businesses who've met at our Internship Fairs/ Website database
70 districts with School-Business Advisory Boards
5,200 Speakers Bureau speaking engagements
9 School Districts hosting National Career Academies
1000's at Business/Parent/Student seminars
Superintendent-College President Partnership
Disability Conference transitioning from High School to College
LI College Inform
Workforce Readiness alignment
Visit www.liworks.org to see several things that you can do NOW!
Hot off the Press --Appearing in Newsday, 4/13/09: Staffers at the Melville-based Long Island Works Coalition, who have arranged thousands of student work internships over the past decade, fear they soon may be seeking new jobs themselves. The complete article can be viewed at:
http://www.newsday.com/news/printedition/longisland/ny-liwork1312641931apr12,0,5838591.story
LI Works appeared on Monday evening, 4/13 on TV - Chann el 2, TV 55
We will not end our organization's existence without a good fight. Join us to make the changes so necessary to provide relevance for our Long Island students and connections for our Long Island companies to their future workforce. We invest heavily in education. How can we allow our investment to walk out the door to other regions in the country? We all know the challenges that face us on Long Island. But we also know the talent and intelligence we have here.
Program Highlights
15,000 students and 1,700 businesses who've met at our Internship Fairs/ Website database
70 districts with School-Business Advisory Boards
5,200 Speakers Bureau speaking engagements
9 School Districts hosting National Career Academies
1000's at Business/Parent/Student seminars
Superintendent-College President Partnership
Disability Conference transitioning from High School to College
LI College Inform
Workforce Readiness alignment
Visit www.liworks.org to see several things that you can do NOW!
Hot off the Press --Appearing in Newsday, 4/13/09: Staffers at the Melville-based Long Island Works Coalition, who have arranged thousands of student work internships over the past decade, fear they soon may be seeking new jobs themselves. The complete article can be viewed at:
http://www.newsday.com/news/printedition/longisland/ny-liwork1312641931apr12,0,5838591.story
LI Works appeared on Monday evening, 4/13 on TV - Chann el 2, TV 55
We will not end our organization's existence without a good fight. Join us to make the changes so necessary to provide relevance for our Long Island students and connections for our Long Island companies to their future workforce. We invest heavily in education. How can we allow our investment to walk out the door to other regions in the country? We all know the challenges that face us on Long Island. But we also know the talent and intelligence we have here.
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Comment by Lisa M. Strahs-Lorenc on April 15, 2009 at 12:47pm
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The bottom line is that there is no other organization that does the kind of regional work that we do. It will be up to each district to continue this work. Gone will be the regional internship connection fair we do, the regional website database we offer, career academies and their connection to Ford Motor Company Fund, the speakers bureau, the superintendent-college president partnership, etc.
Know that we have not given up. We are hoping for a grassroots effort to keep us going because of the good work we have done and are continuing to do. Unfortunately, we just need some funding to do it. If everyone realizes that they can become empowered and make a difference, through their small donations, letter writing to public officials and blasts to all of their networks, then we will survive. Just think: if everyone donated $10, we wouldn't have any problems with funding. Time for everyone to get involved. These students are Long Island's future workforce. They are our children. We have a huge investment in their future. Use all of your contacts, connections and networks. We can do this. We will fight to the very end, if that's what it takes to continue the work we started!
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Comment by Blanca Duarte Martini on April 15, 2009 at 8:18am
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Hi Lisa, I have a concern about what will happen to programs that you have begun with districts if you are NOT funded. Will they disappear? What about the Business coalitions you have worked so hard to develop?
Can you discuss some of those scenarios to give some of us a better picture of how involved you are with districts? I think that will help.
Thank you for all your hard work and for what you do.
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