Philadelphia
LIFT-Philadelphia, North Office
c/o OIC Building, 4th Floor
1231 North Broad Street
Philadelphia, PA 19122
Phone: (215) 765-3430
Fax: (215) 765-3431
LIFT-Philadelphia, West Office
203 S. 60th Street
Philadelphia, PA 19139
Phone: (215) 474-1807
Fax: (215) 474-1584
Interested in volunteering?
PHILADELPHIA VOLUNTEERS
LIFT-Philadelphia recruits volunteers from the University of Pennsylvania, Temple University, Drexel University, Messiah College, St. Joseph’s University, and LaSalle University. Volunteers come from a variety of backgrounds, as well as a broad range of academic majors including Accounting, Sociology, Marketing, Biology, Urban Studies, and Hospitality Management.
Volunteers receive extensive training at the beginning of their service term and complete a minimum of 10 hours of shadowing prior to independent client service; additionally, volunteers attend weekly ongoing trainings throughout the academic year to improve their service delivery. They are required to dedicate three to ten hours per week to client service. LIFT-Philadelphia also provides additional leadership opportunities through its Student Director positions and leadership teams. Specific areas for managerial roles include community outreach, fundraising, client service supervision, and training.
VOLUNTEERS
Trang Pham
Location: Philadelphia
Affiliation: Temple University
Trang Pham has risen among the ranks of LIFT-Philadelphia volunteers at a lightning-fast pace. After discovering LIFT at a service fair at Temple University, Trang, then a freshman, immediately signed up to volunteer and was so taken with her work that she applied to become a Student Director within the first several months of her service. Since then, her Site Coordinators have deemed her one of the major leaders in the office and her fellow volunteers consistently rely on her expertise—and Trang is only a sophomore at Temple University.
Katie Sanders
Location: Philadelphia
Affiliation: University of Pennsylvania
In her first days as a freshman at the University of Pennsylvania, Katie Sanders participated in PennCORP, the university's pre-orientation program where incoming students explore issues related to urban health, education and poverty in West Philadelphia. After touring LIFT-Philadelphia’s office and hearing from volunteer Mark Pan about his experience, Katie was hooked.
