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Tim Cohen-Mitchell, M.Ed. | CEO & Founder email Tim Tim began working with youth in 1986 in Cork City, Ireland while researching his undergraduate honor's thesis, Unemployed or Unemployable? Joblessness Amongst Disadvantaged Young Men. In 1987, he founded a health clinic in remote Mkushi, Zambia, which has since grown into a small hospital. From 1988 to 1993, Tim founded and managed Ajabu African Arts, a youth handicrafts fair trade co-op in Nairobi, Kenya and Amherst, MA. From 1994-1997, he served as an AmeriCorps*VISTA and project manager at Franklin County Community Development Corporation in Greenfield, MA where he helped local artisans & specialty food producers launch a retail outlet; organized peer-lending groups; piloted a welfare-to-work co-op business training program, and co-founded the community currency, Valley Dollars, and trading network issuer, the Valley Trade Connection. Tim began working in Orange in 1997 as a community organizer at Orange Revitalization Partnership, where he coordinated the restoration of Memorial Park, volunteer recognition, summer youth festivals, and a teen center. Tim founded YES at ORP in 1998. A 1999 winner of the national 'Teacher of the Year' award by the Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship Tim was also trained by his mentor and NFTE founder, Steve Mariotti, as part of NFTE's first team of certified teacher trainers. An honors graduate of Vermont Academy, Tim holds a BA, cum laude, in anthropology, an M.Ed., in community development education, and is currently completing his doctoral dissertation on youth entrepreneurship education, all at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He is author of numerous articles, including Community Currencies at a Crossroads: New Ways Forward and the book, Journey of Dreams: A Teenager's Life in Kenya, and co-author, with Tony Savdié, of Local Currencies in Community Development Center for International Education). A former nationally-ranked BMX and road racing cyclist and Massachusetts native, Tim has lived in Orange since 2004.
Bobby Falco-Killoran | Manager, Phil Harmonix Studio
Katie Marble | Manager, YES BizCenter
Jenessa Kupcho | Promoter, BizVenture
Kelly Jones, Jones & Erviti | Bookkeeper Adjunct Faculty Amber Ortiz Jerry Whaland (YES '99)
Commonwealth Corps
College Interns
Community Service Interns
Past Staff Members
Faculty
Contractors
Greenfield AmeriCorps Program
Mt. Wachusett Community College AmeriCorps Program
Orange Jobs for Youth Program
Summer Youth Employment & Training Program, WIA
Cooperative Education, Franklin County Technical School
Senior AIDE Program
Welfare-to-Work Program
Federal Work-Study Program, UMASS, Amherst
Federal Work-Study Program, Greenfield Community College
Graduate Research Assistants, UMASS, Amherst
Community Scholars Program, Mt. Wachusett Community College
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