Empowering youth through technology: how monday.com and Canva help charities like Beat the Streets
Our mission at Beat the Streets is to provide opportunities for sports and education to low-income youth in the Greater Toronto area to encourage personal growth and development. Thanks to the generosity of companies like monday.com and Canva, who provide free subscriptions to their software for charities, we are able to build our capacity to expand our impact and reach even more youth in our community.
Streamlining Workflows with monday.com
With monday.com, we have streamlined our workflows, increased productivity, and stayed organized. This has allowed us to focus more on our core mission of empowering youth through our wrestling and academic support programs. The platform has been invaluable in helping us manage projects, track progress, and collaborate efficiently.
Creating Stunning Visual Content with Canva.com
Canva has also been an invaluable resource for us, enabling us to create stunning visual content without the need for expensive software or professional design skills. This has helped us promote our programs and events and reach a wider audience. Even youth in our employment program, Work It, have learned basic design skills thanks to Canva.com, opening up new opportunities for them in the job market.
Work It: Employment Readiness Programs for Youth
Our Work It program is designed to provide employment readiness training to youth in our community. This program teaches youth valuable skills such as resume writing, job interview preparation, and workplace communication. With the help of monday.com and Canva, we have provided even more resources and training opportunities to our Work It participants.
Impact and Gratitude
The impact of monday.com and Canva on our organization cannot be overstated. These companies have provided invaluable resources that have helped us expand our reach and deliver more sports, resilience-building and life skills programs for low-income youth in the Greater Toronto Area. We are incredibly grateful for their support and commitment to positively impacting the world and encouraging healthy bodies and minds.
About monday.com
"monday.com is a powerful, yet flexible project management software tool that centralizes all your workflows and processes into one, unified platform. With monday.com, you can plan, track, and deliver projects of all sizes, from small marketing campaigns to large construction projects and everything in between. Our visual, customizable interface is designed to help you manage your tasks and projects with ease, so you can focus on what matters most."
About Canva.com
"Canva is a graphic design platform that allows users to create social media graphics, presentations, posters, documents, and other visual content. It is available on web and mobile, and integrates millions of images, fonts, templates, and illustrations. Users can choose from many professionally designed templates and edit the designs and upload their own photos through a drag-and-drop interface. The platform is free to use, and users can pay for additional features like premium images, and more."
About Beat the Streets:
At Beat the Streets, our mission is to advance the education of low-income children and youth in the Greater Toronto Area through fun and unique sports, life skills, and employment-based development programs. Since 2015, we have served over 28,000 young individuals through our Wrestle 4 Fun, Level Up, You Grow Girl, Work It (Summer Jobs), and Volunteer programs, providing them opportunities to develop their physical, mental, and social well-being. We believe in empowering the next generation by breaking down barriers and creating pathways to success.
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Join us in making a difference by supporting our cause and learning more about how you can contribute to the education and growth of children and youth in need. Together, we can shape a brighter future for all.
