CommonPod Queens
16 episodes - English - Latest episode: 2 days ago -Commonpoint is a social services organization dedicated to sustaining and enhancing the quality of individual, family and communal life through services to people of all ages, ability levels, stages of life and backgrounds.
CommonPod Queens is a podcast featuring the many voices of Commonpoint and its stakeholders. Throughout the episodes, we will provide and discuss agency and community updates.
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Episodes
Ladders For Leaders "Internships with Impact" - Mushfiq Milan
July 12, 2024 19:39 - 13 minutes - 10.4 MBThe CommonPod Queens Podcast is back with our special series "Internships with Impact", working with the Commonpoint Ladders for Leaders (L4L) youth employment program! Throughout the Internships with Impact Podcast, we will be discussing the experiences of the ambitious students who participated in our program and the amazing employers we have partnered with. This week, we had the pleasure of speaking with Mushfiq Milan. Tune in to hear how the Ladders for Leaders program helped him ...
Ladders For Leaders "Internships with Impact" - Samama Moontaha
February 26, 2024 15:58 - 16 minutes - 15.1 MBThe CommonPod Queens Podcast is back with our special series "Internships with Impact", working with the Commonpoint Queens Ladders for Leaders (L4L) youth employment program! Throughout the Internships with Impact Podcast, we will be discussing the experiences of the ambitious students who participated in our program and the amazing employers we have partnered with. This week, we had a conversation with Samama Moontaha, who has been actively engaged with Ladders for Leaders since 2020...
Ladders For Leaders "Internships with Impact" - Yusuf Zafar
January 03, 2024 16:51 - 7 minutes - 6.84 MBThe CommonPod Queens Podcast is back with our special series "Internships with Impact", working with the Commonpoint Queens Ladders for Leaders (L4L) youth employment program! Throughout the Internships with Impact Podcast, we will be discussing the experiences of the ambitious students who participated in our program and the amazing employers we have partnered with. This week, we spoke with Yusuf Zafar who had the opportunity to work at The Carlyle, a Rosewood Hotel last summer. His inte...
Ladders For Leaders "Internships with Impact" - Brooke Harris
April 29, 2021 18:54 - 6 minutes - 6.05 MBThe CommonPod Queens Podcast has a Special Series, working with the Commonpoint Queens Ladders for Leaders (L4L) youth employment program! Throughout the Internships with Impact Podcast, we will be discussing the experiences of the ambitious students who participated in our program and the amazing employers we have partnered with. As a result of the Covid-19 pandemic, the Ladders for Leaders program was cancelled in 2020, leaving over 500 NYC students without a summer internship. Through a ...
Ladders For Leaders "Internships with Impact" - Tymira Holman
March 11, 2021 17:15 - 13 minutes - 11.3 MBThe CommonPod Queens Podcast has a Special Series, working with the Commonpoint Queens Ladders for Leaders (L4L) youth employment program! Throughout the Internships with Impact Podcast, we will be discussing the experiences of the ambitious students who participated in our program and the amazing employers we have partnered with. In 2019, Tymira Holman participated in her second internship with Ladders for Leaders at the law firm, Goldfarb & Fleece LLP. By the end of her summer with the fi...
Ladders For Leaders "Internships with Impact" - Jeremy Espinoza
February 23, 2021 17:55 - 14 minutes - 8.24 MBThe CommonPod Queens Podcast has a Special Series, working with the Commonpoint Queens Ladders for Leaders (L4L) youth employment program! Throughout the Internships with Impact Podcast, we will be discussing the experiences of the ambitious students who participated in our program and the amazing employers we have partnered with. As a result of the Covid-19 pandemic, the Ladders for Leaders program was cancelled in 2020. This left many New York City youth without a summer internship experi...
Ladders For Leaders "Internships with Impact" - Noreen Mohsin
February 05, 2021 21:29 - 10 minutes - 9.98 MBThe CommonPod Queens Podcast has a Special Series, working with the Commonpoint Queens Ladders for Leaders (L4L) youth employment program! Throughout the Internships with Impact Podcast, we will be discussing the experiences of the ambitious students who participated in our program and the amazing employers we have partnered with. In this episode, we sat down (virtually!) with one of our veteran participants, Noreen Mohsin. Currently, Noreen is a senior at the University of Pennsylvania and...
Ladders For Leaders "Internships with Impact" - Leticia Antwi
January 21, 2021 21:16 - 17 minutes - 9.9 MBThe CommonPod Queens Podcast has a Special Series, working with the Commonpoint Queens Ladders for Leaders (L4L) youth employment program! Throughout the Internships with Impact Podcast, we will be discussing the experiences of the ambitious students who participated in our program and the amazing employers we have partnered with. For the third episode, we interviewed one of our former participants, Leticia Antwi. Throughout her time with Ladders for Leaders, Leticia has interned at a law f...
Ladders For Leaders "Internships with Impact" - Zakia Abraham
January 04, 2021 17:57 - 11 minutes - 11 MBThe CommonPod Queens Podcast has a Special Series, working with the Commonpoint Queens Ladders for Leaders (L4L) youth employment program! Throughout the Internships with Impact Podcast, we will be discussing the experiences of the ambitious students who participated in our program and the amazing employers we have partnered with. For the second episode of Internships with Impact, we interviewed Zakia Abraham. Zakia is currently a part-time job placement assistant with the Ladders for Leade...
Ladders For Leaders "Intern with Impact" - Yaakov Spraragen
December 18, 2020 21:18 - 7 minutes - 3.03 MBThe CommonPod Queens Podcast has a Special Series, working with the Commonpoint Queens Ladders for Leaders (L4L) youth employment program! Throughout the Internships with Impact Podcast, we will be discussing the experiences of the ambitious students who participated in our program and the amazing employers we have partnered with. For the first episode of Internships with Impact, we interviewed one of our alumni participants, Yaakov Spraragen. Yaakov is currently a senior at Baruch College...
Ladders For Leaders "Internships with Impact" - Yaakov Spraragen
December 18, 2020 21:18 - 7 minutes - 3.03 MBThe CommonPod Queens Podcast has a Special Series, working with the Commonpoint Queens Ladders for Leaders (L4L) youth employment program! Throughout the Internships with Impact Podcast, we will be discussing the experiences of the ambitious students who participated in our program and the amazing employers we have partnered with. For the first episode of Internships with Impact, we interviewed one of our alumni participants, Yaakov Spraragen. Yaakov is currently a senior at Baruch College...
Episode 5 - Health and Wellness during a Pandemic with Adam Ostroff
November 16, 2020 16:33 - 37 minutes - 14.7 MBWith a Fitness Center and Indoor Pool in Forest Hills, youth sports and gymnastics programs in Forest Hills and Little Neck for children as young as 6-months up to teenage years in multiple locations, and group exercise classes for all ages - both virtual and in person - Commonpoint Queens Health and Wellness programs offers something for everyone. For episode five of the CommonPod Queens Podcast, we were joined by Adam Ostroff, Senior Director of Health and Wellness programs, to discuss th...
Episode 4 - Voting Information with Andy Gavora
October 28, 2020 16:19 - 15 minutes - 6.18 MBIn this bonus episode in honor of Election Day, Andy Gavora, Program Coordinator, High School & College Success, shares some helpful tips about voting. - If you're voting absentee, mail it back ASAP (with 2 stamps) or drop it off at any early voting site or the Board of Elections. You can track your absentee ballot at nycabsentee.com/tracking. - You can still vote in person if you've requested an absentee ballot. - Early voting has begun and runs through November 1! You early voting sit...
Episode 3 - The Workforce Hub with Brynn McCormick
October 23, 2020 22:03 - 28 minutes - 15.7 MBOn October 6th, in partnership with UJA-Federation of New-York, Commonpoint Queens opened the Queens Hub, a new 9,600-square-foot social service center that will offer employment resources, social services, and access to food in Elmhurst, Queens. For episode three of the CommonPod Podcast, we were joined by Brynn McCormick, Assistant Vice President of Adult Workforce programs, to discuss what the opening of The Hub means for our community, all of the services that are being offered (and ...
Episode 2: Social Impact with Chief Program Officer, Greg Rideout
July 16, 2020 17:07 - 22 minutes - 20.8 MBChief Program Officer Greg Rideout discusses the impact that organizations like Commonpoint Queens have on the community at large.
Episode 1 - Danielle Ellman
June 30, 2020 20:33 - 24 minutes - 23.1 MBCommonpoint Queens CEO Danielle Ellman discusses the organization's response to the COVID-19 pandemic.