Friends Of CNM

Friends Of CNM (hereinafter, the Friends) is a non-government non-political non-religious group of legal entities, every of which is called a CNM friend, that support the Career Network Ministry (also known by its acronym CNM).

Organizational recitals

The Friends themselves are not a legal entity; however, Educaship Alliance LLC, which is one of CNM friends, acts as the commercial arm of the Friends. Currently, developments of the Friends occur under CNM Cloud Project and WorldOpp Project.

Purposes

The Friends' purposes are to:

1. Discover, analyze, and design new services related to education, workforce development, and recruitment;
2. Enhance existing services of CNM; as well as
3. Launch and support those services that are not currently offered by the CNM to its patrons (hereinafter, the Patrons); most importantly, these services utilize CNM Cloud.

Participating members

1. Educaship Alliance LLC.
2. Bracka School.
3. Belarusian Community Center.
4. The Economic Group.

Services

Main wikipage: Careerprise service

Career services

Main wikipage: Careerprise

Careerprise is the one-stop hub for career services that is brought to the general public by the Friends. Using CNM Cloud, the Friends intends to connect the Patrons to those career service providers, that services fit the Patrons' needs. Some of the services, such as online career administration education, shall be offered at no cost to the Patrons.

In addition, Educaship Alliance LLC, which is one of CNM friends, is hiring CNM fellows on a permanent basis.

Entrepreneurial fellowship

Main wikipage: WorldOpp

WorldOpp is the programme to support entrepreneurs worldwide commercially through WorldOpp Prime and create jobs for the vulnerable through WorldOpp for the Vulnerable, that is brought to the general public by the Friends. The programme provides its fellows with (a) entrepreneurship education through Bracka Leadership Academy and (b) funding for startup businesses. The official website of the programme is WorldOpp.org.

Dual education

Main wikipage: Educaship

Educaship is the program that combines liberal education, career administration, and apprenticeship, and is brought to the general public by the Friends. The length of the program is four or more years. Its graduates receive professional experience and other employable credentials. The costs associated with the program are similar to college tuition costs.

Structure

The Friends are divided in three departments: (a) Community Board, (b) Fellow Staff, and (c) Opplet incubators.

Team

Main wikipage: Careerprise Team

Careers at the Friends

Currently, Educaship Alliance LLC hires everyone who is able to accomplish the following steps:

1. Thou shalt not:
   • Send your resume, LinkedIn profile, marketing plan, as well as network or impress with your interviewing skills -- nothing of those is relevant for this particular hiring process;
   • Ask about job descriptions or assignments -- the Employer has hired no manager yet. All we have are the visions and budget;
   • Treat this opportunity as immediate cash earning; this is rather a learning or transitional chance;
2. Imagine an ideal career service provider, which provides services remotely;
3. Compare with the visions of Friends Of CNM and its current online presence;
4. Find out discrepancies between the ideal and existing services;
5. Decide whether you can:
   • Lead the endeavor to build the ideal provider in your new capacity of Friends Of CNM Executive Administrator;
   • Accomplish some project to build some part of it in your new capacity of Careerprise vendor; or
   • Start from scratch in your new capacity of WorldOpp Fellow Candidate;
6. Describe what you propose to accomplish and email it to Gary Ihar. You are also welcome to ask any question at any time.

Communications

Public portal

Main wikipage: FriendsOfCNM.com

The Friends' public portal is https://friendsofcnm.com

Newsletters

Main wikipage: Friends Of CNM newsletter

Related coursework

• Welcome to Friends Of CNM.