Friends Of CNM

Friends Of CNM (hereinafter, the Friends) is a group of individuals and organizations that support the Career Network Ministry (also known by its acronym CNM) in order 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.

Services

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.

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.

Entrepreneurial fellowship

Main wikipage: WorldOpp

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

Structure

The Friends are divided in three departments: (a) Community Board, (b) Fellow Team, and (c) Candidate Team.

Community Board

Main wikipage: CNM Community Board

The CNM Community Board includes CNM industry councils and CNM professional committees.

One of CNM Industry Councils is CNM Council for Career Services, which is a group of directors, whose goals are:

1. To enhance CNM's services generally; and
2. To oversee WorldOpp Fellow Team and WorldOpp Candidate Team particularly.

Fellow Team

Main wikipage: WorldOpp Fellow Team

The WorldOpp Fellow Team is the Friend's department that consists of WorldOpp fellows. This department supports CNM Cloud, sponsors the WorldOpp Candidate Team, and is overseen by the CNM Council for Career Services.

Candidate Team

Main wikipage: WorldOpp Candidate Team

WorldOpp Candidate Team discovers, analyzes, designs, and implements new services related to education, workforce development, recruitment, and administration of information technology. Particularly, it includes the Opplet incubator.

Communications

Public portal

Main wikipage: FriendsOfCNM.com

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

Newsletters

Main wikipage: Friends Of CNM newsletter

Development

Main wikipage: Friends Of CNM Program

The development of the Friends is conducted under Friends Of CNM Program, which consists of several projects including (a) Careerprise Project, (b) CNM Management Training Project, (c) Educaship Project, and (d) WorldOpp development.

Employment

Main wikipage: Friends Of CNM employment

On an ongoing basis, the Friends group is hiring staffers for its Fellow Team and Candidate Team.