Friends Of CNM

Friends Of CNM's trade mark

Friends Of CNM (also known by its acronym FOCNM or FoCNM; hereinafter, FoCNM) 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) and its patrons.

Organizational recitals

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

Purposes

FoCNM's 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

Careerprise

Career services

Main wikipage: Careerprise

Careerprise is the one-stop hub for career services that is brought to the general public by FoCNM. Using CNM Cloud, FoCNM 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 WorldOpp fellows on a permanent basis.

Entrepreneurial fellowship

Main wikipage: WorldOpp

WorldOpp is the programme to support entrepreneurs worldwide commercially through WorldOpp Financing and create jobs for the vulnerable through WorldOpp Fellowship, that is brought to the general public by FoCNM. 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 FoCNM. 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

FoCNM are divided in three departments: (a) Community Board, (b) Staff, and (c) WorldOpp incubator.

Staff

Main wikipage: WorldOpp Fellow Staff

Communications

Public portals

Main wikipages: FriendsOfCNM.com and FriendsOfCNM.org

The FoCNM' public portal is https://friendsofcnm.org

Newsletters

Main wikipage: Friends Of CNM newsletter

See also

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