Applying to become a CTEP Site Partner
Interested in hosting a CTEP AmeriCorps member at your site?
CTEP AmeriCorps conducts an annual round of applications seeking site partners in Saint Paul and Minneapolis who seek to strengthen their technology literacy programming. Current partners must renew to remain in the program.
CTEP completed its selection of partners for the 2010-2011 service year in February 2010, and is not currently seeking applications. Feel free to contact us beforehand to determine if your organization could be a good fit or be notified when the host site application for 2011-12 is ready: email Joel Krogstad or call 651 556 1389. These are for positions that would begin September 2011 and complete August 2012.
Site Application Process Timeline for 2011-2012 |
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| CTEP Host Site Application materials are posted on our website | Dec 1, 2010 |
| Informational Sessions on CTEP program and application (Highly Recommended for Sites who have never had a CTEP AmeriCorps member) | Tues Jan 4, 2011 at 12-1 and 4-5 PM at the CTEP office. Please email Joel Krgstad to RSVP for one of these meetings if you are interested |
| Application/position descriptions for renewing and new partners | due Feb 4, 2011 |
| Notification of initial partner acceptance and allocation of member slots: | Feb 21, 2011 |
| Host Site Agreement: | To be signed by March 25, 2011 |
| Member Interviews and Placement: | Feb through July 1, 2011 (desired) |
| Member Starts Service at Your Site | Sept 7, 2011 |
| Member Completes Service at Your Site | Aug 31, 2012 |
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CTEP typically partners with non-profits, libraries, community centers, and out-of-school time programs who work with our target populations: New Americans, low-income families, or individuals who have physical or mental disabilities. We do not traditionally partner with for-profit organizations or schools. The partner ideally should already have some technology literacy programming, or at least ideas on how this programming could be expanded through the efforts of a CTEP AmeriCorps member.
We hope that sites have aspirations for being partners with CTEP for more than one year. Many capacity building initiatives that we hope that CTEP AmeriCorps members initiate may take longer than one service year to implement. CTEP AmeriCorps, like any other AmeriCorps program, is not designed to be a long term solution to building capacity or providing direct service at your site. AmeriCorps members are not meant to serve or replace crucial staff roles, but instead build the capacity of organizations and start new programming that should eventually be run by the organizations without the assistance of AmeriCorps.