Leo Sosa

Leonardo Sosa, Executive Director
(415) 572.3947
leo@devmission.org

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
September 12th 2019

Leonardo Sosa, Executive Director
(415) 572.3947
leo@devmission.org

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Jul 15th, 2019

Opportunities for All creates access for diverse young people
to employment around San Francisco. The program includes paid
internships, mentorship, career training, and apprenticeship
for participants ages 13 to 24. This was Dev/Mission’s first
year partnering up with Opportunities for All to provide paid
internships to young people from different high schools around
San Francisco. Dev/Mission is extremely thankful to have these
amazing interns this summer.

Dev/Mission provided a various amount of internships this summer
like outreach, data entry, admin assistant, photographer, blogger,
and marketing. Everyone was consistently busy and learning everyday
with their supervisors. We faced a countless amount of challenges
and learned many career skills, communication skills, and problem
solving skills.

Once again, Dev/Mission was pleased to have interns this summer and
we can’t wait to see what happens next year. The interns did great
this summer!

An OFA Participant states, “I would like to thank Opportunities
for All and Dev/Mission for my internship this summer. I was a
Blogger at Dev/Mission and I also did data entry. I have learned
so much this summer and I can’t thank them enough! It’s been so
much fun.”

Leonardo Sosa, Executive Director
(415) 572.3947
leo@devmission.org

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
June 3, 2019

Dev/Mission announces New Lease Agreement with Mission Housing One of the premier Resident Services collaborations in San Francisco is taking another step forward. On June 3, 2019, two years after agreeing to partner and incubate at one of Mission Housing Development Corporation’s marquee buildings, Dev/Mission has signed a new lease agreement with the nonprofit developer making Valencia Gardens, located at 360 Valencia St., the official headquarters of the tech nonprofit.
“When we incubated dev/Mission two years ago, we could only dream that Leo and his team would reward our faith the way that they have,” said Sam Moss, Executive Director at Mission Housing. “We’re beyond proud of dev/Mission’s success. They’re further proof that Mission Housing’s commercial tenants thrive when they’re truly community partners, and we’ll continue to support these invaluable
assets to our communities because that is the Mission Housing way.”
Mission Housing and dev/Mission are pleased to extend an invitation to the public on June 3, 2019, for the official ribbon cutting ceremony at the official headquarters of dev/Mission — 360 Valencia St. In the heart of the Mission District. “Dev/Mission is very thankful to our partner Mission Housing Development Corporation for working together with our leadership team to develop this amazing lease that will help us enhance and deliver programming in the Mission District for years to come,” said Leo Sosa, Executive Director of Dev/Mission “You know your work matters when you support an amazing organization and partner such as Dev/Mission,” said Marcia Contreras, Deputy Executive Director at Mission Housing. “Mission Housing is thrilled to be able to secure a space for dev/Mission, but most importantly what this space represents to so many young adults. We believed in the vision that Leo Sosa presented to us two years ago. Today, we celebrate a mutual collaboration that has produced opportunities to so many, but most importantly it has empowered our young adults to believe in themselves and become our future.

Leonardo Sosa, Executive Director
(415) 572.3947
leo@devmission.org

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
May 23rd, 2019

On Thursday, May 23rd, 2019 inside the Robert B Pitts Public Housing Complex and in partnership with FRH Consulting our <dev/Mission> Community came together to celebrate the accomplishments of 6 young adults from the western addition as they completed an 8-week training pre-apprenticeship occupational skills program; the program has prepared them for
careers in the tech sector as well as post-secondary educational programs.

In partnership with FRH Consulting, Danielle Banks and Evie Barranco, we provided technology
instruction to 6 transitional-age youth, ages 16-24 since February 2019, in the following competencies:

A+ Training: 1st crucial step to advance IT Certifications.
Intro to Programming: Learn HTML, CSS, and JavaScript as youth build their own website, web app or mobile app.
Critical Career Skills: Youth learn about Job Readiness, business communication, professionalism, and team building projects.


The program is unique in that instruction takes place exclusively onsite in affordable housing communities in San Francisco, and youth participants are required to provide much-needed free tech support and repair services to low-income families in their communities when they graduate
from their program.


The graduation was an opportunity to honored students for their hard work in the presence of their families and friends. Speakers included partners from the tech industry, Office of Economic and Workforce Development (TechSF) and members of the graduation class and their families.


To learn more about <dev/Mission> which aims to train untapped young adults ages 16-24 for careers in tech, contact Leo Sosa @leo@devmission.org


We would like to thank the below Program Sponsors: FRH Consulting,
The Office of Economic and Workforce Development, Google, The San Francisco Foundation and Uber.