Building Skills Partnership (BSP) (Los Angeles)

Our mission is to improve the quality of life for low-wage property service workers and their families by increasing their skills, access to education, and opportunities for career and community advancement and participation.

BSP’s worksite volunteer programs create community at the worksite by fostering mutual understanding and learning between corporate employees and the janitors who clean their offices. Corporate employees volunteer as one-on-one tutors, who help address the specific language or technology needs and interests of their partner. They can also become teaching aides, who support the teacher within the multi-level English and computer classroom.

Office Support Volunteers

Office support volunteers assist BSP staff with administrative duties, including outreach, database maintenance, funding research, and attendance tracking. Office support volunteers are critical to BSP’s capacity. By adding hundreds of hours work each year, office support volunteers allow BSP to keep administrative costs to a minimum and direct saved resources towards expanding the quality and scope of BSP’s services.

Educational/Cross-Cultural Learning Volunteer

Educational volunteer programs include Worksite English and Computer Literacy Tutors and Teaching Aides, Community English and Computer Literacy Tutor and Teaching Aides, and BSP Office Support and Internship Program. Volunteers not only make the language learning process more dynamic but they also serve as resources for immigrants learning how to navigate life in the United States.

Community Class Volunteers (ESL and Computers)

Teaching aides and tutors provide encouragement and build the workers’ confidence to learn, while helping immigrant adults gain familiarity with United States culture and resources. Tutors meet one-on-one or in small groups outside of class to provide personalized attention to the specific needs and interests of each student, while teaching aides offer support to English or Computer teachers in a multi-level class.

How You Help

Volunteers allow BSP to provide individual support to students so they can succeed and lower program costs so BSP can expand the quality and scope of services provided.

About Us

Building Skills Partnership (BSP) represents a unique non-profit collaboration between the janitors’ union, commercial building owners, janitorial employers, client companies, and community leaders. Founded in 2007, BSP is a statewide organization that works towards its mission to improve the quality of life for low-wage property service workers and their families by increasing their skills, access to education, and opportunities for career and community advancement. BSP is a high-quality vocational education and training program that is capable of increasing the workforce capacity and economic performance of property service workers.