As of January 1, 2013 Junket began meeting in an official office! We rent an office from Green Desk and have access to a conference room for 12 hours a month which covers the time needed for our four meetings a month.  We are thrilled to have a consistent space to meet in. The current monthly rent is $650.

Each week we provide an array of healthy snacks and at times a full meal to help cultivate the “family” mealtime together which helps us catch up each week and further build connections with each Junketeer.

In order to ease the burden of getting to and from meetings/events, we provide each Junket member with a roundtrip Metro Card for their use.

Building business and creative skills is an integral part of our Junket meetings, and in order to do that in a way that will prepare our youth for college and their future careers, we utilize software such as Adobe Photoshop and Microsoft Office (Excel, Word, Powerpoint).

We are shifting from an entrepreneurial group project and focusing more on individual needs. Each Junket member will be allotted between $2500 to $5,000 per year framed as a grant to utilize as they work toward their specific goals. This could include costs related to housing, school, clothes for work, food, phone service etc. Roughly it will work out to $200 to $400 per month for each participating youth.

Every month we schedule an event, usually on the weekend, that’s outside of the office doing something fun together as a group. Whether it’s apple picking or going to the Brooklyn Museum, these times together create memories that make Junket feel even more like a family.

In 2019 we gathered our Junket crew, old and new, along with our volunteers and local donors for a “Family Dinner” at a restaurant in Brooklyn to celebrate Junket together. Our hope was to make this an annual tradition, giving space to thank our supporters while also gathering the full network in one place as a sort of family reunion. Obviously the past couple of years have hindered our ability to gather in this way again, but we are excited to make this a goal to resume in 2023!