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Closing the Opportunity Divide
Posted by on September 27, 2013 at 12:55 PM EDTGerald Chertavian is the Founder and CEO of Year Up. Year Up's mission is to close the Opportunity Divide by providing urban young adults with the skills, experience, and support that will empower them to reach their potential through professional careers and higher education.
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Green City Force Bringing Youth and Jobs Together
Posted by on September 27, 2013 at 12:53 PM EDTLisbeth Shepherd is a serial social entrepreneur dedicated to creating opportunity for young adults through national service. A 1993 Echoing Green Fellow, Lisbeth founded the leading national service organization in France that inspired the Service Civique for 75,000 young people in France: Unis-Cité.
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Investing in Philadelphia’s Future Through Our Youth
Posted by on September 27, 2013 at 12:50 PM EDTStacy E. Holland is the Co-Founder and Former President & CEO of the Philadelphia Youth Network. She will continue her work in advocating in preparing youth for college and career success in her new role as the Chief of Strategic Partnerships at the School District of Philadelphia.
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The Positive Impacts of Education and Job Training on Urban Youth
Posted by on September 27, 2013 at 12:48 PM EDTJeff Tollefson serves as Executive Director of Genesys Works – Twin Cities, a non-profit organization helping economically disadvantaged high school students to enter and thrive in the economic mainstream by providing them the knowledge and work experience required to succeed as professionals.
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Answering the President’s Call for Service
Posted by on September 27, 2013 at 12:45 PM EDTJohn Hogan is the founder and full-time volunteer CEO at TeenForce, a social enterprise dedicated to solving the youth employment crisis by meeting the hiring needs of business.
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Working to Get My Dream Job
Posted by on September 27, 2013 at 12:40 PM EDTThis summer, Emmanuel Haynes worked towards his dream of owning his own funeral home and helping families in their hardest and saddest times by interning at the Ronald Jones Funeral Chapel.
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Unexpected Rewards are the Best Rewards
Posted by on September 27, 2013 at 12:26 PM EDTEvery summer for the past six years, since she was 14-years-old, Tiffani Cooper has held a job through YouthWorks.
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Summer Jobs Encouraging Me to Find My Dream
Posted by on September 27, 2013 at 12:20 PM EDTAbraham Alvarez completed a summer job at the tech startup company, Media Relevance, after applying to be a part of the Future Graduates Summer Tech Internship program.
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Learning from Surprising Offers
Posted by on September 27, 2013 at 12:14 PM EDTDeshawn Shepherd found work as a summer intern at Phalanx Family Services through the One Summer Chicago PLUS program, which offers young males six-weeks of work experience and provides additional skill development and adult mentorship to develop transferable career and life skills.
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In Case You Missed It: President Obama at Kansas City Ford Plant: Congress Needs to Do Its Job
Posted by on September 24, 2013 at 12:03 PM EDTPresident Obama delivers remarks at a suburban Kansas City, MO Ford Motor Co. stamping plant – a plant that recently had to bring on a shift of 900 workers to keep up with the demand for the new F-150.
