Digitizing the Past to Protect the Future: How Hopeworks Helped Hartford, VT Tackle Lead in Drinking Water

In May 2024, the town of Hartford, Vermont, set out to complete its lead service lines (LSL) inventory to comply with the EPA’s Lead and Copper Rule Revisions (LCRR). Hartford, like many rural towns, faces the dual challenge of aging infrastructure and limited local resources, making the completion of LSL inventories particularly challenging. 

Achieving that milestone took more than just technical expertise—it required innovation, teamwork, and a powerful partnership with EPIC’s Funding Navigator and Hopeworks, a nonprofit organization that trains and empowers young professionals. Hopeworks helped tackle one of the most time-consuming parts of the process: transcribing decades-old, handwritten utility records. 

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September 8, 2025
Hopeworks and Dell Technologies Launch AI Innovation Hub to Skill the Future Workforce

Philadelphia, PA and Camden, NJ – July 31, 2025 – Hopeworks, a social enterprise dedicated to empowering young adults to establish living wage careers, announces the launch of state-of-the-art AI Innovation Hubs at both of their facilities located in Philadelphia and Camden. The initiative, made possible by an in-kind donation of a DellAI Factory with […]

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September 3, 2025
🚀 America’s Next Moonshot: Turning National AI Policy into Local Opportunity

The future of work isn’t coming—it’s here. And it’s being shaped by AI, faster than most realize. When America set out to land on the Moon, it wasn’t just about exploration. It was about uniting public and private efforts around an audacious goal, proving that when we aim high, we can achieve the spectacular. The […]

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September 2, 2025
Young Professionals Making Their Mark

Big things are happening, four young adults just stepped into new roles in public health, education, youth advocacy, and healthcare! Ready to hire the next generation of changemakers? Let’s connect and bring Hopeworks talent to your team.

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