Today, young adults and students – some as early as middle school – have the opportunity to enroll and participate in an array of coding programs designed to offer an accelerated pathway to a career in tech. Amid these myriad options, one standout organization based in Camden, New Jersey, is uniquely positioned to train and hire students where they are: in their own community.
Hopeworks is a blended nonprofit organization and tech business that specializes in digital mapping and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and web development. The organization works with hundreds of high school students in both Camden and neighboring Philadelphia through their robust skills development program.
So what is Hopeworks’ secret?
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The nonprofit provides paid training, career support and real work to help 17- to-26-year-olds move into full-time jobs averaging $43K a year. In a bright room at Hopeworks Kensington, young adults sit at computers learning to code, build websites and prepare for careers many once thought were out of reach. Some come in unsure of […]
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