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Hopeworks Interns Accept Full Time Job Offers with Akamai!

July 14, 2023
We are excited to announce that three of our Hopeworks young professionals who were in 6-month internships with Tech Giant, Akamai, have accepted full-time jobs! Congratulations to Ciara Williams, JoJo Nunez and Pat Ingram who will be transitioning to full-time Customer Support Specialists. The Akamai team was so impressed with their internship performance, that when […]
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Hopeworks Teams Up With Cooper Hospital and Camden County College to Launch EMT Program!

July 14, 2023
Hopeworks is excited to announce our first EMT Training cohort that launches this summer! The program is in partnership with Cooper University Healthcare and Camden County College! The 2-month training starts in July and will include 6 Hopeworks young professionals to start. They will receive supervised clinical education in various hospital units and services, and […]
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Luca and Yang Begin Exciting New Chapters!

July 14, 2023
As we near the end of our fiscal year and move into summer, the full-time jobs for Hopeworks young professionals are pouring in! Just last week, we had Yang - a developer on our web team and Luca - a GIS team intern, accept full-time jobs at NFI Industries and Philadelphia Youth Network. Yang will […]
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Camden nonprofit's new website aimed at bringing more traction to the city

July 2, 2023
CAMDEN, NJ (KYW Newsradio) — With declining crime rates in Camden, a nonprofit has created a website showcasing reasons to visit the happening city. “We have entertainment, we have the aquarium, we have the battleship, we have recently, the new hotel, you know, we want people to spend time here in downtown Camden, bring the whole […]
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Check it out: Hopeworks’ young pros made this website highlighting Camden’s biz district

June 28, 2023
Just across the Delaware River, the Camden Special Services District (CSSD) has a new tool to share the happenings of its local small business and arts community, thanks to the work of young technologists. CSSD partnered with Hopeworks, a tech education nonprofit that helps young adults establish tech careers, to develop the website My Downtown Camden. This […]
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New Website Integrates Downtown Camden Events, Restaurants, Businesses

June 27, 2023
CAMDEN – The city has a lot of small businesses operating downtown. At the same time, many downtown events are being sponsored by different stakeholders. How could it all be pulled together to inform the community? That was the question Nathaniel Echeverria and his team considered when they decided a website with directories of both […]
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These 20 innovators are PHL Inno's 2023 Fire Awards honorees

June 26, 2023
It’s been a tough year for startups, with many forced to tighten their belts and lay off employees as venture capital funding dried up. Despite the national funding slump, Philadelphia-area startups continue to prove they’ve got fight in them, with the region landing among the top metros for venture capital deals in the first quarter and being […]
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Hopeworks: A Community-based Roadmap to a Long-term Living Wage

June 14, 2023
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 […]
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Camden Night Gardens: From Carnival Rides to Car Show, Fun for All

May 27, 2023
CAMDEN, NJ – Thousands celebrated the unofficial start of summer by spending Friday evening of Memorial Day weekend attending Camden Night Gardens at Cooper’s Poynt Park. The event transformed Cooper’s Poynt Park into a carnival-like atmosphere, with rides and games and food trucks serving sausage sandwiches and popcorn and newer options like acai bowls and smoothies. […]
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Hopeworks is helping young adults get trained for tech in Kensington

April 24, 2023
PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- They're training and finding jobs for young adults in the tech field. Hopeworks is a bright spot for the neighborhood of Kensington. They're providing hope in a city that some say is riddled with crime. Ruth De Leon is finishing up her training in web development. A path the 20-year-old from Kensington thought […]
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