• 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 […]
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  • Building a Better Future Through AI

    Hopeworks CEO Dan Rhoton explains how AI is a tool for helping young people build meaningful careers. Hopeworks, a nonprofit social enterprise operating in Camden, New Jersey, and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, offers young adults facing barriers to economic opportunity critical technological training in AI-augmented skills, including web development, data visualization and geographic information systems (GIS). Utilizing […]
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  • Philly’s FORT Robotics lands $19M to scale machine safety platform

    Plus, Hopeworks is getting an AI hub thanks to Dell, Dispatch Bio emerges with $216M and more money moves. Biotech has always been a regional strength, and there’s news about wins in that sector, but the Philly ecosystem also saw strong performance that points to other sectors on the rise.  Robotics is one: On the […]
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The AI Impact - Education & The Workforce

May 7, 2024
Dan Rhoton, the CEO of the New Jersey-based job training nonprofit Hopeworks, firmly believes AI can help prepare underprivileged young adults to enter the workforce.  Hopeworks utilizes AI tools to upskill Camden, N.J.-area residents over 17 and connect them with local employers. Rhoton sees the technology as a way to level the playing field between […]
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Building the Future

April 16, 2024
The Camden-based nonprofit Hopeworks expanding its mission helping young adults find long-term, living-wage careers with its inaugural H.O.P.E Summit last month, showcasing impactful panel discussions, networking opportunities and interactive workshops that focused on critical skills like digital literacy, professional development and navigating AI. Read our segment in the southjerseybiz.net article here or visit the site […]
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Philadelphia hopes to put some 250 residents to work with $1.2 million in grants to 4 nonprofits

March 28, 2024
PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) — Philadelphia is giving $1.2 million to four workforce training programs, in hopes of securing jobs for some 250 students. The jobs are mostly in the medical field but also include some city jobs. Employers such as Penn Medicine and Temple Health need medical assistants, and thousands of Philadelphians need jobs. The city’s […]
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Four organizations selected to develop innovative solutions for job seekers in Philadelphia

March 28, 2024
Mayor Cherelle Parker and the Department of Commerce on Thursday announced four new organizations to develop innovative workforce solutions for local job seekers. The Workforce Solutions Grant invests in programs from organizations that strive to address specific challenges that Black, Latino and other historically disadvantaged Philadelphia residents face when preparing for and entering the workforce. […]
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City Announces $1.15 Million Investment in Organizations Advancing Innovative Workforce Training Programs

March 28, 2024
PHILADELPHIA — The City’s Department of Commerce today announced its latest investment through the Workforce Solutions Grant, selecting four new organizations to develop innovative workforce solutions for local job seekers to prepare for and connect to sustainable career pathways that pay a living wage. The Workforce Solutions Grant invests in programs from organizations that strive […]
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