Thanks to a $1 million gift, this Kensington nonprofit is giving more young people training and work experience in tech
Hopeworks is a nonprofit that offers training and work experience in tech for young adults. They plan to expand their Kensington office and double the amount of training slots they currently offer. Over the past few years, a media-boosted narrative about young people has emerged — they are lazy. None of them want to work, […]
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Thanks to a $1 million gift, this Kensington nonprofit is giving more young people training and work experience in tech
Hopeworks is a nonprofit that offers training and work experience in tech for young adults. They plan to expand their Kensington office and double the amount of training slots they currently offer. Over the past few years, a media-boosted narrative about young people has emerged — they are lazy. None of them want to work, […]
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The AI Impact - Education & The Workforce
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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America’s Great Experiment With Jobs For The Underclass

February 21, 2024

Revealing how workers in the “hard to employ” groups, who were not program participants, were quietly finding jobs on their own: While Supported Work suffered from high drop-out rates, it also showed how much other workers in the “hard to employ” populations, the control group members, were finding jobs on their own. The small difference […]

Partners in Philanthropy 2024: Announcing this year’s 25 honorees

February 13, 2024

This year the Business Journal is recognizing 25 partnerships for their philanthropic work across Greater Philadelphia. Visit the site for the full article here or click here .

Hopeworks Spotlight: "Four Trends Driving Career-Connected Learning in 2024"

January 17, 2024

Published on Catalyze "Career-connected learning is most successful when it centers student agency, giving them the power and resources to fulfill their own potential. Hopeworks, for example, integrates trauma-informed care into their skills development programs for high school students in Camden and Philadelphia. By providing support tailored to their students’ unique experiences and needs, Hopeworks […]

Hopeworks Web Team Develops Philabundance Website; Launches New Website to Showcase Services & Client Work

November 30, 2023

We are excited to announce that our web team has developed and launched a new website for the impactful and well-known nonprofit, Philabundance! Philabundance works with over 350 community partners to distribute food throughout nine counties in Southeastern Pennsylvania and Southern New Jersey. Their very simple belief is that no one should go hungry while […]

Hopeworks awarded 2023 American Water Charitable Foundation Workforce Readiness Grant

November 21, 2023

Hopeworks was recently awarded a 2023 American Water Charitable Foundation Workforce Readiness Grant that will be used to support its workforce development program that connects young adults to education, experience and a transformative career. Both Camden-based businesses have been partners for several years to provide real work experience to a group of young adults with state-of-the-art Geographic Information System […]

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Thanks to a $1 million gift, this Kensington nonprofit is giving more young people training and work experience in tech