Hopeworks awarded 2023 American Water Charitable Foundation Workforce Readiness Grant
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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Camden Looks To Cut Down On Student Truancy
Camden schools says it has a solution to help solve a longstanding problem – truancy among high school students. Thanks to a new $250,000 program, 50 additional students will train and work at Hopeworks, a nonprofit based in downtown Camden that provides online services for companies nationwide. Students learn to write code, design websites and […]
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Philly daily roundup: EV chargers on I-95; A 40-year career journey; ZeroEyes partners with food merchants
How one coder moved up at NASA over 40 years Joanne Woytek is the program manager for NASA’s Solutions for Enterprise-Wide Procurement — the group tasked with fulfilling IT requests across the US government. Her career at NASA has spanned decades and numerous roles. Woytek is also the first woman to transition on the job at […]
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High Praise for our Web Design Business

December 14, 2017

Because there is always so much to share about our youth at Hopeworks, it is easy to forget to highlight our three thriving businesses that provide nearly ⅓ of the revenue to fund all of Hopeworks’ good work. When our trainees finish their training, we hire many of them on as Hopeworks interns in either […]

George Hernandez Joins Hopeworks as Alumni Coordinator

December 14, 2017

Hopeworks is excited to announce the appointment of George Hernandez as Hopeworks new Alumni Coordinator, building and coordinating Hopeworks alumni network to make sure all of Hopeworks youth -- past and present -- have access to the tools they need to achieve their dreams! George is exceptionally well suited to the role. As a Hopeworks […]

Mentoring inspires Tony Burruano

November 16, 2017

It has been a whirlwind! On May 18th I raised my hand to volunteer at a Hopeworks function and on June 2nd I was at a 3 hour training/orientation at Hopeworks. On June 28th I was introduced to my mentee, Angel. I had no idea what it would be like. Could I really make a […]

Camden’s Fall 2017 Hackathon Brings More Code to Camden!

November 16, 2017

Continuing the tradition of Hopeworks Fall Camden Code Days, youth and volunteers from across the region gathered on the Campus of Rutgers Camden on October 28th to learn about Code and technology. Thanks to the work of volunteers from Subaru, Starbucks, mobiWebcom, Techgirlz, and many others, youth learned not only about the how of coding […]

Hopeworks Youth Selected as TechServ Scholars

September 20, 2017

Five Hopeworks youth were selected as TechServ Scholars and began their year of service this fall. TechServ Scholars is a program that is operated by JEVS Human Services in partnership with AmeriCorps, Hopeworks, and local public schools. The youth will be placed in Philadelphia and Camden schools to provide digital literacy training and STEM education […]

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Hopeworks awarded 2023 American Water Charitable Foundation Workforce Readiness Grant

Camden Looks To Cut Down On Student Truancy

Philly daily roundup: EV chargers on I-95; A 40-year career journey; ZeroEyes partners with food merchants