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WRA Announces 2024 Water Resources Award Winners

July 16, 2024
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (PA, NJ, DE, NY) – The Water Resources Association of the Delaware River Basin (WRA) today announced the winners of the 2024 Water Resources Awards, recognizing leadership, innovation and excellence in the science and management of water resources within the Delaware Basin.  “These awardees are leading with science, collaboration and vision to advance […]
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Helping To Keep Life Flowing: Hopeworks And American Water Forge Powerful Partnership For Social Impact

July 12, 2024
A unique collaboration proves there is a pipeline of eager and talented water workforce candidates, if the industry seizes the opportunity to tap it. Since 2015, Hopeworks and New Jersey American Water have partnered on a groundbreaking collaboration aimed at empowering young adults through a unique workforce program. Through this program, individuals from Hopeworks were […]
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Shapiro Administration Awards Nearly $4.9 Million to 50 Organizations Boosting Digital Literacy Across Pennsylvania

June 14, 2024
Harrisburg, PA – The Shapiro Administration today announced nearly $4.9 million in grants to 50 community organizations throughout Pennsylvania for programs to improve digital literacy among job seekers so they can be successful in finding, obtaining, and maintaining employment. In this round of digital-literacy funding – the fifth since 2021 – the Department of Labor & Industry (L&I) has awarded grants […]
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Thanks to a $1 million gift, this Kensington nonprofit is giving more young people training and work experience in tech

May 15, 2024
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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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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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 […]
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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 .
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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 […]
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