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  • A La Reliure du Limousin, les aides gouvernementales sont indispensables au succès de l'apprentissage

    March 26, 2025 |

    Le Monde |

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    Response Location: France, Malemort

    Chez La Reliure du Limousin, entreprise de reliure et de restauration de documents anciens, les financements publics soutiennent un programme d’apprentissage qui allie formation technique et cours théoriques. L’entreprise accueille 10 apprentis par an et a jusqu’à présent embauché une douzaine pour des postes permanents.

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  • Care About Food Waste? In Massachusetts, You Can Be a Compost Consultant.

    March 25, 2025 |

    The New York Times |

    Multi-Media |

    Under 800 Words

    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    To support a mandate requiring certain businesses to divert organic materials from landfills, Massachusetts provides state-funded consultants that offer free, hands-on assistance. These consultants visit businesses like restaurants, identify specific challenges, propose practical solutions such as targeted bins and signage, and connect owners with compost haulers and food recovery charities.

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  • LALIF Sparking a New Dawn of Hope For Neglected Deaf Blind

    March 18, 2025 |

    BONews |

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    Over 15 Minutes

    Response Location: Nigeria

    Lionheart Ability Leaders International Foundation (LALIF) uses a comprehensive training program to empower parents, teachers and those living with vision and hearing impairment. Their programming teaches educators how to understand tactile sign language, and also empowers parents on how best to support their children living with disabilities.

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  • Beyond the Chip: How an Oregon university gives students a 'quick start' in chip manufacturing

    March 05, 2025 |

    Knox Pages |

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    Response Location: United States, Portland, Oregon

    In partnership with universities and community colleges, Intel’s Quick Start program gives students condensed training over 10 days that prepares them for careers in the semiconductor industry. In one iteration of the program at Portland Community College, 391 students have graduated so far, and everyone who graduates is guaranteed an interview at Intel.

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  • Apprenticeships Bring a Fresh Generation to Small Dairy Farms

    January 28, 2025 |

    Civil Eats |

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    Response Location: United States

    Since 2015, the Dairy Grazing Apprenticeship, with support by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), has worked to help dairy farmers transfer skills and opportunities to a new generation. Thus far, slmost 70 apprentices have graduated from the program as independent journeyworkers, and 59 farmer-apprentice pairs are currently active across the country.

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  • Inside Africa's Trailblazing Solar Repair Movement

    January 27, 2025 |

    Reasons to be Cheerful |

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    Response Location: Zambia

    Nonprofit SolarAid trains repair technicians who can fix solar energy kits. In the 2023-24 financial year, SolarAid’s teams across Zambia and Malawi repaired 2,422 solar products, reducing electronic waste, increasing the lifespan of products, and improving access to solar lights, as well as creating job opportunities

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  • New work program in Atlantic City for homeless people

    November 27, 2024 |

    NJ Spotlight |

    Broadcast TV News |

    3-5 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, Atlantic City, New Jersey

    The Hope Work Initiative by Atlantic City's Homeless Outreach Unit connects unhoused community members with temporary employment cleaning up the city streets for three days a week, making $75 a day.

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  • This Native-Led Group Is Bringing Solar Power to Tribal Lands

    September 30, 2024 |

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    Response Location: Hopi Reservation, United States

    Native Renewables, a Native- and women-led nonprofit, is bringing free, off-grid solar energy systems to homes in the Navajo and Hopi reservations that don’t have access to power. And it’s doing so by training local Indigenous peoples to work in the industry so they can reap the economic benefits of these careers instead of hiring out the work.

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  • Ecotourism offers new hopes for Bhutanese youth — and local environments

    September 06, 2024 |

    Mongabay |

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    Response Location: Bhutan

    Local communities in Bhutan are developing ecotourism sites to create jobs, generate income, and protect endangered species and ecosystems. They’ve created ecolodges and campsites, host traditional dining experiences with food from local farmers, and host nature-based activities, all while leading conservation efforts on the land they use.

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  • These American Climate Corps Workers Are Paving a Green Future

    August 15, 2024 |

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    Response Location: United States, California

    Over 300 SolarCorps fellows in the inaugural class of the United States Climate Corps, a workforce-training program, are engaging with communities and installing solar panels to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Fellows work with different organizations across several states, such as the nonprofit GRID Alternatives, which is focused on bringing no-cost solar installations to underserved communities.

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