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  • The Benevolents

    Sarah Baril Gaudet

    November 14, 2022 |

    The New York Times |

    Documentary |

    Over 15 Minutes

    Response Location: Canada, Montreal, Quebec

    At a call center in Montreal, Tel-Aide, staff members are trained to be active listeners without providing guidance or advice to callers looking for someone to talk to.

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  • The Sewing Labs apprenticeship program opens pathways for KC residents

    Mili Mansaray

    November 14, 2022 |

    The Kansas City Beacon |

    Text |

    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United States, Kansas City, Missouri

    The Sewing Labs provides apprenticeships that teach sewing skills as a route to jobs, financial independence and dignity. The Sewing Labs was recently chosen as one of 207 businesses to participate in the U.S. Department of Labor’s Apprenticeship Ambassadors Initiative to present an “earn and learn” model to create equitable and debt-free pathways to good-paying jobs.

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  • Preventing reincarceration

    Justin Nemetz

    November 14, 2022 |

    Grady Newsource |

    Broadcast TV News |

    3-5 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, Jefferson, Georgia

    Jackson County's correctional facility has a transitional center that allows people who are incarcerated to begin working and building job skills while they are still finishing out their sentence. The wages they earn go toward paying off any charges associated with their conviction, and the rest is funneled into a bank account that is there for them when they're released.

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  • Could farming bring solutions to homelessness across the country?

    Jessie Cohen

    October 24, 2022 |

    KSHB-TV |

    Text |

    Under 800 Words

    Response Location: United States, Kansas City, Missouri

    The Green Phoenix Farm is a job training program for women who have experienced homelessness and offers them employment, mentorship, and advocacy. In 2021, the farm produced $110,000 worth of value off of .8 acres under cultivation, which is 17 times the economic output of an average vegetable farm in the United States.

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  • With Yenbyen fellowship Nigerian girls are being primed to be prospective tech leaders 

    Nanji Nandang

    October 24, 2022 |

    Social Voices |

    Text |

    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: Nigeria, Plateau State

    The Yenbyen Fellowship is a six-month program that provides free digital skills training to young women. The Fellowship’s goal is to support the next generation of female tech leaders by providing training in areas like coding, web development, software engineering, and digital marketing. In an area where women are scarce in the workplace, so far 19 students who participated in the fellowship have found jobs in the tech industry.

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  • A Sightsavers Initiative is helping PWDs to Surmount Unemployment Challenges in Nigeria

    Blessing Oladunjoye

    October 24, 2022 |

    BONews |

    Text |

    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: Nigeria, Okenne

    Sightsavers is an international organization that focuses on the prevention of avoidable blindness and the promotion of equality for people with visual impairments and other disabilities in the workforce through its Inclusion Works project. Since its inception in 2020, Sightsavers has helped more than 200 individuals with visual impairments transition into new employment.

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  • Georgia's largest school district seeing success in recruiting, keeping bus drivers

    Jorge Estevez

    October 14, 2022 |

    WSB-TV |

    Broadcast TV News |

    3-5 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, Georgia

    Gwinnett County Schools in Georgia is using active recruitment to keep an appropriate number of bus drivers on staff. Their team dedicated to transportation holds weekly job fairs, sends flyers home with students’ meals, and trains potential drivers on site.

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  • Here's how one metro district is working to combat school bus driver shortages

    Jorge Estevez

    October 14, 2022 |

    WSB-TV |

    Broadcast TV News |

    3-5 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, Atlanta, Georgia

    Community members are volunteering to help combat school bus driver shortages by training and receiving their CDL to fill the positions and help out the local school district.

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  • Code Plateau is enhancing digital skills of youths but brain drain poses a threat to sustainability

    Johnstone Kpilaakaa

    October 13, 2022 |

    Social Voices |

    Text |

    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: Nigeria, Plateau State

    Code Plateau is a fellowship designed to teach young adults digital skills like digital marketing, software engineering, and data science to help them secure good jobs and help the country into a leading digital economy. Since the fellowship began in 2019, it has trained over 1,000 people.

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  • Money for your education... that you don't pay back! (Solutionaries)

    Jenna Zibton Jeff Perzan Patrick McKee Dylan Trail

    October 12, 2022 |

    Solutionaries |

    Video |

    5-15 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, Virginia

    Virginia’s G3 grant program helps cover education costs for students in the most in-demand industries in the state.

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