Title
& Description
News Outlet
& Journalist
Date
& Location
MEDIA TYPE
& LENGTH
26 November 2021
Cottonwood, Idaho, United States
Text
Over 3000 Words
Idaho's nine prisons have more than 30 postsecondary educational programs geared to helping incarcerated people get hired in career-track, technical jobs after their release from prison. The prisons focus on jobs in d...
Reasons to be Cheerful
Ryan M. Moser
18 November 2021
Miami, Florida, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
At Florida's Everglades Correctional Institution, incarcerated men teach a course offered through a college correspondence school that can lead to certification to work as a wastewater treatment plant operator, a well...
1 February 2021
Bianco, Calabria, Italy
Text
1500-3000 Words
Italy's first tuition-free cooking school gives unemployed young people in the economically challenged region of Calabria a career path – and a culturally resonant alternative to working for the region's organized cri...
New Haven Independent
Maya McFadden
10 September 2020
New Haven, Connecticut, United States
Multi-Media
800-1500 Words
Gateway Community College in New Haven, Connecticut is adapting a class that's pretty difficult to take online—automotive repair. Although 90 to 92% of the college's classes continue remotely, the automotive repair cl...
2 June 2020
Henderson, Nevada, United States
Text
Over 3000 Words
Western Governors University in Henderson, Nevada is one of many educational institutions in the United States redefining how students can get degrees through technical skill-oriented programs. Students can obtain cer...
18 January 2020
Lost Hills, California, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
Owners of the Wonderful Company food conglomerate honed their philanthropic efforts on the community they saw had the most need—their own workers' families—by establishing charter schools to improve the quality of lif...
The Laconia Daily Sun
Roberta Baker
29 November 2019
New Hampshire, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
A training and apprenticeship program provides the skills and experience needed by people living with disabilities to find employment. Project Search is a nationwide initiative that identifies the strength and aspirat...
21 October 2019
McLoud, Oklahoma, United States
Text
Under 800 Words
Oklahoma’s Mabel Bassett Correctional Center is seeing its first graduating class of women coders. A nonprofit called The Last Mile offers training programs for incarcerated individuals with the goal of equipping them...
26 July 2019
Bidibidi, Uganda
Multi-Media
Under 800 Words
YOYO Youth Vocational Training and Recreational Center is a vocational school in Zone 3 of Bidibidi, the largest refugee settlement in the world. The school is a product of a partnership amongst organizations such as ...
28 June 2019
Gorham, Maine, United States
Broadcast TV News
Under 3 Minutes
Scholarships and grants can help students who are looking to being their careers after high school to succeed. In Maine, the Maine Blue Collar Scholar Fund provides financial support to high school graduates who wish ...
Model D
Patrick Dunn
26 March 2019
Detroit, Michigan, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
There is a lack of new and local talent in the mobility industry, so the Michigan Mobility Institute started the Detroit Mobility Lab to issue master's degrees in mobility after a 9-12 month program. The Lab partners ...
29 January 2019
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
Pennsylvania State Treasurer Joe Torsella launched two initiatives to help middle income families save money. The first is an awareness campaign called You Earned it Philly, which aims to encourage the over 50,000 peo...
2 January 2019
Helinski, Finland
Text
800-1500 Words
The government of Finland is positioning its country as the leader in practical applications of Artificial Intelligence technology by providing its citizens with a free course. Recognizing the potential in AI technolo...
Apolitical
Anoush Darabi
24 December 2018
Victoria, Australia
Text
Under 800 Words
As climate change has led to more frequent droughts and volatile weather in Australia, climate-dependent jobs like farming are increasingly imperiled. In response, the Australian state government of Victoria launched ...
13 November 2018
Providence, Rhode Island, United States
Radio
Under 3 Minutes
Researchers are using an approach that has reduced unsafe drinking on college campuses and applying it to preventing sexual assault and harassment by giving students actual facts about what their peers are doing and t...
25 October 2018
Swan Island, Oregon, United States
Multi-Media
1500-3000 Words
Inclusive training programs help immigrants fill the demand for middle-skill workers. Programs, such as a maritime welding course in Oregon, allow immigrants to learn new skills, gain certifications, and access career...
30 September 2018
California, United States
Text
Under 800 Words
Amidst the rise of new forms and packages of higher education, a traditional four year college with no computer science department of its own and a coding boot camp are joining forces. Students at Dominican University...
29 August 2018
San Francisco, California, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
Building on the Last Mile program that teaches inmates to code in some California prisons, Slack launched an apprenticeship program for the formerly incarcerated. It's a small initiative compared to the vast need, but...
9 August 2018
Uganda
Text
800-1500 Words
In 2005 refugee youth at the Kyangwali Refugee Settlement, founded the Coburwas school in order to provide students with a better education. Now, it is one of the best performing schools in the camps, ranking in the...
26 July 2018
Dallas, Texas, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
Dallas' Paul Quinn College is changing the dated perception of work colleges. At the first urban and historically black work college, students are graded on both academic and workforce performance. In the next few yea...
10 July 2018
Pennsylvania, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
A number of states have passed reforms aimed at helping people coming out of incarceration get licenses that are key to well-paying jobs, which in turn help people stay out of prison. But there are still numerous hurd...
5 July 2018
Gaza City, Palestine
Text
Under 800 Words
A coding academy in Gaza in the Occupied Territories trains young people computer skills and how to think like entrepreneurs, in a quest to offer alternative futures beyond endless conflict. With support from internat...
Christian Science Monitor
Stéphanie Jacob
14 June 2018
MARRAKESH, Morocco
Text
Under 800 Words
The Marrakesh-based Amal for the Culinary Arts offers Moroccan women from disadvantaged backgrounds free training in order to become culinary chefs. Through the program they get hands on experience. They also help the...
11 June 2018
Wasilla, Alaska, United States
Radio
Under 3 Minutes
A welders union in Alaska is helping fill vocational gaps for prisoners by bringing actual welding equipment to a correctional center so inmates get real-world experience. Although they work with virtual training prog...
17 April 2018
New York, New York, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
Coding positions can provide a stable job with a middle class salary, however—due to a lack of opportunities, the cost of education, and the culture at tech companies—women and especially women of color have a difficu...
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