by usphilly88 | Mar 23, 2020 | News
by Grace Dickinson, Updated: August 15, 2019 On a recent Monday morning, Shontae Smarr pulled up to Center City’s Snap Kitchen and began shuffling bags of food out of the upscale grab-and-go market into her silver Toyota Camry. After filling the car’s trunk and...
by usphilly88 | Mar 23, 2020 | News
By Lauren Vague Stager, Uplift Workforce Solutions “We ARE here as a group!” is one of the phrases that stuck out as I sat in the classroom of the Uplift Workforce Solutions training center. In early January 2018, the fifth cohort of the program began....
by usphilly88 | Feb 3, 2020 | News
Often, as youth at Hopeworks work to learn HTML, CSS, Javascript, ArcGIS, or other technologies, the technical complexity of the work can be challenging. Other times, the demands of balancing clients, production targets, and learning professional skills while on the...
by usphilly88 | Aug 20, 2018 | News
All who graduate are guaranteed a job at a partnering store. Anywhere from 300 to 500 ex-offenders listened intently during Temple’s open house for a six-week job training program specifically for ex-offenders, which provides them with a rare opportunity for a...
by usphilly88 | Feb 7, 2018 | News
Temple University hosted an open house focused on employment opportunities with several Philadelphia retailers. Read the full story and watch the video on https://philadelphia.cbslocal.com
by usphilly88 | Nov 27, 2017 | News
One in an occasional series, part of a collaborative news project about the challenges and solutions of prison reentry in Philadelphia. In despair, sitting at her kitchen table in Chester, Dayna Chandler, 33, began this calculation: Maybe her three children would be...
