Alex Peay joins 100K Opportunities Initiative after founding and directing for the last nine years Rising Sons, a youth empowerment, civic engagement and employment nonprofit in Philadelphia. Alex attended Ursinus…
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Four years after its formation, the 100,000 Opportunities Initiative (“100K”) has assembled a broad coalition of private, public, and non-profit partners to raise the profile of opportunity youth (young people…
By Susan McPherson– Contributor, Forbes Earlier this year, I asked industry experts to share their CSR predictions for 2019. Aron Cramer, President and CEO of BSR, said: “2019 will (again)…
New report charts a strategy to reach the goal of hiring one million opportunity youth.
Broad success connecting opportunity youth with employers!
Coalition set to launch region’s largest long-term effort to bring jobs to opportunity youth.
The city is joining with a private sector group for a job fair on May 3. Experts say that a disproportionate share of young people are not in the...
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By Parrish Walton – Georgia Public Broadcasting Did you know there are more than 110,000 “opportunity youths” in the metro Atlanta area alone? Did you know there was such a group at…
The 100,000 Opportunities Initiative™ – a coalition of more than 50 U.S. companies including FedEx, HMSHost, Starbucks, Yum! Brands, Walmart and more – has picked Atlanta for its next Opportunity…
By Phil W. Hudson – Staff Writer, Atlanta Business Chronicle A coalition of more than 50 U.S. companies including FedEx Corp. (NYSE: FDX), Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq: MSFT), Starbucks Corp. (Nasdaq: SBUX) and Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (NYSE: WMT) have…