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& Description
News Outlet
& Journalist
Date
& Location
MEDIA TYPE
& LENGTH
24 January 2021
Charlotte, North Carolina, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
Inmates to Entrepreneurs has graduated 1 million people from its eight-week program that teaches incarcerated people how to start their own low-capital businesses. An extension of a free online entrepreneurship course...
21 January 2021
St. Louis, Missouri, United States
Broadcast TV News
Under 3 Minutes
St. Louis' Concordance Academy of Leadership turns the traditional approach to prison re-entry programs on its head. Rather than pushing people just released from prison to find housing and a job, the academy pays its...
Christian Science Monitor
Sarah Matusek
13 January 2021
New York, New York, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
Newly arrived immigrants, refugees, and asylum-seekers have found a pathway to employment through Emma’s Torch. The nonprofit eatery pays students to learn culinary skills. The program is an important stepping stone f...
4 January 2021
Thailand
Text
1500-3000 Words
Wat Arun Rajvaram Community Learning Centre, founded on Buddhist precepts by a former monk, has trained more than 250 Thai young women for work as nurse assistants, jobs aimed at keeping them out of the illicit sex tr...
Associated Press
Vahid Salemi
29 December 2020
Tehran, Iran
Text
Under 800 Words
An organization in Tehran, Iran is helping women "looking for work to make handicrafts" by allowing them to use donated sewing machines as a means of becoming self-sufficient despite high rates of unemployment. When t...
22 December 2020
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
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1500-3000 Words
When Pennsylvania's largest medical-marijuana dispensary, TerraVida Holistic Centers, struggled to find enough employees, given the state's ban on the industry's employment of people with marijuana convictions, TerraV...
24 November 2020
New Haven, Connecticut, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
Youth experiencing unstable housing in New Haven, Connecticut can build life skills in exchange for gift cards through an app built by a nonprofit. DreamKit incentivizes positive change for disadvantaged young people ...
20 November 2020
United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
The production model of the documentary Disclosure prioritized diversity, inclusion, and empowering transgender people both on screen and behind the scenes. Over 120 trans people contributed to the film. Nine trans Fe...
19 October 2020
Nigeria
Text
1500-3000 Words
By using an agricultural technique that doesn’t use soil to grow crops, a farmer is upending the traditional farming practices in Nigeria and offering job opportunities to those who might otherwise be unemployed. Hydr...
19 October 2020
Pendleton, Indiana, United States
Multi-Media
1500-3000 Words
In Indiana's maximum-security Pendleton Correctional Facility, the FORWARD program (Felines and Offenders Rehabilitation With Affection, Reformation and Dedication) puts incarcerated men in charge of caring for cats r...
9 October 2020
India
Text
1500-3000 Words
Almost 1000 women across remote and rural areas of India are caring for beehives as a part of the Under The Mango Tree (UTMT) network. The beekeepers have been employed through a social enterprise that aims to provi...
29 September 2020
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
Jumpstart Germantown and five spinoff programs trained about 1,000 people in the art of locally controlled neighborhood rehabilitation. The Jumpstart programs target particular neighborhoods, mainly mid-range housing ...
17 September 2020
California, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
The Fire and Forestry Recruitment Program serves as an intermediary between formerly incarcerated people trained as firefighters and the agencies they seek work from once they have been released from prison. Californi...
26 August 2020
Victoria Island, Lagos State, Nigeria
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1500-3000 Words
A partnership between a Nigerian hospital and a cardiac interventionist group is helping to "bridge the gap in availability of quality cardiac and critical care services" for patients who are in need of care. Although...
25 August 2020
Los Angeles County, California, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
Finding gainful employment after incarceration is hard in the best of times, but during a global pandemic it's even more challenging. A Los Angeles nonprofit, Chrysalis, has been able to place the hard-to-employ job s...
13 August 2020
Los Angeles, California, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
The South Central Leadership Academy was started in Los Angeles by a college student who believes that gun violence survivors like him should lead the community response in finding solutions to violence. Its first yea...
9 August 2020
Paducah, Kentucky, United States
Text
Under 800 Words
Vocational training and life skills classes at the McCracken County Regional Jail help prepare incarcerated people for stable jobs and living situations once they are released. Of the first 16 to complete vocational t...
9 July 2020
Versailles, Kentucky, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
When a pandemic lockdown idled the men jailed at Woodford County Detention Center, they replaced the jobs they previously had performed in the community with work in the jail that served an immediate need: sewing prot...
Science Africa
Leopold Obi
Mary Hearty
22 June 2020
Kenya
Text
800-1500 Words
Kenya's textile industry is finding new purpose and providing jobs to many during the Covid-19 pandemic. Although the industry had previously been nearly obsolete due to the import of clothing, the pandemic has given ...
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...
7 May 2020
New York, New York, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
Hour Children is one of several programs throughout the U.S. that focuses on employing "God-given dignity" to help incarcerated mothers maintain relationships with their children and find sustainable futures after the...
6 May 2020
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Text
Under 800 Words
What started out as a way to help provide face masks to those who needed them during the Covid-19 pandemic, turned into a job skill training opportunity for some refugees in Chicago. Although the funds earned from par...
11 April 2020
Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
Contact tracing, the act of identifying the people that someone infected with COVID-19 has come into contact with to reduce transmission, is front and center for Salt Lake City County’s Infectious Disease and Epidemio...
9 April 2020
Los Angeles, California, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
An innovative partnership between Bell Shelter, a homeless shelter, Grow Good, an urban farm, and the Salvation Army is bringing healthy food and cooking to a new audience in Los Angeles. People experiencing homelessn...
2 April 2020
Baltimore, Maryland, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
In Baltimore, a successful social enterprise collaboration involves employing formerly incarcerated people to deconstruct valuable old wood from abandoned homes, preparing the wood for production, then turning the woo...
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