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Video: See How This ‘Guidance Company’ Changes the Lives of Chicago’s Youth

Genesys Works provides young people in Chicago with job training, yearlong paid internships, and a shot at a different life.

In Los Angeles, Environmental Challenges Meet Economic Opportunity for Young People

What One St. Louis Youth Learned from Beating the Odds

By: Eva Harder

How One Young Person ‘Learned Not To Be Complacent With Injustice’

A Leap of Faith

By: Shirley Toy, Junior University of Illinois at Chicago

I was walking down the halls of my high school on a typical school day when Mrs. Maxwell, the career teacher, made a quick announcement about the workforce development program Genesys Works over the intercom.

Be Who You Needed: Lessons from the Field of Workforce Development

By: Kenali Battle, Business Communications Instructor Year Up National Capital Region

“Be who you needed when you were younger.”

Seven Minutes from the World

By Eva Harder

Urban Upbound recently launched a program that prepares young adults living in New York City public housing developments for careers in the city’s growing construction sector. This story is part of a series on the innovative ways that 2016…

How One Tech Nonprofit is Working to Break the Cycle of Poverty in New York

Per Scholas is a nonprofit in New York City that offers free training to low-income adults of all ages interested in the technology sector. The organization recently launched a program aimed…