Today, ten graduates completed the Bridges to Careers program, which prepared them to enter rigorous job training with BEST Hospitality Training Center. See the photo gallery below for glimpses of their celebration. Or learn more about Bridges to Careers, run by Mayor Walsh’s
Boston Saves, the City of Boston’s children’s savings account program, has been awarded a $150,000 grant from the Boston Foundation to help fund the next two years of its three-year pilot. The funding will help support a financial incentives program
As a runner on the Roxbury Community College (RCC) track team, Eddie Barreto knows that the measure of a race is the finish. Nearing the end of his first year of college, he is now halfway to an associate’s degree in
The Mayor’s Office of Workforce Development (OWD) has awarded $113,094 in technical assistance grants to four Boston organizations for the integration of workforce preparedness with adult basic education. The OWD issued the grants after seeking input from the Boston Adult
A nationwide delegation of municipal leaders and worker-cooperative experts visited Boston in late March to learn about the city’s exploration of worker-owned companies as a strategy for fighting economic inequality. Worker-owned companies are for-profit enterprises in which employees own a