An adult education classroom is hardly an end unto itself. Adult students attend high school equivalency and English classes – often on nights or weekends or whatever time they can wrest from work and family obligations – because they want
Neil Sullivan pointed to a set of numbers projected before a room of educators, workforce development experts, and life sciences professionals at MassBioEd Foundation. “That doesn’t happen,” said Sullivan, executive director of the Boston Private Industry Council (PIC), looking at
When they walk into Maria Chavez’s Boston Housing Authority (BHA) office, many public housing residents come fatigued by the challenges of poverty, stress, and the uphill battle to improve their situation. Maria embraces them – anyone who enters her office,
Graduates of YOU Boston’s summer employment program gathered yesterday with Mayor Walsh, community leaders, public safety officials, and employers to celebrate the seven weeks they spent working jobs that benefited both the community and themselves. The program participants – all
The Boston Adult Literacy Initiative (ALI) recently launched a new website to streamline access to the initiative’s resources. The new website features the initiative’s programming, events, workshops, job opportunities and more. ALI is a consortium of 29 adult literacy programs throughout the
From the back of the YOU Boston conference room, Khalif McCloud raised his hand to share his thoughts. “Without YOU, I’d still be the street person I was before,” he said. “Without this program, there’s a lot of strife out
Job training programs funded by the Neighborhood Jobs Trust (NJT) have made a significant impact on many participants’ economic well-being, a new report shows. The Fiscal Year 2015 report, released by the Mayor’s Office of Workforce Development (OWD), found that
The Aloft and Element Hotels on D Street in South Boston are the newest, best example of how commercial development, done right, can create a windfall for a community. From its innovative use of Neighborhood Jobs Trust funds to a
When Abdul Barrie founded his own HVAC company, Environmental Systems Engineering, in 2002, he was eager to start drumming up business. “I wanted to be hired because I was capable, not because I was a minority,” remembers Barrie, who is
While Boston’s newest skyscraper, the Millennium Tower, rose higher in Downtown Crossing, the fortunes of Jian “Jenny” Zhen Lao in nearby Chinatown fell further. An immigrant from Guangzhou, China, Lao was laid off in 2015 and spent the better part