In the first year of the pandemic, the Mayor’s Office of Workforce Development (OWD) channeled nearly $17 million to more than 120 local organizations that provided job training, education, career coaching, English instruction, youth programming, and other essential services detailed
The City of Boston is launching a new multilingual marketing campaign to support the revitalization of Boston’s restaurant industry. The two-pronged campaign – which will encompass radio, digital, social, and print formats – will encourage job-seekers to pursue opportunities in restaurant work,
The Mayor’s Office of Workforce Development is collaborating with the Mayor’s Office of Economic Development (OED) to create a new Restaurant Revitalization Fund to assist local restaurants in their reopening and recovery from COVID-19. The fund will provide these businesses
Partners for Youth with Disabilities (PYD) didn’t just pivot to remote learning during the pandemic. The program pirouetted into all-new creative territory, revamping its career readiness lessons into playful mini-dramas and travelogues. Some instant classics: A job search lesson from
As part of its efforts to align funding strategies with community needs, the Mayor’s Office of Workforce Development (OWD) recently surveyed a large group of grantees to learn more about programs’ transition to remote and hybrid programming. The findings offer
While many Boston residents spent the pandemic working safely from home, Cleo Cotton headed out the door around 6 each morning to assume her post as an essential worker. In the kitchen of Frederick Pilot Middle School, a Boston Public
Liziana Borges thought she was making a fresh start. Last February, after a layoff from her retail job, she enrolled in a Certified Nursing Assistant course – a decisive step toward her dream of working in healthcare. But the pandemic
The Mayor’s Office of Workforce Development (OWD) distributed more than $15 million from July 2019 – June 2020 to 88 organizations that serve Boston’s workers, according to the newly released Fiscal Year 2020 annual report, Boston’s Workforce Recovery: Resilience and Racial
The Office of Financial Empowerment has launched the Financial Navigator program, in partnership with the Cities for Financial Empowerment (CFE) Fund, to guide residents through resources available to them amid the financial difficulties of the pandemic. Residents can access this
The youth, staff, and partners of YOU Boston celebrated the conclusion of their summer youth employment program on August 13 just as they had conducted it – virtually. A year ago, said Interim Director Jonathan Makrez over Zoom, “I would