St. Louis Community College has announced students enrolled in the technology training program, NPower Missouri, can now receive academic credit for their hands-on training and paid internships.
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How Karla found career inspiration after the birth of her child. The NPower Program provided Karla with the resources to pursue her career after she withdrew from higher education. With financial support from the Citi Foundation they are helping improve the economic future of women and their communities at large.
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In the initial months following the onset of the pandemic, Verisign made a commitment to invest in skill development in a rapidly changing professional and economic landscape. Mentorship was an important part of that commitment, and that’s what led the Verisign Cares team to partner with NPower in the NPowerMATCH program.
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November 15, 2002 (Washington, D.C.): NPower Texas Executive Director, Jonathan Pride, attended an event at the White House Tuesday to represent NPower in marking the end of the Cybersecurity Apprenticeship Sprint. The event was part of National Apprenticeship Week and the celebration of the 85th Anniversary of the National Apprenticeship Act. There were remarks from senior White House and agency officials on the importance of Registered Apprenticeship in building a skilled and diverse cybersecurity workforce and the accomplishments of the Sprint. Jonathan participated in a moderated panel discussion highlighting the progress and advantages of building cybersecurity talent using Registered Apprenticeship programs. The event concluded with a signing ceremony, all to demonstrate the overwhelming potential and success in promoting Registered Apprenticeships.
As the demand for cybersecurity workers grows to meet the threats to our economy and infrastructure, the President of the United States is committed to seeing a more inclusive, robust, and skilled workforce to protect our personal and national interests. On July 19th at the National Cyber Workforce and Education Summit, the Administration gathered Cabinet Secretaries and major companies, including NPower, to discuss ways to improve pathways into this critical sector, and announced the start of its Cybersecurity Apprenticeship Sprint. Tuesday marked the finish line of the Sprint, an initiative run by the U.S. Department of Labor in coordination with the White House Office of the National Cyber Director, Departments of Commerce, Homeland Security, Defense, and other federal agencies.
According to CyberSeek.org, the cybersecurity market grew at 2.4 times the rates of the rest of the job market in the last year. This leaves nearly 770,000 open cybersecurity positions at all career levels. The nation’s economic and national security is dependent on solving this workforce challenge and employers are turning to Registered Apprenticeships to meet this critical workforce need.
In 2021, NPower New Jersey was the proud recipient of a two-year gift from Bank of America to support nonprofit leadership and sustainability through its Neighborhood Builders program.
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CIO.com recently highlighted NPower’s work in providing professional development programs to help young adults, veterans, and military members and their spouses start and grow a career in IT and featured the powerful journeys of alumni whose lives have been transformed through tech.
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NPower CEO, Bertina Ceccarelli shares a few key learnings from her transition as a corporate executive to a nonprofit leader with Forbes Business Council.
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Grit Daily spoke with Sereyna Wallace, National Placement Director for the nonprofit tech training organization, NPower, about what companies can do now to remain competitive employers in this continuing tech labor shortage.
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Capital One’s Vice President and Head of Product for Omni Customer Servicing joins the national free tech training non-profit board.
