‘Commanding Conversations: Ready in Plain Sight’ Event
How This Single Mom Found a Pathway Out of Poverty Into Tech
NPower partner, WWT, a sponsor of the Global Citizen’s Live Festival spotlighted NPower as their charity of choice to demonstrate their commitment to equity and justice. WWT’s Executive Vice President and NPower board member Matt Horner and NPower graduate and WWT employee, Yahaira Moore were featured during the festival.
Continue readingNeed Tech Talent? Look Beyond Computer Science Degrees.
Apprentices and nontraditional candidates add a fresh perspective to tech teams, plus help with diversity and recruiting.
Continue readingHonoring Remarkable New Yorkers at the Robin Hood Heroes Breakfast
Celebrating the Poverty-Fighting Contributions of NPower, Partnership with Children, and Touchdown NYC.
Thrilled NPower graduate and World Wide Technology employee, Yahaira Moore was recognized as one of the Robin Hood 2021 Heroes.
Continue readingPathways to Prosperity | November 2021
Honoring Veterans – On This Day And Every Day. This Veterans Day, we pause to express our deep gratitude and sincere appreciation to our nation’s service members for their brave and selfless service to our country.
Continue readingLeveraging Partnerships to Advance Digital Equity and Foster Opportunity for All Learners
With support from Comcast NBCUniversal, NPower is expanding the Woman of Color in Tech Coalition and Tech Fundamentals, targeted initiatives to put more women of color on strong career paths.
Continue readingProfessional Apprenticeships: Helping Underrepresented People Of Color Get Better Jobs
Our CEO, Bertina Ceccarelli recently shared her thoughts on the apprenticeship model as an ideal approach to build a new pathway to tech jobs with the Forbes Business Council community.
Continue readingQ&A with 2021 40 Under 40 honoree Candice Dixon – Atlanta Business Chronicle
Atlanta Business Chronicle has named our 2021 40 Under 40 honorees. The up-and-comers will be celebrated at an evening awards event Nov. 4. Here’s a Q&A with one of the honorees, Candice Dixon, Coalition Development Director, NPower.
Continue readingPathways to Prosperity | October 2021
The Gala Edition. Over 400 attendees from across the country joined together for a virtual evening of inspiring stories, powerful honorees, and incredible networking. Together, we raised over $1.6 million to create pathways to technology careers for veterans and young adults from underserved communities.
Continue readingCISA AWARDS $2 MILLION TO BRING CYBERSECURITY TRAINING TO RURAL COMMUNITIES AND DIVERSE POPULATIONS
As part of its mission to recruit diverse cybersecurity talent and build the workforce of the future, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has awarded $2 million to two innovative organizations for development of cyber workforce training programs. The awards are the first of their kind from CISA.
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