Sentences with phrase «of nonprofit jobs»

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Andrew Yang is the founder and CEO of Venture for America, a New York City - based nonprofit organization focused on placing top - college graduates in startups for two years in emerging U.S. cities to generate job growth and train the next generation of entrepreneurs.

One of the biggest problems that nonprofit organizations have is finding enough people to get the job done.

When nonprofit folks would say, «We want to work ourselves out of a job,» I don't think they believe that at all, whereas I had reverse «Founder's Syndrome.»

The answer is not straight forward, but as one of New York's largest social services nonprofits with nearly 2,000 employees and constant hiring needs, at The New York Foundling, we know that merely posting on job boards and culling for pedigreed resumes isn't working.

Today's unemployment rate in eastern Kentucky ranges from 9 percent to 12 percent, said Jared Arnett, executive director of Shaping Our Appalachian Region, a nonprofit agency formed in 2013 as a coordinator for economic development and job creation resources in eastern Kentucky.

Since then, Patti has reunited with her estranged father, was investigated herself for possible illegal kickbacks, got fired from her job at a nonprofit, ate a tarantula on a reality TV show in her husband's place, got her insurance licenses and started her own company selling coverage to business owners, and saw a number of friends desert her.

In tandem with the 100,000 Opportunity Youth Initiative, Starbucks has opened four stores with classroom and training space as part of its effort to support local economic development in diverse low - to - medium income communities across the U.S.. Each of these stores creates 20 to 25 new jobs with benefits, partners with a local women - and minority - owned supplier and contractor, and works with local nonprofits to provide job - skills training to youth.

Starbucks also donates 10 cents of each store purchase to the nonprofit Tacoma Goodwill, which provides job training and placement for transitioning veterans through their Operation GoodJobs program.

«Roadmap 2020 not only tells us how to create more jobs — but also how to improve the quality of those jobs, with higher salaries and better benefits, in growing, innovative companies,» said Virginia Littlejohn, CEO and co-founder of Quantum Leaps, the nonprofit that mobilized Roadmap 2020 participants.

Pat Schramm, executive director of the Workforce Development Board of South Central Wisconsin, a nonprofit that uses federal funds to help employees get training and jobs, said a Rapid Response Team will execute a plan right away.

In addition to creating new local jobs, Starbucks will work with nonprofit partners like the Urban League of Metropolitan St. Louis to provide a robust, multi-week job skills training program for local youth, using a specially - designed classroom space within the store.

What's more, almost 2 in 5 parents (19 percent) surveyed said they were unaware of Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF), which can help eliminate debt for parents and students who hold government jobs or work for certain nonprofits.

But data from the nonprofit Center for Automotive Research suggests a 35 percent tariff on imported vehicles would lead to the loss of 6,700 auto industry jobs in the United States due to higher costs.

The stores aim to boost local economic development through the creation of new jobs and by partnering with women - and minority - owned businesses and local nonprofits to provide job skills training opportunities for youth in the community.

Based on what they heard, Starbucks designed a new, more scalable Military Family Store program to link some of its stores with nonprofits that connect veterans with rewarding civilian jobs and with valuable community service work.

My job hunt brought me to the management team of a nonprofit agency.

For the next three years, Haugen studied the problem of violence against impoverished communities, looking for others who were trying to make a difference, learning what it took to start a nonprofit and honing his legal skills — all while maintaining his full - time job.

The Rolex is made by a company that operates more like a nonprofit than a business, and uses parts of its revenue to support charities, assist the blind, provide jobs for craftsmen and fund schools that teach the art of watchmaking.

According to a report from Bourscheidt's Alliance that is meant to encourage policy makers to help the arts industry play a role in rebuilding New York City's economy, nonprofit cultural organizations in the city had an economic impact of $ 5.8 billion in 2005 and generated more than 40,000 jobs and $ 2.2 billion in wages.

As part of parole, Coss had to work with Fortune Society, a nonprofit that showed him how to apply for jobs.

Because of my nonprofit day job, I've heard that many food banks have had dramatic growth in people accessing their services at the same time donations have decreased.

Frustrated by the limited number of people he could help in his job at a nonprofit organization providing services for at - risk youth, Geoffrey Canada in 1999 founded a large - scale initiative eventually dubbed the Harlem Children's Zone.

Amanda: My husband Joel works a full - time job at a nonprofit agency, so all of the woodworking has to happen in the evenings and weekends.

Outside of parenting, Jen is a nonprofit volunteer who holds a part - time job, hits the gym almost every day, and updates Real and Quirky regularly.

If you can get your foot in the door, you'll find a whole slew of party, nonprofit, corporate, and government jobs waiting to be filled.

Alain Kaloyeros lost his job as president of the SUNY Polytechnic Institute (and as head of the boards of the two nonprofits) after the feds charged him in a bid - rigging scheme benefiting a major Cuomo donor.

Now the two nonprofits are at the forefront of Cuomo's initiative to build job - creating technology clusters Upstate.

A new report from FPI looks at the importance of jobs in the nonprofit health care and social assistance sector in New York City, and examines how the hardships facing the city's low - income population — the main constituency served by the nonprofit human services sector — have grown in the wake of the Great Recession of 2008 - 2009 and the weak recovery over the past three years.

Silver also got the Assembly to honor Taub with an official resolution that the speaker presented during a May 2011 event in Manhattan and the next year helped one of Taub's relatives land a job at a nonprofit that got millions of public funds from Silver, court papers say.

Babinec said he has helped create thousands of jobs in Upstate New York, most recently as the founder of Upstate Venture Connect, a nonprofit that connects startup companies with resources.

«The test will be whether communities will recognize the value of and accept these new and improved facilities, and whether the city will pay nonprofits what they need to do these jobs right,» he said.

Hearing the $ 900,000 cost per job figure, Sam Magavern, executive director of the Partnership for the Public Good, a coalition of local nonprofit activist groups, shook his head and sighed.

The City Council's new point person in overseeing the $ 50 billion municipal budget didn't do such a hot job overseeing a nonprofit group at the center of a Council slush fund scandal, records show.

A year later, Silver helped Taub's family member get a job at a nonprofit that received millions of dollars in state funding.

ALBANY — Two years ago, Shahking Gomez was unemployed when his job search led him to the Soundview HealthCare Network, a group of nonprofit health clinics in the Bronx operated by the State Senate majority leader, Pedro Espada Jr..

James Patchett is the President and CEO of the New York City Economic Development Corporation, the city's nonprofit arm dedicated to spurring job and industry growth, managing special

In 2012, the complaint alleges that Doctor - 1 asked Silver for help in finding a family member a job with a nonprofit organization that «received millions of dollars in member items and capital funding from Silver.»

McCray, who does not have a formal job at City Hall but runs the nonprofit Mayor's Fund to Advance New York, is often present and speaks at press conferences announcing new personnel — and did so Monday at the announcement of a new chancellor.

Compound that by the introduction of a new, mandated rate scheme that will prevent nonprofits from accumulating any future reserves, and the likely scenario is that organizations will go out of business, people will lose their jobs and individuals with developmental disabilities will lose services.

But Tom McAlvanah with the Interagency Council, which represents many of the nonprofits in the downstate area, said that even with the subsidies, caregivers are leaving for other jobs where the pay is higher.

The FBI has also been conducting a probe into income that Galante received from a job outside the library and his questionable operation of the nonprofit.

If you're passionate about a particular issue, mission - driven, and — in addition to your passion for science — desirous to improve the state of humanity and the world, you may be a perfect candidate for a job with a nonprofit.

«I get a few job offers a year from O`ahu,... which I never seriously consider, but I just got a very serious offer to be the executive director of a nonprofit whose aim is the restoration of the health of a bay in the area where I grew up.

Phaedra Ellis - Lamkins is the CEO of Green For All, a nonprofit that focuses on increasing job opportunities in green industries.

Mathematics - education researchers also find an open, dynamic job market outside of universities — in government, nonprofits, and commercial outfits.

This publicly funded nonprofit offers early - stage capital and commercialization assistance for the development of technologies that create new products, services, and jobs in Maine.

According to the Workplace Bullying Institute (WBI), a nonprofit organization that advocates for victims» rights, 37 percent of U.S. employees have been bullied at their job, as opposed to 8 to 10 percent who have been sexually harassed.

Her next job will be as the head of «the Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research, a nonprofit created by the 2014 Farm Bill that has federal funding and will aim to match it with private donations for [U.S. Department of Agriculture] research,» Kaiser wrote in a Thursday ScienceInsider.

Most private research institutes are nonprofits, too, but those jobs fit better in a discussion of academic careers.

However, the creation of social enterprises that combine good business sense with a nonprofit mission of employing people with disabilities is a growing movement in creating job opportunities for Americans with disabilities.