On Wednesday, March 31, 2021, President Biden unveiled his American Jobs Plan, a $2 trillion investment in physical and social infrastructure improvements, including a $100 billion investment in workforce development....
April 7, 2021
The latest in our Innovations in the Field series is co-published between JobsFirstNYC and New Visions for Public Schools, and tells the story of the first two years of the...
April 1, 2021
The Bronx Opportunity Network (BON) is now a member of the Bronx Transfer Affinity Group (BTAG), a group of CUNY institutions working on student transfer between community college and senior...
March 18, 2021
While 2020 brought the long-standing, ugly issues of exclusion and inequity to the forefront, 2021 has given us a wonderful opportunity to examine ways to integrate Diversity, Equity and Inclusion...
March 4, 2021
The Jerome Avenue Rezoning Collaborative (JARC) that was established in 2020, had its official launch on February 23, 2021. JARC was created in response to one of the most recent...
February 18, 2021
JobsFirstNYC is honored to be a beneficiary of Kelley Drye’s Task Force on Racial Equity’s fall fundraising campaign. JobsFirstNYC was chosen alongside the Campaign for the Fair Sentencing of Youth,...
February 18, 2021
In mid-November 2020, JobsFirstNYC launched our Agenda for Young Adult Workforce Development with a committee of over 40 multi-sector leaders from across the field. These leaders came together with JobsFirstNYC...
February 5, 2021
Why We Continue To Celebrate Black History Month At JobsFirstNYC, many of the young adults whose lives we aim to help shape are Black Americans, and only recently is...
January 7, 2021
On December 3, 2020, the Green Economy Network hosted their second partnership design meeting, focused on the Investigate Phase of the JobsFirstNYC Process. In this meeting, the group explored labor...
January 7, 2021
On October 27, 2020, NYC's first Green Economy Network was launched as part of a broader collaborative effort anchored by JobsFirstNYC, Green City Force, The HOPE Program, and Nontraditional Employment...
