In this week's Partner Spotlight, we are excited to feature a short interview with Gaspar Caro, Coordinator for the Lower East Side Employment Network (LESEN). What led you to...
January 27, 2016
New York City Council Economic Development & Small Business Committee Preliminary Budget Hearing – January 27, 2016 Good afternoon Chairmen Garodnick and Cornegy, and Committee members. I am Marjorie Parker,...
January 26, 2016
Last week, JP Morgan Chase & Co. announced the launch of its New Skills for Youth initiative, a global, five-year, $75 million plan to expand career-focused education. It is partnering...
January 8, 2016
Grace Outreach, a nonprofit in the Bronx that offers education and employment services for women of all ages, is putting together its next class/cohort of women for College Prep. College Prep...
September 12, 2014
JobsFirstNYC today launched its first in a series of reports - Innovations in the Field - examining programs supported by JobsFirstNYC that serve both employers that need job-ready workers and...
March 12, 2014
Connected by 25 | by Ytfg Learning by Connections Speaking truth to power. This is the kind of leadership we need if we are going to address the youth...
March 10, 2014
What does success mean to JobsFirstNYC as an intermediary that focuses on young adults in the field of workforce development? In a time when there is much discussion and debate...
April 24, 2012
Commensurate with its mission, JobsFirstNYC has a strategic goal of reducing the number of out-of-work and out-of-school young adults between 18 and 24 years of age by 5% by 2017....
January 24, 2012
Approved by the JobsFirstNYC board of directors on January 24, 2012, this document represents the culmination of a strategic planning process that codified the organization's BHAG (Big Hairy Audacious Goal)...
January 24, 2012
By the mid-2000s, growing recognition of the magnitude of the out-of-school, out-of-work young adult crisis in New York City sparked the publication of several groundbreaking reports. These reports focused attention...
