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January 30, 2018
Stem the Flow: Breaking the Opportunity Divide

Reimagining the School-to-Work Experience for Transfer High School Students   A JobsFirstNYC and New Visions for Public School Convening Tuesday January 30, 2018 from 3:00-5:30 p.m. at New Visions for...

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December 20, 2017
Marjorie Parker, President & CEO of JobsFirstNYC Delivers Keynote Speech at MetCal Foundation in Toronto, Canada

Marjorie Parker, President & CEO of JobsFirstNYC spoke to an audience of government policy-makers, funders, and practitioners in Toronto Canada in October 2018, as the keynote at the MetCal Foundation’s...

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November 2, 2017
JobsFirstNYC Convenes Leading Employers to Discuss Alternative Screening Practices

Following the release of Online but Disconnected: Young Adults’ Experiences with Online Job Applications, JobsFirstNYC convened employers, workforce practitioners, policy-makers, and thought leaders to lift up the report’s findings that...

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October 5, 2017
As JobsFirstNYC Marks Its 10th Year Our Mission Remains, the Work Evolves

Message from Marjorie Parker, JobsFirstNYC President & CEO  Please fill out this 7 question survey aspart of our Strategic Inquiry process I am pleased and honored to have been appointed...

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August 15, 2017
From Hollywood to Capitol Hill: The Future of Americans with Disabilities

  There are many barriers that prevent people living with disabilities from accessing the employment market, most are often based on misconceptions of a disabled person’s abilities. As a labor...

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August 8, 2017
Adapting to the Future of Work – Summary & Highlights

With recent changes in technology, including a heavy uptick in automation and the proliferation in machine-learning, the employment landscape has undergone profound changes. As a result, young people are adapting...

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June 12, 2017
Beyond the Double Bottom Line: Building Value through Employer Networks

Significant and ongoing changes in the labor market mean that effective workforce strategies must involve new collaborative structures to engage employers more deeply. In order to improve the effectiveness of...

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June 5, 2017
Raise the Age: New York’s Recent Juvenile Justice Reforms

“No area of domestic policy...has been so thoroughly abandoned to misinformation, overstatement, over-simplification, emotion and disregard for consequences as has the area of juvenile justice.” – Douglas Nelson, Annie E....

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April 24, 2017
Place-Based Initiative: Bedford-Stuyvesant

On Tuesday, April 18th JobsFirstNYC partnered with Council Member Robert Cornegy's office to hold a town hall meeting for workforce providers and stakeholders focused on District 36, comprised of Bedford-Stuyvesant...

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April 21, 2017
JobsFirstNYC Announces New Executive Director

The JobsFirstNYC Board of Directors is pleased to announce that after three years of leadership in the role of deputy executive director, Marjorie Parker has been appointed as Executive Director of JobsFirstNYC, effective July 1, 2017. Over the course...

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