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26 Aug. 22
Students worldwide are questioning how to get into specific careers, and it can be even more difficult for underrepresented youth to get the answer. That inspired Jared Chung to start CareerVillage.org, a nonprofit on a mission to democratize access to career information, in 2011. Over 6 million people from 190 countries have been engaging with each other on the platform so far. We recently sat down with Jared to learn more about how CareerVillage is using technology to reach more people and mak
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22 March 22
While our total volunteer hours declined in fiscal 2021 due to the pandemic, many employees embraced virtual volunteering, as well as other remote and digital options to make a difference. During a year in which most employees worked remotely and faced significant challenges, we are proud of the many ways—both big and small—our people continued to step up and take action. For example, Cisco employees Provided personalized career advice to students through CareerVillage.org...
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1 March 22
CareerVillage.org corporate partner, TekStream, joins in the celebration of the 100K volunteer milestone.
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23 Feb. 22
Women in CyberSecurity (WiCyS) is organizing its 9th Annual WiCyS Conference at Huntington Convention Center of Cleveland between March 17 and 19. This year's conference theme is Being Smart about Security and Privacy of All "Smart" Things, where conference participants will discuss privacy and security concerns associated with smart technologies and cyberspace.
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11 Jan. 22
CareerVillage.org featured by Teach For America as a way to give back on MLK Day of Service.
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10 Dec. 21
Mitchell said, “Using CareerVillage’s online platform, students will be able to get high-quality career advice from professionals in our area. The data and insights provided by the platform will help us better identify student career interests and how to provide more targeted support.”
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23 Sept. 21
Announcing CareerVillage.org's new partnership with MassHire Franklin Hampshire County Workforce Board.
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21 Sept. 21
Special Projects Manager, Rebecca Gitomer, spoke to The Lisa Show about CareerVillage.org, why our work matters, and how to get involved.
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7 July 21
Verizon recommends volunteering to support students during summer months on CareerVillage.org. "You will have the opportunity to make a scalable impact, providing career advice to individual students, with the potential to reach hundreds to thousands of students on our open access platform. Together, we can introduce even more young people to careers they may never have dreamed existed and do not know how to enter."
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12 Jan. 21
CareerVillage.org mentioned as a career/professional support resource
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11 Jan. 21
CareerVillage.org featured as a volunteering program used by Verizon to honor MLK Jr. Day 2021
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7 Oct. 20
Good Housekeeping magazine included CareerVillage.org in their list of best virtual volunteer opportunities you can do remotely.
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27 July 20
In the spirit of reaching impact at scale faster, we rounded up our top five lessons to take to heart if you want to turn your world-changing idea into a tech nonprofit.
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18 June 20
While the pandemic has put in-person mentoring on indefinite hold, a growing number of older adults are finding virtual ways to make and broaden meaningful intergenerational connections. Here are five of their stories
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20 May 20
“Stay home, stay safe.” When it comes to the heightened vulnerability of America’s elders in the face of Covid-19, these are often wise words. But the unwritten injunction might as well be “Stay home, stay safe, and stay out of the way.”
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6 May 20
The Clinton Global Initiative Action Network identified CareerVillage.org as one of the great ways you can support communities in need by making a small but meaningful difference in the lives of others.
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14 April 20
One of AT&T’s core values is to be there when people need us. Our response to the COVID-19 pandemic is rooted in that belief. Below is more information about how we’re supporting families and educators dealing with school closures and social distancing.
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14 April 20
In today’s lexicon, “dog days” conjure dreamy images of lazy canines and humans alike, basking under the summer sun. But it turns out that the phrase originated in ancient Greece, where it referred not to actual Mediterranean dogs but to the particular moment—at the height of summer—that the “dog star,” Sirius, rose before the sun.
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23 March 20
The COVID-19 crisis has made it pretty much impossible for older adults to provide face-to-face mentoring and support to young people. Still, many nonprofits are scrambling to find ways to connect the generations now.
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23 March 20
The COVID-19 crisis has made it pretty much impossible for older adults to provide face-to-face mentoring and support to young people. Still, many nonprofits are scrambling to find ways to connect the generations now. Here at Encore.org (a nonprofit focused on bridging the generational divide)
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2 March 20
Which degree should I get? Do I need to go to college? How can I prepare for an interview? What makes a good engineer? How do I learn about technology? Is this a good career for women?
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3 Dec. 19
What happens when 500+ professionals spend one hour collaborating to creatively support one nonprofit’s success? In May of 2019, New Relic did just that.
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31 July 19
Today’s growing knowledge-based economy requires new approaches to ensure the next generation of professionals is equipped to lead thriving careers of their own. But too often, access to the resources and knowledge needed to prepare for professional life in this economic landscape is constrained by under-resourced schools and communities
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2 May 19
A high school sophomore from a disadvantaged background dreams of becoming a neonatal nurse. But the resources available to her don’t provide much information about how to make that dream a reality, and she doesn’t know any nurses to ask for advice. Internet searches turn up a flood of information, much of it not relevant.
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21 Jan. 19
Think back to when you were a teenager. Did you have questions about your future? Well…you weren’t alone. More than 1 in 3 students who are at risk of not graduating high school grow up without an adult mentor to help them find the answer to their career questions.
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9 Aug. 18
Harvard Business Review article highlighting CareerVillage.org's sustainable model.
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25 July 18
Visible, an app-based mobile phone service, chooses nine startups to participate in Visible Connect, a social good program designed to expedite growth for early-to-mid-stage nonprofit startups.
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14 Feb. 17
Three years ago, my co-founder Kevin Barenblat asked me why there weren’t more Khan Academies and Wikipedias. He wanted to know why more nonprofits weren’t building software to create social change at scale. At the time, my answer was that the nonprofit startup universe didn’t look anything like the tech startup landscape.
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26 Jan. 17
CareerVillage.org is an online platform that allows students to ask questions and ask for career advice. The site recognizes the topic of every question, and it matches them with the right members of a pool of over 16,000 professionals, who volunteer to help kids by answering their questions as thoroughly as possible.
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8 Sept. 16
Impact investing is red-hot right now, especially in the education space. But while this approach has long fueled the development of new education technology tools, impact investing is being applied to other ed challenges, too...And globally, there's intense interest around impact investing as a way to scale low-cost private schools in developing countries.
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27 May 16
In a recent Brookings paper on social mobility, Melissa Kearney and Phillip Levine illuminate an intangible, yet severe, consequence of income inequality: economic despair. In cities or states with wide disparity between the low- and middle-income brackets, high school students, particularly boys, appear more likely to drop out of school.
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13 May 16
More than 1 million users. Sixteen billion monthly page views. Ninety-nine percent user engagement. If these sound like stats from tech companies, you’re right. Except these tech companies are nonprofits. In Steve Case’s new book, The Third Wave, he argues that this next generation of the Internet will transform major industry sectors and become integrated into everything we do...
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11 May 16
CareerVillage, a nonprofit that aims to help low-income students better prepare for their future, is teaming up with Dell to produce TechWeek, an online networking campaign from May 16 to 20. Dell is giving CareerVillage $100,000 to aid in its mission, and the tech giant has also committed tens of thousands of its employees to provide advice and encouragement to students participating in TechWeek.
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9 May 16
...The strategic social investing strategy also includes identifying unique innovations aligned with the Foundation’s goals. As part of this work, the first Lumina Social Innovation Prize was awarded to CareerVillage, an online platform where students ask career questions that are answered by real people sharing their experiences.
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7 Jan. 16
The Great Recession delivered a body blow to our country’s financial equilibrium, and only after years of painfully slow recovery have housing prices begun to stabilize and the unemployment rate steadily fallen. But while the economic crisis has abated, it remains a devastating morass for many, especially young adults, ethnic and racial minorities, and lower income families.
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10 Nov. 15
Yet another meal delivery startup has debuted in San Francisco. But it's not valued at millions of dollars, and its founders won't ever get rich. Why? It's a non-profit that delivers donated food to people in need.Feeding Forward, as it's called, and eight other startups recently graduated from Fast Forward, an accelerator program in San Francisco that works exclusively with non-profit tech startups.
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29 Oct. 14
Boston-based startup accelerator program MassChallenge awarded $1.75 million to 16 startups at its annual startup awards ceremony Wednesday evening. Several other startups were awarded additional funds as part of the program's sidecar prizes.
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27 Feb. 13
We’ve often heard parents and educators quip that today’s young people are digital natives — a generation of youth who can rent movies on iTunes and buy school supplies on Amazon before they’re out of preschool. These tech-savvy kids seem to live and breathe digitally.
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