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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Economy
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Opportunity Divide doesn't just keep our students disconnected from the mainstream economy; it prevents our businesses from growing.
- Need
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- Nov 07, 2020
Year Up for me is a year in which the young adults that we serve have an opportunity to move up in their lives and gain the access and opportunity they need to realize their potential.
- Behaviors
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- Nov 07, 2020
The saying in business is that, 'You hire for skills and you fire for behavior.' And one would argue that in order to move up in career, to be promoted, to take on additional responsibility, in many ways that's linked more to the attitudes and behaviors that you carry rather than what you know technically about a given subject.
- Right
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- Nov 07, 2020
You have, unfortunately, a K-12 educational system where the requirements to graduate are not the requirements to be college and career-ready. So if you want young adults who are college and career-ready, our K-12 system right now does not have that as its standard.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
College today is an expensive option without a lot of economies of scale, right, when you go and live at a college. So you have a system that's increasing its cost base by probably five percent a year.
- Make
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've never been afraid to make a polite ask to someone.
- Looking
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- Nov 07, 2020
The millennial generation and a growing number of employees are looking for more than just a paycheck. If a nonprofit could make that easy for me, they are doing me a favor. It's not just a one-way value exchange; it is an internal morale building opportunity.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's not always the case that doing what's right is also doing what's smart, but when it is, the question of 'what to do' should be pretty simple.
- Did
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- Nov 07, 2020
Businesses are no longer receiving the cost savings from outsourcing that they once did.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
At Year Up, our students - low income 18-24 year olds - come to us having already faced substantial obstacles in life. They are not in search of a handout; what they want most of all is the ability to take ownership of their own futures.
- Professional
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- Nov 07, 2020
At Year Up, we have helped thousands of students rise from poverty into a professional career in a single year.
- Problem
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- Nov 07, 2020
When it comes to expanding opportunity, businesses and young adults are not the sources of the problem - they are a substantial part of the solution.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Mentors provide professional networks, outlets for frustration, college and career counseling, general life advice, and most importantly, an extra voice telling a student they are smart enough and capable enough to cross the stage at graduation and land their first paycheck from a career pathway job.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
As we say at Year Up all the time, investing in our young people is not just a matter of economic justice. It's good business sense.
- Fall
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- Nov 07, 2020
One can fall into the 'soft bigotry of low expectations.'
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020