Introduction:
Per Scholas was founded in 1995 by a consortium of leading corporations and foundations to build and distribute computers at a discounted rate to schools in low-income communities. Its name derived from the Latin Phrase “for schools’ reflects the organization's dedication to technology education.
Per Scholas launched its New York workforce training operation in 1998 providing the first 102 individuals with technical IT training. Over the next six years Per Scholas grew to train hundreds of students annually with workforce graduation, certification and placement rates well above the national workforce average. Armed with solid workforce experience and a proven training model, in 2004 Per Scholas launched a second site in
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The target region had to have an IT workforce training need currently not being met, and IT job opportunities with strong projections for the future;
2. Local foundation, government and/or corporate funding opportunities had to be available to support the site;
3. Local talent had to be sourced, and come from the target region;
4. There must be fidelity to the program model in key areas specific to recruitment, candidate selection, training, job development, placement, and retention. The importance of fidelity to the Per Scholas model cannot be overemphasized as a critical expansion element, and is supported by a number of reports, including Copy That-Guidelines for Replicating Programs to Prevent Teen Pregnancy (Public Private Ventures, 2006) and Going to Scale: The Challenge of Replicating Social Programs (Stanford Social Innovation Review 2003, Stanford University Graduate School of Business) to ensure success.
Going to Scale - Stanford Social Innovation Review 2003
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Between 2012 and 2016 Per Scholas successfully launched five new sites in four states including Columbus and Cincinnati Ohio, the National Capital Region in Silver Spring Maryland, Dallas Texas, and Atlanta
The Sprout Foundation (TSF) in these years become a large tier 2 charity organisation. The mission of this company is to help third-world communities sustainably improve their lives, by education, clean water and health facilities. Although the organisation grown significantly, with a AUD 117 Million fund turnover per annum, the management, technical and operational areas of TSF IT Systems and policies are unresourced and are not well maintained.
1. First Place Fund for Youths is a California based organization whose objectives are to ensure that youths who have emerged from foster care are able to start a new life with a lot of ease. These objectives include ensuring that these youths obtain discounted housing and assistance in life skills, employment assistance and financial assistance. This financial assistance is via micro-credit system. The other objective of this organization is to ensure that the youths are able to obtain or access education. This education is meant to prepare them for their futures once the support of the organization is withdrawn. 2. The organization has a vast capability to meet its objectives as stated above. The firm has been in existence for quite some time thus helping it to gain much experience on how to handle issues pertaining youths coming from the foster program. One of the strengths of this firm that will enable it to achieve its objectives is the kind of organization structure that it has adopted. There are various programs that will engage youths from various spheres to ensure that they benefit from the activities of the organization. The variety of the programs will enable the beneficiaries to become all round citizens who will be prepared and determined to take their lives to the next level. The organization has the financial resources that will enable it to fund programs like housing and micro-credit. The housing program will see these youths benefiting for a period of two years. The micro-credit shall enable the youths to access loans that will enable them to carry out their activities properly since they will have an opportunity of investing in various businesses. These investments may end up making them productive and he...
The central idea of “A Good Man Is Hard to Find” by Flannery O'Connor deals with the struggle to change a person in a positive way through religion. A person can be easily changed if grace, properly experienced, changes one's personal qualities (O'Connor qtd. in Hendricks). Attempting to change a person through religion becomes difficult when that individual demands to witness a miracle in order to believe: “if the Misfit had been able to see the miracle of Lazarus for himself, he would have believed that Jesus was the son of God, and he would have been able to live a conventional Christian life” (Hendricks).
The Great Gatsby, is beautifully written, and uses symbols effectively, drawing the reader in, and piquing their interest from chapter one to chapter nine. The use of color is most common in the novel, with the use of of many colors the author is able to subtly get his point across. Fitzgerald also uses locations like the Valley of Ash. Objects are used as a way to create mystery and suspense. The symbols help the reader understand the novel better by adding details that make the story more interesting.
• A socially responsible Techfite, will be viewed by Dellberg as a company that is good for their community. Techfite will have the support of the city and have a good reputation, making recruiting and retaining employees far easier. If Techfite follows through with the youth leadership plans it has promised, we will see support, as well as future leaders going into the workforce in the immediate area.
University of Idaho. (2014). Information Technology Services: Appendix 1: ITS Analysis of Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats. Retrieved from http://www.uidaho.edu/its/strategic-plan/appendix-i.
After their Pre-Service Orientation through CNCS, HOLA’s Year 3 VISTA members received substantial training on HOLA’s campus. The VISTAs began with a full orientation from HOLA’s Director of Leadership that included a full campus tour, an overview of each of HOLA’s nine academic and enrichment programs, introduction to each program director and administrative staff member, and an intensive discussion of HOLA’s mission and core values. VISTAs also received orientation and training from HOLA’s Administrative Director and Executive Director. Technical training at their workstations was provided by HOLA’s IT staff. Together, the Development and Communications VISTA members met with the program director of each of HOLA’s programs to receive a targeted training on each program.
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With the fast advances in innovation, a significant number of today 's employments now require more than a high school education or trade skills. Achievement in the workforce is progressively characterized by the capacity to think fundamentally, control a PC, and to work cooperatively in a teaming domain. Today 's school training builds up these capacities, furnishing people with priceless business and individual aptitudes and information,
Posner (2004, p. 36) discusses the importance of understanding the situational factors that lead to the development of a particular curriculum. This curriculum has been created as a response to the problem of technology skills and resources being typically isolated as a separate curriculum, rather than being integrated into the broader curricular areas. This leads to curricula that are often devoid of 21st century skills needed by students to ensure future success (Partnership for 21st Century Skills, 2004). The goal of the curriculum, therefore, is to focus on specific technology skills that can be readily integrated into other curricular areas without sacrificing critical objectives within those curricula and, in fact, enhancing the relevance and levels of engagement in those areas.
There is no doubt that computers are firmly implanted in our nation’s daily existence. Everyday I use a computer at least once, either writing a paper, surfing the Internet or checking my e-mail. On a recent trip to the library to do research I was quickly escorted by a librarian to the variety of computer databases, which are the fastest and most current source of information I found a survey in Statistical Abstracts of the United States comparing students use of computers in kindergarten through college from 1984 to 1993. A total of 27.3% of students used computers in schools in 1984, while a total of 59.0% used computers in 1993. This shows a steady rise in scholastic computer use and these figures are probably greatly inflated by now in 1997.
Despite the challenges that Cynthia Matson faces in her position, she is consistently in the top ten percent of ITT Tech campuses for student job placement and has always made the goal of a minimum 80% job placement rate for new graduates. The key to success in this field is to build a relationship early with students and nurture their goals and desires while working closely with academics to assure students are ready for the workforce. "Companies need people who can come in and get up and running without a lot of investment in time." (Lee, 2001).
A large portion of the increased Internet use, accessibility, and popularity as an educational instrument in the classrooms has been aided by the “Education Rate Program”, also known as the E-Rate Program (NCES, 2000). As of 2001, $5.8 billion has been committed to the growth of Internet access through this single program alone. It was established in 1996, with the goal of making Internet access, service, and connections more readily available to schools at discounted rates, in both urban and rural settings.
In our market the growth opportunity is exponential. There are over 2,000 cities with populations between 20,000 and 350,000 in the US. There are nearly 200 million people in medium markets and 50 million in our initial target market.
Closing the digital divide involves many components, starting with the education program and teachers. While schools are integrating new technologies into their programs, teachers are supposed to keep up with the latest technologies and use them in their curriculum to teach students. According to a U.S. Department of Education Report (1999), only 24 percent of new teachers felt sufficiently prepared to integrate technology into the curriculum they were using (Brogan, 2000). The problem is, many teachers did not grow up with computers and are not receiving the training they need to operate them (Brogan, 2000). Starting work as early as 7 a.m. and leaving school as late as 5 p.m. to go home and do even more work, leaves teachers lacking the time to learn new technological skills. Many schools offer training programs for teachers. For example, the Palm Beach County, Florida school district teaches Web basics for teachers at middle schools and magnet schools (Brogan, 2000). This is a great idea because it is giving teachers the opportunity to learn about technology and it is showing that the school district is interested in helping its employees become better at what they do.