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News October 30, 2020

Diverse by Design 2020

The Diverse by Design 2020 conference was reimagined as a three-part virtual series event featuring industry C-suite leaders who explored new approaches to building sustainable business growth in a post-COVID economy. Featured panelists included Jay Alvather (President, TEKsystems), Hardmon Williams (Vice President, AT&T Believes), and Janet Pope, North America Corporate Responsibility Director, Capgemini.

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Press Release October 22, 2020

Keyfactor and Per Scholas Announce Partnership to Drive Skills Training and Diversity in Cybersecurity

Per Scholas partners with Keyfactor to increase skills training and diversity in the cybersecurity field.

"Per Scholas is proud to be working with Keyfactor to improve diversity in the tech industry and advancing economic equity for communities of color who are highly underrepresented in the tech field,” states Caitlyn Brazill, Executive Vice President, Development

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News October 19, 2020

Unpacking the unconscious bias of “scale” in education

Op-ed from Per Scholas President & CEO Plinio Ayala and Jake Schwartz, co-founder of General Assembly that explores the scalability of online learning in today's academic and training environments in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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News October 2, 2020

Capital One Commits to Catalyze Economic Growth

Per Scholas Champion Partner Capital One commits $200 million in a five-year initiative to close #equity gaps in equity and help people gain better access to #socioeconomic opportunity.

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News August 12, 2020

#RisingTogether with Barclays

Champion Partners such as Barclays played an instrumental role in supporting our transition to remote learning. Read how our organizations strived to meet the challenges and continue to serve communities across the US through the COVID crisis.

News July 25, 2020

Reskill and Restart powered by a Consortium of Partners led by Infosys

Per Scholas joins Reskill and Restart, a consortium led by Infosys to provide free, online training to reskill the American workforce and fulfill employment needs following the COVID-19 pandemic.

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News July 13, 2020

Per Scholas advances as a finalist in $10 million dollar Economic Opportunity Challenge

Per Scholas is one of five finalists that will advance in the Economic Opportunity Challenge, a competition for a $10 million grant to improve economic opportunity for low-income individuals within the United States. We partnered with MDRC and The Financial Clinic, Creators of Change Machine for this proposal which was selected from a pool of 160 applicants, representing our work focused on workforce development, asset building, and policy.

Visit our proposal webpage below and check out our video submission.

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News July 13, 2020

The Pandemic Has Accelerated Demands for a More Skilled Work Force

Throughout the first half of the year, the coronavirus rapidly upended and altered the American #workforce across industries and causing drastic economic changes on the local and national level. Retraining and workforce development efforts such as Per Scholas are prepared to equip new talent to meet new employment demands accelerated by the pandemic.

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News July 6, 2020

Per Scholas in Road Trip Nation, “To Be Determined”

Last year, our very own Per Scholas alumnus Taiheem Wentt was chosen to participate in a very special experience: Along with two fellow workforce development program alumni, he traveled the country with Roadtrip Nation to interview software engineers, CEOs, political campaign managers, and more, all of whom kickstarted their careers through a workforce development program.

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News July 1, 2020

Letter from Plinio Ayala, President & CEO

Per Scholas president Plinio Ayala shares an open letter to current students, calling for an end to systemic racism, and encouraging greater dialogue in our path to healing.