Strategic Growth Prospectus
Since 1995, Per Scholas has been transforming lives and businesses by bridging talent gaps in technology. After training 30,000 technologists in 30 years, the organization is scaling its impact with an ambitious 2030 plan: tripling annual enrollment, accelerating early-stage tech careers, powering businesses through talent solutions, and strengthening its organizational foundation to magnify our proven impact for years to come.
Read our 2025 Strategic Growth Prospectus here.
Our Sources:
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59 million Americans work full-time but don’t earn a living wage.
- 2024 Dayforce Living Wage Index, Dayforce: 44% of US f/t workers don’t earn a living wage
- Statista: As of September 2024, there were 134 million full-time employees in the United States
10M tech jobs at risk of going unfilled
- Lightcast (proprietary labor market data and analytics)
- CompTIA (2024). State of the Tech Workforce 2024, CompTIA
16% of the tech workforce is Black and/or Hispanic
- CompTIA. (2024). State of the Tech Workforce 2024. CompTIA.
Women account for 28% of the tech workforce
- Beldon, M., Cameron, M., Dubow, W., Hovey, C., Semczuk, P., & Sundar, S. (2024). NCWIT Scorecard: The Status of Women in Technology. Boulder, CO: NCWIT.
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Proven results
8:1 economic return
- Schaberg, K., Greenberg, D.H. (2020). Long-Term Effects of a Sectoral Advancement Strategy: Costs, Benefits, and Impacts from the WorkAdvance Demonstration. MDRC.
Higher earned income, less likely to need government assistance, higher life satisfaction
- Hendra, R., Greenberg, D. H., Hamilton, G., Oppenheim, A., Pennington, A., Schaberg, K., & Tessler, B. L. (2016). Encouraging evidence on a sector-focused advancement strategy: A preview summary of two-year impacts from the WorkAdvance demonstration. MDRC.