| Date | Title | Description |
| 07.03.2025 | Stevie® Awards Recognizes ValueSelling Associates and Its Clients for Sales & Sales Enablement Excellence | CARLSBAD, Calif., March 07, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- ValueSelling Associates, Inc. is proud to congratulate its clients on their outstanding success in the 2025 Stevie® Awards for Sales & Customer Service. These prestigious awards honor... |
| 18.04.2024 | Top Five Priorities for APAC CIOs to Capitalise on Generative AI in 2024 Published in Report by Info-Tech Research Group | From right-sized AI governance to enhanced customer experiences, Info-Tech's latest report highlights the top five priorities that CIOs must consider in 2024 and beyond to launch exponential value creation.
TORONTO, April 18, 2024 /PRNewswi... |
| 16.02.2023 | Year Up Receives $4.5 million Grant from Ascendium Education Group to Expand Google Career Certificates Programs in Austin and Seattle | "With the support of Ascendium Education Group, Year Up can continue to develop and scale innovative program models that meet young people wherever they are in their journey to economic self-sufficiency,” said Gerald Chertavian, Year U... |
| 17.06.2022 | Year Up Announces New Austin Site Offering Google Career Certificates and Accelerated Courses to Connect Young Adults with Technology Careers | “Every young adult deserves access to in-demand jobs that will provide economic security and mobility. We are grateful to work in partnership with the Austin community to make this a reality.” - Gerald Chertavian, Year Up Founder and CEO
AU... |
| 09.12.2021 | Splunk : Transforming and Expanding our Talent Pipeline with the Year Up Program | Share:
By Andy Hershey December 09, 2021
With the aspiration of being a great leader and builder of high performing teams, I have found bestselling author and executive advisor Liz Wiseman's books and teachings to be especially valuable. Ba... |
| 29.10.2021 | ELC's IT Function Prioritizes Inclusion, Diversity & Equity to Build a Dynamic Workforce | The Estée Lauder Companies (ELC) believes that diverse backgrounds, experiences and perspectives result in greater innovation and better problem-solving across the organization- and this is absolutely true for the company's IT team. From di... |
| 01.09.2021 | Year Up Partnership with BNY Mellon Offers Internships Program for Pittsburgh-Area Young Adults | |
| 23.06.2021 | News from TrailheaDX 2021: The Future of Salesforce Platform, Revealed | The world is fundamentally changing. For developers, admins, and IT leaders there is increasing pressure to digitally transform more quickly than ever before.
Business users are demanding new apps and processes. And at the same time, employ... |
| 21.06.2021 | SALESFORCE.COM, INC.
Salesforce com : Deepens Commitment to Workforce Development with Reimagined Trailblazer Community, $700,000 Year Up Grant | 3 in 5 say Trailblazer Community helped them get a new job or promotion; new features announced today build on that success
Salesforce also announced a new $700,000 grant to Year Up to help underrepresented young adults learn tech skills an... |
| 16.06.2021 | Year Up Founder and CEO Named a Glassdoor Top CEO in 2021 | BOSTON (PRWEB) June 16, 2021
Year Up founder and CEO Gerald Chertavian has been honored as one of the Top CEOs in 2021 in the U.S. SMB Category on Glassdoor, one of the world’s largest job and recruiting sites. Gerald received a Glassdoor E... |
| 12.05.2021 | Salesforce com : How Salesforce Is Opening the Doors of Opportunity for Untapped Talent | Young people, particularly Black and Latinx individuals, faced the highest increases in unemployment due to the pandemic, making our commitment to untapped talent more important than ever.At Salesforce we define untapped talent as young peo... |
| 22.12.2020 | Year Up New York | New Jersey Announces $250,000 Grant from the New York Jets | “Thanks to Jazmin’s advocacy and generous support from the New York Jets, Year Up New York | New Jersey will be able to serve even more young people in the region who have the talent and motivation to succeed but lack access to opportunity,... |
| 09.12.2020 | Year Up Announces $10 Million Commitment from AbbVie to Create Educational and Workforce Development Opportunities for Historically Underserved Youth and Young Adults | “Year Up’s program helps open pathways and break down barriers of unequal opportunity for Black young adults and other young people of color.” - Karen Hale, Vice President and Deputy General Counsel, AbbVie
BOSTON (PRWEB) December 09, 2020
... |
| 23.09.2020 | Year Up Raises $7 Million in Virtual Event Celebrating 20-Year Anniversary and 30,000 Students Served | |
| 16.09.2020 | Year Up Celebrates 20-Year Anniversary and 30,000 Students Served with Virtual Event on "Powering the Movement" | |
| 24.07.2020 | GeekWire Awards 2020 revealed: Big winners, celebrities and surprises power virtual event | Winners of the 2020 GeekWire Awards make their acceptance speeches on the live-streamed event.
We couldn’t get together in person, but we still found a way to celebrate the best in Pacific Northwest tech on Thursday as the GeekWire Awards w... |
| 22.06.2020 | The Problem With A Volunteer Contact Tracing Army | The contact tracing army so many health experts have called for is off to a slow start. While an estimated 300,000 contact tracers are needed to help expand testing capacity across the country to trace the trail of the coronavirus exposure,... |
| 07.05.2020 | Rapid Innovation For A More Equitable Economy | Over the past several months, businesses have been forced to rapidly innovate to support both workers and customers. If this innovation extends beyond the current crisis, it has the potential to transform our economy and build a stronger ta... |
| 16.01.2018 | Google and Coursera launch program to train entry-level IT support professionals | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
To address a shortage of IT talent in the U.S., G... |
| 16.01.2018 | Google Launches a MOOC to Train Entry-Level IT Support Staffers | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Big tech companies like Google are facing heat for developing disruptive technologies that can make traditional jobs obsolete. But at the same time, the tech industry is growi... |
| 16.01.2018 | Google and Coursera launch program to train entry-level IT support professionals | To address a shortage of IT talent in the U.S., Google announced today that it is launching a Coursera training program for IT support professionals. The Google IT Support Professional Certificate is designed to help students with no prior ... |
| 15.11.2017 | Can These New Colleges Help Solve Higher Education’s Equity Problem? | Young people from families in the top income quartile are eight times more likely than those from the bottom quartile to earn a bachelor's degree by the age of 24. And the problem is getting worse, not better. In its current form, our highe... |
| 22.09.2017 | Meet the 16 Speakers at TEDxProvidence 2017 | TEDxProvidence, an independently organized event that's an offshoot of the popular TED Talks, will host its sixth-annual, day-long event on Saturday, September 30 at The Vets in Providence.
It will feature 16 different speakers, chosen afte... |
| 28.04.2017 | Year Up Wilmington launches to train high school grads for IT and business jobs | “It’s not a handout, it’s a hand up,” Year Up External Affairs Manager Anan Johnson said while describing the Year Up program.
Year Up is a 17-year-old national organization that gives underprivileged young adults, ages 18 through 24, profe... |
| 31.01.2017 | How Year Up put Baltimore youth on a path to IT and cybersecurity careers | Richard Racks recalled working retail and call center jobs.
“I was ready for a change in my life,” the 23-year-old from West Baltimore said. “I was ready for a change in the life of those around me.”
Racks was among 40 students who graduate... |
| 20.06.2016 | GreenLight’s Philanthropic Venture Fund Opens New Office in Detroit | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
In 2011, Margaret Hall, co-founder and national executive director of the GreenLight Fund, first made contact with social entrepreneurs in Detroit. She wanted to discuss the i... |
| 17.09.2015 | Nepris Taps LinkedIn to Bring Industry Experts into Classrooms | More than 350 million people use LinkedIn to network, share stories and, in most cases, find new career opportunities. But the “professional” social media network is also connecting people who have no résumé, skills or are too young to even... |
| 11.03.2015 | Google, Reddit’s Alexis Ohanian Donate $1.75M To Tech Training Non-Profit Coalition For Queens | The truism about tech’s lack of diversity is that it’s a “pipeline” problem.
At least that’s what tech leaders and companies often say when questioned about why their ranks aren’t inclusive enough.
Is it an honest answer? Kind of.
Does it a... |
| 26.02.2015 | SamaUSA Rethinks Workforce Development For The Digital Age in East Palo Alto | Nestled between Silicon Valley suburbs with median multi-million dollar home prices, East Palo Alto is a 28,000-person community that can feel like it has been left by the wayside of the current tech boom. One-third of its adult residents d... |
| 23.07.2014 | Twitter’s Diversity Report Is More Of The Same | Twitter released its diversity numbers on Wednesday afternoon after mounting pressure from civil rights groups — and they’re pretty bad if you’re not a white or Asian guy.
Overall, Twitter’s employees are 70 percent male and 30 percent fema... |
| 16.05.2014 | Year Up: How this program transforms low-income young adults into rising tech stars | Students at the Year Up Puget Sound office in Seattle prepare for a game of IT Jeopardy.
Year Up is a scam.
That’s what Selemun Welderfael first thought when he read about a new program in Seattle that offered computer education, internship... |
| 02.04.2014 | DC’s Year Up Relocates to Bring its Year-Long IT Training Program to More Young Adults | When your organization is as successful as Year Up, growth is inevitable. Since 2006, Year Up National Capital Region (NCR) has tackled what it calls “our American crisis,” expanding its student roster of low-income technology students from... |
| 09.11.2013 | Year Up Helps Give Urban Youth The Training And Connections They Need To Land Hot Tech Jobs | Here in the tech industry, it seems that people are always talking about “how hard it is to hire.” That’s something that can sound a little odd, given that there are still so many unemployed people here in the United States. But the reality... |
| 16.09.2013 | GitHub throws charity event to teach urban young folks to code | No one’s born knowing how to code. But for some reason, learning to code has been dependent on a certain amount of economic power: access to computers and books about coding, reliable Internet access, help from mentors — the kinds of things... |
| 03.12.2012 | EdTech Meetup // Startup Grind // Baltimore PHP [EVENTS] | This week, EdTech fanatics gather again at the Digital Harbor Foundation in Federal Hill to talk about the BmorePipeline and more. On Tuesday, head to Loyola University Maryland for the second installment of Startup Grind (the event origina... |
| 17.10.2012 | Shark Tank meets The Voice: Don’t miss GeekWire’s fall meetup next Tuesday | The talents of Seattle entrepreneurs Jonathan Sposato and Dan Shapiro will be on display at the GeekWire Meetup.
We’re excited to announce the line-up for next week’s GeekWire Meetup and Elevator Pitch, taking place Tuesday, October 23rd at... |
| 09.10.2012 | GeekWire’s Fall Meetup, 10/23: Elevator Pitch & Karaoke for a Cause | Today we’re excited to announce details of our next GeekWire Meetup, starting at 5 p.m. Oct. 23 at the Crocodile Cafe in Seattle. Tickets are available here.
At GeekWire, we enjoy getting the community together and sparking conversation, wh... |
| 20.09.2011 | Social Innovation: Goldilocks and doing well by doing good | Ali Friedman, development director of Year Up Puget Sound, during the SIFP event yesterday. (Photo: Connie Lin)
So a lot of our readers have been kvetching about the tightwads in the Seattle investment scene, but after spending Monday morni... |
| 09.02.2010 | Battle of the Tech Bands 3: Boston vs. Seattle—A Video and Photo Extravaganza | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
It’s not every day you get to see three great East Coast rock bands on the same stage with two amazing West Coast bands—so we made a point of documenting our big fundraiser la... |
| 12.01.2010 | Gearing up for a Bicoastal Smackdown: Xconomy’s Battle of the Tech Bands 3 Coming February 4 | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Xconomy’s Battle of the Tech Bands has become a welcome wintertime ritual in Cambridge: every January or February we get a bunch of loud, enthusiastic musicians together with ... |
| 23.12.2009 | Announcing Xconomy Battle of the Tech Bands 3: Seattle vs. Boston | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Are you tired of this whole East Coast vs. West Coast rivalry? Do you want it settled once and for all? What better way to do so than with a knock-down drag-out fight— with ba... |
