Year Up: Urban youth from 18 to 24

Monday, August 13, 2007

A model program form Boston is starting to spread across the country.

This initiative, Year Up, provides an imaginative mix of technical and professional skills, college credits, an educational stipend and corporate apprenticeship. In a one year program, urban young adults 18-24 get intensive training with impressive results.

Read more. Here's a Fast Company profile.

You can learn more about Year Up from their web site.

posted by Ed Morrison |

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