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  • The 2024 Nonprofit Trailblazers
    City & State New York May 21st, 2024
    The 2024 Nonprofit Trailblazers

    The 2024 Nonprofit Trailblazers list recognizes a diverse group of visionary leaders who are carrying out this critical work at mission-driven nonprofit organizations across New York. The list, presented by City & State and its sister publication New York Nonprofit Media, features social services organization officials, executives of philanthropies and activists at grassroots organizations pushing for legislative change.

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  • ‘A sense of pride’: Formerly incarcerated Brooklynites craft custom benches for World Trade Center’s Oculus Plaza
    Brooklyn Paper May 3, 2024
    ‘A sense of pride’: Formerly incarcerated Brooklynites craft custom benches for World Trade Center’s Oculus Plaza

    A Brooklyn-based vocational training initiative recently unveiled a set of custom benches constructed by formerly incarcerated Brooklynites in front of the Oculus at the World Trade Center.

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  • Formerly Incarcerated Woodworkers Make New WTC Benches
    BK Reader May 3, 2024
    Formerly Incarcerated Woodworkers Make New WTC Benches

    The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, in partnership with the non-profit Brooklyn Workforce Innovations (BWI), unveiled 12 new benches outside the Oculus at the World Trade Center. The benches were crafted by eight formerly incarcerated individuals participating in BWI’s Brooklyn Woods program.

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  • WTC Benches Offer a Fresh Start
    The Port Authority of NY & NJ April 25, 2024
    WTC Benches Offer a Fresh Start

    Newly installed benches outside the World Trade Center Oculus were built by eight participants who took part in a 10-week job training program. The benches were built through a partnership between the non-profit Brooklyn Woods and the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey to help formerly incarcerated individuals build woodwork and teamwork skills, while adding a prominent new section to their resume.

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  • If you are looking for a job, this program trains you and helps you find one in New York
    Univision | Nueva York Jan 30, 2024
    If you are looking for a job, this program trains you and helps you find one in New York

    The Brooklyn Workforce Innovations organization offers training to New Yorkers so they can get a good job. To apply, applicants must have a high school diploma, be New York residents, have a work permit and be able to read English. The program is free and lasts four weeks, in which you will be able to acquire knowledge in different areas for your work performance.

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  • How Hundreds of Production Assistants Got ‘Made in New York’
    The City June 28, 2023
    How Hundreds of Production Assistants Got ‘Made in New York’

    Delerme-Lugo is one of 1,100 New Yorkers — predominantly people of color — who have graduated from Made in New York, according to a report released this month by Brooklyn Workforce Innovations and Bloomberg Philanthropies.

    Katherine Oliver, the former commissioner of the Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment who now works at Bloomberg Philanthropies, said the report was commissioned to get solid data on the program, which has expanded to other cities, including Atlanta and Los Angeles.

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