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Walmart Foundation Awards League for Innovation $3.5 Million to Support Job Skills Training
The Walmart Foundation has awarded a $3.5 million grant to the League for Innovation in the Community College for a second Walmart Brighter Futures Project. One of the project’s goals is to provide low-income adults and older youth the skills necessary to obtain middle-skill jobs enabling them to become financially self-sufficient. The second goal is to develop a model that will provide project participants with confidence that they have acquired the skills needed by employers and that will empower them to document those skills and communicate them effectively to employers.
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Member Spotlight: Helena College University of Montana
Kristin Grue is a teacher for the Access to Success program at Helena College University of Montana. The program aims to re-engage youth who have dropped out of high school, by bringing them to college.
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Member Spotlight: Phoenix College
Phoenix College Math Professor Innovates for the YouTube Generation.
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