Category: News

NPower Names Executive Director to Lead Their Detroit Expansion

NPower has announced Camille Walker Banks will join as the Executive Director leading their expansion into Detroit.

STL.works aims to connect skilled workers with quality jobs in St. Louis

Jeremy Addison is an East St. Louis native and graduate of the NPower program, who now works as an associate service desk analyst at World Wide Technology.

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How Nonprofit ‘NPower’ is Kickstarting Careers in the Digital World

Regina Dombkowski, business analyst at Citi, and Kim Mitchell, VP of Program Development and Operations at NPower, join Cheddar to break down why it’s important to teach tech skills to underserved communities, and how NPower is preparing its talent for a career in the tech field.

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3 Ways Women of Color Sabotage Their Tech Careers

NPower’s Kim Mitchell discusses support systems for women of color working in the tech industry in this Forbes piece.

Cybersecurity Has Over 300,000 Open Jobs — These Two Nonprofits Are Training Brooklynites To Fill Them

Here in Brooklyn, The New York Community Trust, the region’s community foundation, is funding two national nonprofits — Per Scholas and NPower — to close the gap.

There are 700,000 Open Tech Jobs in the U.S.

Here is how companies can fill them. NPower was included in a CNBC article by Wendy M. Pfeiffer, CIO of Nutanix.

Givewith Gatherings: A Discussion on Diversity & Inclusion in Tech

NPower’s Associate Director of Corporate Partnerships, Matt Velez, shared his perspective on how tech companies and non-profits can partner for industry success.

Where Recruiting Intersects with Social Good and Philanthropy

Insights from the From Day One Brooklyn Conference

How to Leverage Non-traditional Talent and Develop Diverse & Inclusive Hiring Pipelines

NPower’s VP of Partnerships, Patrick Cohen, was joined by Accenture’s Steve Murphy (NPower board member) and Darnel Thompson (NPower alum) for a conversation on how to recruit and retain non-traditional talent.