American - Businessman | May 15, 1965 -
You have, unfortunately, a K-12 educational system where the requirements to graduate are not the requirements to be college and career-ready. So if you want young adults who are college and career-ready, our K-12 system right now does not have that as its standard.
Gerald Chertavian
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Many of our students say, 'We wish we had a mentor in high school. We wish we had someone we could spend more time with, who paid more attention to us, who I could sit down with and talk to when I had a problem.' So relationships are critical.
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College today is an expensive option without a lot of economies of scale, right, when you go and live at a college. So you have a system that's increasing its cost base by probably five percent a year.
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I've never been afraid to make a polite ask to someone.
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The millennial generation and a growing number of employees are looking for more than just a paycheck. If a nonprofit could make that easy for me, they are doing me a favor. It's not just a one-way value exchange; it is an internal morale building opportunity.
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It's not always the case that doing what's right is also doing what's smart, but when it is, the question of 'what to do' should be pretty simple.
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At Year Up, our students - low income 18-24 year olds - come to us having already faced substantial obstacles in life. They are not in search of a handout; what they want most of all is the ability to take ownership of their own futures.
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At Year Up, we have helped thousands of students rise from poverty into a professional career in a single year.
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When it comes to expanding opportunity, businesses and young adults are not the sources of the problem - they are a substantial part of the solution.
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As we say at Year Up all the time, investing in our young people is not just a matter of economic justice. It's good business sense.
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I was taught very early on how you treat people is actually what matters.
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When we think about the workplace, people think about hard skills being dominant, but they're not. The employer realizes knowledge will shift quickly, and there's a half-life to knowledge in this world.
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