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A Year Up: Helping Young Adults Move from Poverty to Professional Careers in a Single Year

By Gerald Chertavian '87

A Year Up: Helping Young Adults Move from Poverty to Professional Careers in a Single Year
  • Publisher: Penguin Random House
  • Available in: Hardback, Paperback, Ebook
  • ISBN: 978-0143123705
  • Published: June 25, 2013
Penguin Random House

There are many good jobs in America—and many urban young adults eager to take them—if they can bridge the Opportunity Divide that strands many motivated workers at the bottom of the job ladder.

In 2000, Gerald Chertavian, a successful technology entrepreneur and banker, dedicated his life and business expertise to founding Year Up, an intensive one-year program that provides otherwise stranded young adults with training, mentorship, internships, and ultimately real jobs. Following a single Year Up class from admission through graduation, A Year Up lets students share – in their own words- the challenges, failures, and personal successes they experience during the program. It is the inspiring story of a pioneering program that is bridging the Opportunity Divide, with results that can fuel our economy and revive the American ideal of equal opportunity for all.


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