Persevere Success Stories
What started with one man’s life changing experience, has grown to thousands of life changing experiences for hundreds of men and women in multiple states across the country. And we’re just getting started.
Persevere Turns Justice-Involved to Opportunity-Involved in Georgia
Atlanta Metro Correctional Facility helps 12 men go from justice-involved to opportunity-involved as they graduate with a full-stack coding certificate.
He was the first participant in a unique program. How this man learned coding in prison.
It was 2019, and Alex Marston of Shelbyville had just been released from prison. He was filled with sadness for where he had been and with joy for where he was going.
Today, Marston, who is 34, is more adept at making decisions. Thanks to a prison program, for which he was the first-ever participant, he has a lucrative job writing computer code, a supportive fiancé, a family that is once again whole and his eyes on a dream house…
Epic Games Announces its Apprenticeship Program!
The Epic Games Apprenticeship is now open!
As a reminder, the applications will close at 11:59PM on February 14th, so get your application in as soon as possible. A resume and cover letter/statement of interest is required with your application to be considered. If both or any of those documents are missing from your application, you will not be considered for the apprenticeship. Make sure that you double-check that the documents are attached before hitting submit!
For more information visit: visit www.epicgames.com/earlycareers.
This Nonprofit Provides Tech Training to Incarcerated People So They Have a Better Shot at a Job When They’re Released.
By Gary E. Frank | Triple Pundit | Jan. 17, 2023
With the world’s largest prison population and recidivism rates nearing 70 percent in some states, the question of what to do with formerly incarcerated people after they have completed their prison terms continues to vex the United States.
PERSEVERE Awarded Walmart Grant to Advance Workforce Equity for At-Risk Youth
National Launch Event at SXSW on March 11 Includes Major U.S. Employment Partners Helping to Disrupt the Prison Pipeline Memphis, TN (March 11, 2022) –Persevere, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, has
Drew Crowe & the Transition House
It’s unseasonably cold in Memphis when Drew Crowe pulls into the sparsely populated parking lot in front of the towering Methodist church. Large, imposing, and sporting multiple tattoos, at first
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