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Welcome to our story hub—a place where every voice, experience, and perspective comes together. Here, you’ll find all the stories we’ve shared across the site, from inspiring journeys and insightful interviews to behind-the-scenes moments and community highlights. Whether you’re looking to catch up, explore something new, or simply get inspired, this is your gateway to everything we’ve been talking about.

  • JobsFirstNYC Seeks Director of Post-Secondary Innovation

    To further our mission of leveraging all available community, corporate, human, organization, private and public resources to implement systemic solutions to bring out-of-school and out-of-work young adults into the economic life of New York City, we are seeking a Director of Post-Secondary Innovation. This person will serve an instrumental role in leading the Transfer2Careers (T2C) collaborative.…

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  • Work for Progress Seeks Environmental Campaign Organizer (Newark, NJ)

    Students have been at the forefront of social change throughout history, from civil rights, to voting rights to protecting the environment. For over 40 years, the Student PIRGs have hired year-round, full-time Campus Organizers who help students get organized, mobilized and energized so they can create a greener, healthier, more meaningful future. Our organizers work…

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  • East Brooklyn Congregations Seeks Organizer

    The leaders and organizers of the East Brooklyn Congregations & Metro Industrial Areas Foundation (IAF) build independent citizen-run organizations whose primary purpose is building power that lasts. Metro IAF organizations are made up of people from all races and classes and focus on productive improvements in the public arena that make life, liberty, and the…

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  • Girls for Gender Equity Seeks Policy Manager

    Girls for Gender Equity (GGE) is an intergenerational advocacy organization committed to the physical, psychological, social, and economic development of cisgender (cis) and transgender (trans) girls and women of color and gender nonconforming/non-binary (GNCNB) youth of color. GGE challenges structural forces — racism, sexism, transphobia, homophobia, economic inequality — that work to constrict the freedom,…

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