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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.

  • Savvy Cooperative seeks a Project Manager

    About Savvy Cooperative Savvy Cooperative is helping the healthcare industry create more patient-centered products and solutions by providing a marketplace for patient insights. Companies and innovators can connect directly with diverse patients and consumers to participate in market research, user-testing, discussion boards, co-design opportunities, and more! Savvy is the first patient-owned public benefit co-op that…

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  • Miriam Uribe Martinez Is Going the Distance

    Miriam Uribe Martinez has already come a long way. And she has no intention of stopping now. Born in Mexico, Miriam’s parents brought her to the U.S. when she was seven. She grew up in California, undocumented, like her parents. “My parents worked in factories, in people’s homes, places where they couldn’t complain about unpaid…

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  • Goodwill Advance Bronx & Manhattan Employment Placement and Career Advancement for People on the Autism Spectrum

    Goodwill Advance is specifically tailored to the task of connecting people on the Autism Spectrum to opportunities for both employment placement and career advancement – through assessment, instruction, career discovery, site development, and job coaching – limited to one year of services per person. For eligible Bronx and Manhattan residents on the Autism Spectrum who…

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  • Insight Center for Community Economic Development seeks a Research Assistant

    The Insight Center for Community Economic Development is hiring a research assistant to work on our Let Us Exhale project on a part-time, short-term basis. Let Us Exhale is a project that seeks to improve labor market outcomes for Black women by connecting research to advocacy and organizing to address structural inequities. Let Us Exhale…

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