Bay Area

San Francisco-East Bay Nonprofits Receive $1.4 Million from Bank of America to Promote Economic Mobility

Bank of America today announced $1.4 million in grants to 44 San Francisco-East Bay nonprofits that will advance economic mobility for individuals and families. The grants focus on increasing access to needs related to workforce development and education, as well as basic needs that are fundamental to establishing financial stability.

How Silicon Valley schools are trying to boost lower-income students into high-tech jobs

Internships, contests and engineering coursework give teens from the area’s majority-Latino high schools an entree to STEM careers

Disadvantaged Students Get Life-Changing Work Experience With Top Bay Area Employers

More than 100 students begin internships at 25 companies through Genesys Works
in program designed to close the opportunity and skills gap with support from AT&T

Thinking Differently About Workforce Development

Published on July 22, 2016 Peter Katz Executive Director at Genesys Works – Bay Area It’s fascinating that while the San Francisco Bay Area is often hailed as the center of technical innovation and social change (and deservedly so) many companies are still operating with old and traditional mindsets of workforce development and community engagement. For example, if you sa …

Google Grants A Half Million Dollars to Genesys Works to Expand Pathways To Tech Careers

San Francisco, CA– Google.org has committed $500,000 to non-profit Genesys Works – Bay Area to build pathways to academic and professional success for the youth of San Jose. Since 2013, Genesys Works has provided underserved high school students with technical and professional skills training, meaningful internships at leading Bay Area companies, and college support so they ca …

Genesys Works Expands, Gives Underserved San Jose Youth Pathways to Tech Careers

San Jose, CA – On Friday, May 20, Genesys Works – Bay Area announced an innovative partnership to scale its program and bridge the opportunity gap in Silicon Valley. The local non-profit is teaming up with Google, PwC, JPMorgan Chase, and other Silicon Valley business leaders, and with the East Side Union High School and San Jose Unified School Districts to provide underserved …

Google Grants A Half Million Dollars to Genesys Works to Expand Pathways To Tech Careers

San Francisco, CA– Google.org has committed $500,000 to non-profit Genesys Works – Bay Area to build pathways to academic and professional success for the youth of San Jose. Since 2013, Genesys Works has provided underserved high school students with technical and professional skills training, meaningful internships at leading Bay Area companies, and college support so they ca …

Genesys Works – Bay Area and local corporations celebrate high schoolers’ success at Breaking Through 2015

Annual event to honor underserved high school students and their acceptance into corporate internships will be held October 14, 2015 at 5:30 at the St. Regis Hotel, San Francisco SAN FRANCISCO, CA (September 30, 2015) Genesys Works-Bay Area, a San Francisco-based non-profit that helps put underserved high school seniors on a college and career track through work skills trainin …

Genesys Works – Bay Area Adds PwC Executive Amity Millhiser to Its Board of Directors

SAN FRANCISCO — September 29, 2015 — Genesys Works – Bay Area (GWBA), the San Francisco-based office of national non-profit Genesys Works, announced today the addition of Amity Millhiser, U.S. Markets & Sectors Leader at PricewaterhouseCooopers (PwC), to its Board of Directors. Genesys Works helps end the cycle of poverty for low-income students through extensive training f …

Genesys Works – Bay Area Adds Salesforce President Maria Martinez to Its Board of Directors

SAN FRANCISCO — July 1, 2015— Genesys Works – Bay Area (GWBA), the San Francisco-based office of national non-profit Genesys Works, announced today the addition of Maria Martinez, Salesforce’s President of Sales and Customer Success, to its Board of Directors. Genesys Works helps end the cycle of poverty for low-income students through extensive training followed by placement i …