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SiskiyouWorks, working in partnership with the Siskiyou County Office of Education, was recently awarded nearly $519K to prepare students for careers.

The Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness, the Honourable Bill Blair, confirmed that the Government of Canada has approved an extension

/CNW/ - Today, the Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness, the Honourable Bill Blair, confirmed that the Government of Canada has received...

The four-year effort will focus on improving data collection—especially around race and ethnicity—and training a more diverse health informatics and tec...

Webinar Goal May 26, 2021 Join Next City and Living Cities for the second installment of our three-part live webinar event on public procurement, race, and the pandemic. Businesses owned by people of color are the hardest hit by the pandemic and its economic fallout. Commitment to inclusive procurement is an obvious way to ensure that the eventual recovery from COVID-19 includes or starts in the hardest-hit communities. Even now with looming budget deficits, procurement is a tool to mitigate di...

In cities and states that don’t have legal grounds for race-conscious procurement policies, how can race-neutral policies work to expand city government’s contracting with businesses owned by people of color?

Bennett Horne Special to the Paris Express For some youth services agencies, January is an important month because of its billing as National Mentoring Month. Janice Justice, the executive director of Comprehensive Juvenile Services, Inc., also likes it because it sheds more light on her organization’s new mentoring program: Operation Positive Direction. Comprehensive Juvenile Services holds a contract with the Division of Youth Services, which is a division of the Department of Human Service...