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Sunday, August 20, 2006

Youth Culture: Newark Development School for Youth gets corporate support

From Newark Star Ledger:
...At 17, Smith had enough drive to start her first corporate internship. Now a college junior, she is on her second internship, working this summer at insurance company MetLife in Bridgewater. Her determination is typical of students from the Development School for Youth, a 14-week program for disadvantaged young people run by the nonprofit All Stars Project of Newark. Some of those high school students win internships at New Jersey corporations and a chance to crack the Fortune 500. ... During the past six years, 200 high school students have participated in the leadership training program for urban youths ages 16 to 21. Workshops led by senior executives and business professionals train them how to dress for the workplace, interview for a job, write a resume and speak in public.
This summer, more than 60 students received paid internships at more than two dozen New Jersey companies, including MetLife, Prudential and Merrill Lynch.... [
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