Year Up trains for a ‘middle-skill’ future

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A NEW PATH: Sahel Lopez-Best, center, and Pamela Rodriguez, right, are students in the Year Up Providence business-writing class. Year Up provides young adults from across Rhode Island a path to a career by putting them to work for a year – six months in the classroom learning workplace skills and six months interning in a chosen field. / PBN PHOTO/RUPERT WHITELEY
A NEW PATH: Sahel Lopez-Best, center, and Pamela Rodriguez, right, are students in the Year Up Providence business-writing class. Year Up provides young adults from across Rhode Island a path to a career by putting them to work for a year – six months in the classroom learning workplace skills and six months interning in a chosen field. / PBN PHOTO/RUPERT WHITELEY

Excellence at Nonprofit | Year Up Providence On a Wednesday afternoon, Year Up Providence’s offices are buzzing. Students – mostly minority from families with low incomes – fill out job applications at tables or practice PowerPoint presentations. Others work in teams on soft skills over bagels and coffee. Before this year, many of them had

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