Roots of Success Founder and Executive Director Dr. Raquel Pinderhughes returned today from a three-day trip to Southern California, where she attended the California Workforce Association’s annual Youth Conference and led a workshop on “The Missing Link in Connecting Youth with Green Jobs”. The conference, which wrapped up Thursday afternoon with a rousing address by Larry Robbin … Continue reading »
Roots of Success’s partner in South Africa, Green Talent, has signed on as a Flagship Project to ‘110% Green‘ — an initiative of the Western Cape Government that is bringing together a total of 61 projects to mobilize citizens of the province to “commit and act in practical ways that have a positive impact on the province’s environmental and economic growth.”Green Talent will be supporting … Continue reading »
Last week, staff from the Otesha Project UK began teaching Roots of Success to Inmates at London’s Wormwood Scrubs Prison. Tamsin Robertson and Hanna Thomas, Otesha’s Roots of Success instructors, spent the day in Wormwood Scrubs piloting the Fundamentals module with an enthusiastic group of inmates involved in the prison education program. Otesha received fantastic feedback from those who participated in the … Continue reading »
Roots of Success was recently selected, along with fellow Full Circle Fund grant partners One Economy and Niroga Institute, to have custom mobile apps developed during the upcoming AT&T Mobile App Hackathon for Social Good. The two-day Hackathon, happening later this month on October 26 & 27th, will give us an opportunity to present our challenges and ideas to a diverse and talented … Continue reading »
Join us for a free webinar on November 14, 2012 to learn more about an exciting new curriculum tool, specifically designed to inspire and prepare the next generation of social entrepreneurs in the green economy. Roots of Success for Social Entrepreneurs is an empowering environmental literacy and job readiness curriculum that prepares youth and adults … Continue reading »
Interested in how Roots of Success is being used in correctional settings to prepare inmates for opportunities in the green economy? Then you won’t want to miss Dr. Raquel Pinderhughes give a talk on Roots of Success on Wednesday, October 31, 2012 at the 2nd National Symposium on Sustainability in Corrections. Roots of Success is an empowering environmental literacy and job … Continue reading »
