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You can't give until you have.
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One can fall into the soft bigotry of low expectations.
Gerald Chertavian / Entrepreneur
Expectations
Fall
Lows
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One can fall into the 'soft bigotry of low expectations.'
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Fall
Low Expectations
Low
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The ABCs are attitude, behavior and communication skills.
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Attitude
Communication
Skills
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The ABC's are attitude, behavior and communication skills.
Gerald Chertavian / Entrepreneur
Attitude
Communication
Behavior
Communication Skills
Skills
Abc
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I was taught very early on how you treat people is actually what matters.
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People
Taught
What Matters
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The best thing we can do for a young person is to expect a great deal from them.
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Best Things
Deals
Young
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Businesses are no longer receiving the cost savings from outsourcing that they once did.
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Cost
Outsourcing
Receiving
Saving
Savings
Businesses
Longer
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At Year Up, we have helped thousands of students rise from poverty into a professional career in a single year.
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Poverty
Professional Career
Rise
Thousands
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Years ago, as I was beginning my professional career on Wall Street, I volunteered as a Big Brother in New York City.
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New York
Brother
New York City
Professional Career
Wall
Years
City Street New
Big Brother
Volunteered
Wall Street
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Many training programs and often schools focus on just a skill or a kind of work competency. That's only half the equation.
Gerald Chertavian / Entrepreneur
Equation
Programs
Schools
Skill
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As we say at Year Up all the time, investing in our young people is not just a matter of economic justice. It's good business sense.
Gerald Chertavian / Entrepreneur
Business Sense
Economic Justice
Investing
Time Good Business
Time Business Good
Young People
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The Opportunity Divide doesn't just keep our students disconnected from the mainstream economy; it prevents our businesses from growing.
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Disconnected
Mainstream
Businesses
Divide
Prevents
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When it comes to expanding opportunity, businesses and young adults are not the sources of the problem - they are a substantial part of the solution.
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Expanding
Businesses
Solution
Substantial
Young Adults
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You can learn what you want to learn through hard work. And a good employer will teach you what you want to learn as long as you show the right attitude and behaviors.
Gerald Chertavian / Entrepreneur
Attitude
Hard Work
Teach
Work Good Hard Work
Behaviors
Attitude Work Good
Employer
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The best thing we can do is prepare people to lead in a much more diverse environment and see that as one of our national assets and one of the things that makes America strong.
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Assets
Diverse
Best People See
Best People America
Prepare
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Year Up for me is a year in which the young adults that we serve have an opportunity to move up in their lives and gain the access and opportunity they need to realize their potential.
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Opportunity
Access
Moving
Years
Gain
Young Adults
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College today is an expensive option without a lot of economies of scale, right, when you go and live at a college. So you have a system that's increasing its cost base by probably five percent a year.
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College
Cost
Expensive
Years
Scale
Base
Option
Increasing
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When we think about the workplace, people think about hard skills being dominant, but they're not. The employer realizes knowledge will shift quickly, and there's a half-life to knowledge in this world.
Gerald Chertavian / Entrepreneur
Dominant
Half Life
Skills
Workplace
Knowledge World People
Employer
Quickly
Shift
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At Year Up, our students - low income 18-24 year olds - come to us having already faced substantial obstacles in life. They are not in search of a handout; what they want most of all is the ability to take ownership of their own futures.
Gerald Chertavian / Entrepreneur
Ability
Income
Obstacles
Ownership
Futures
Handout
Low
Search
Substantial
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Many of our students say, 'We wish we had a mentor in high school. We wish we had someone we could spend more time with, who paid more attention to us, who I could sit down with and talk to when I had a problem.' So relationships are critical.
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Our young immigrants have a lot to offer. They are motivated and hard-working, and in many cases have already contributed significantly to our society - by excelling in school, by volunteering in their communities, or by serving in the military.
Gerald Chertavian / Entrepreneur
Cases
Immigrants
Motivated
Serving
Communities
Hard-Working
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The millennial generation and a growing number of employees are looking for more than just a paycheck. If a nonprofit could make that easy for me, they are doing me a favor. It's not just a one-way value exchange; it is an internal morale building opportunity.
Gerald Chertavian / Entrepreneur
Morale
One Way
Exchange
Employees
Favor
Internal
Nonprofit
Paycheck
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You have, unfortunately, a K-12 educational system where the requirements to graduate are not the requirements to be college and career-ready. So if you want young adults who are college and career-ready, our K-12 system right now does not have that as its standard.
Gerald Chertavian / Entrepreneur
College
Educational
Requirements
Adult
Unfortunately
Graduate
Standard
System
Young Adults
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Mentors provide professional networks, outlets for frustration, college and career counseling, general life advice, and most importantly, an extra voice telling a student they are smart enough and capable enough to cross the stage at graduation and land their first paycheck from a career pathway job.
Gerald Chertavian / Entrepreneur
Graduation
Advice
Capable
Counseling
Frustration
Outlets
Life Enough Smart
Networks
Cross
Extra
Importantly
Mentors
Pathway
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The saying in business is that, 'You hire for skills and you fire for behavior.' And one would argue that in order to move up in career, to be promoted, to take on additional responsibility, in many ways that's linked more to the attitudes and behaviors that you carry rather than what you know technically about a given subject.
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Business
Behavior
Fire
Given
Linked
Order
Responsibility
Skills
Additional
Argue
Attitudes
Career
Carry
Take
Technically
Hire
Would
Move
Promoted
Rather
Saying
Subject
Ways
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