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Maryland Should Follow D.C.’s Lead On Youth Rehabilitation
Despite the punitive correctional atmosphere of the 1990s and 2000s, Tyrone [Walker] earned his GED and enrolled in college with the help of a Pell Grant. Eventually, he tutored…
December 27, 2019
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Meet DC Inno’s 2019 50 On Fire Inno Blazer Winners
Georgetown Entrepreneurship’s rebranding has come on the back of one of its most successful years yet. It opened a new Venture Lab in WeWork Metropolitan Ave., doubled its…
November 22, 2019
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The Douglas Dynasty
Talib Shakir, Pivot Program fellow, appeared in an interview with Diane Sawyer in a series, The Douglas Dynasty, about Cameron Douglas and surviving.…
October 22, 2019
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DMV Spotlight On 9.8.2019 On The Georgetown Pivot Program
DMV Spotlight on 9.8.2019 is highlighting the Georgetown Pivot Program that allows formerly incarcerated DC residents to be chosen for a Georgetown fellowship to earn a non…
September 4, 2019
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From Prison To Work: Former Inmates Learn To Be Entrepreneurs At Georgetown University
"Business schools are about creating opportunity. There is a population in our community that is ready to contribute," said Pietra Rivoli, director of Pivot Program. "We support…
August 14, 2019
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When D.C. Residents Come Home From Prison — And Go To Georgetown
A variety of initiatives across the District seek to change that reality, including Georgetown’s Pivot program, a partnership with D.C.’s Department of Employment Services…
July 16, 2019
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The Business Schools Taking Teaching Into Prisons
He is a participant in Pivot, a program launched this year by the McDonough School of Business at Georgetown in Washington DC — part of a growing trend to train people who are…
May 23, 2019
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Pivot Program Creates Opportunities For Returning Citizens
The Pivot Program is a non-credit-bearing certificate in business and entrepreneurship which assists 20 D.C.-area residents who have been released from prison in the past two…
April 26, 2019
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Breaking the Cycle
Georgetown University launched a program to transform the lives of a highly select group of District of Columbia residents released from the city’s correctional facilities…
April 1, 2019
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Georgetown’s new program prepares returning citizens to be entrepreneurs. K-12 schools should follow GU’s lead.
GU’s Pivot Program is designed to offer a group of up to 20 “highly select” D.C. residents considered to hold leadership potential and who, presumably, possess the internal…
December 12, 2018