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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 in…

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

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Georgetown Program Gives Former Prisoners ‘2nd Chance’

The directors of a new program at Georgetown University want to change that, using education as their tool. The Pivot Program, launched in mid-November, is a collaboration…

November 28, 2018