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Mamadou Ndiaye
Wednesday November 7, 2012
One Unemployment Rate Does Not Fit All
by Mamadou NdiayeA newly released FSG publication, Collective Impact for Opportunity Youth proposes how communities across the country can improve the life trajectories of the nearly 20 percent of our 16- to 24-year-olds, who are not connected to either education or the workforce.
The White House Council on Community Solutions dubs this group of 6.7 million young...
Wednesday May 2, 2012
The Great Letdown
by Mamadou NdiayeEducation is hailed as the greatest equalizer in American society. The fact is for entire generations of Americans, access to good and meaningful educational opportunities has historically been a ticket to well-paying jobs, greater participation in civic life, strong families and communities, and for all of us a stronger and more prosperous United...
Wednesday April 4, 2012
Thinking Outside the School Building
by Mamadou NdiayeIn a March 2010 article in the Harvard Business Review, Rosabeth Moss Kanter, a professor at the Harvard Business School, writes:
Progress requires institutional change to reinvent not just products and services, not just organizations and industries, but entire interconnected systems.
As an example of one of those interconnected systems, she...
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