Maryland State Leaders Praise Featherstone Foundation's Multilingual Workforce Initiative
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Thursday, March 7, 2019
BALTIMORE, March 7, 2019 /PRNewswire/ --The award-winning William & Lanaea C. Featherstone Foundation celebrated the graduates of its innovative workforce program, Reaching New Heights.
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- BALTIMORE, March 7, 2019 /PRNewswire/ --The award-winning William & Lanaea C. Featherstone Foundation celebrated the graduates of its innovative workforce program, Reaching New Heights.
- The initiative has been an economic engine that has provided underemployed and unemployed multicultural trainees with professional careers, stronger household incomes and financial stability.
- "We serve as anincubatorof bilingual talent andpipeline for employers to tap qualified candidates from diverse backgrounds," said Lanaea C. Featherstone , CEO, Featherstone Foundation and member of the OSI-Baltimore Community Fellows' Network.
- Maryland's Deputy Secretary of State Luis E. Borunda , the first Hispanic to serve in that role, provided remarks on behalf of the Governor.