NORRISTOWN >> When OIC of America Inc. was founded more than 50 years ago, the Philadelphia-based nonprofit network of employment and training programs was geared to helping the disadvantaged find ...

NORRISTOWN – From forklift operator to nurse’s aide, Montgomery County OIC students are finding their career paths with the sort of intensive affordable training that might not otherwise have been ...

One year after launching weekly digital literacy trainings, poverty-empowerment nonprofit LIFT-Philadelphia, partnered with economic development group Philadelphia OIC and Comcast, says it has brought ...

With its $18 million in federal funding set to dry up next summer, the city’s Freedom Rings Partnership/KEYSPOT initiative, a broad public-private partnership aimed at closing the digital divide, is ...

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) --OIC Philadelphia is partnering with a local utility company to launch a green jobs training program. There's also new proposed legislation designed to support the effort. The $100 ...

West Chester >> In a collaborative act made possible by the several partnering agencies, Chester County OIC has purchased the former Coatesville Area Senior Center. Investment in the building purchase ...

A group of young men who have shifted from job to job have decided to get serious about learning a trade, and they’re getting a lesson in the importance of investing in their community along the way.

Kristina Graves developed her passion for computers when she was a kid, and took apart her own computer after it crashed. Now 25, Graves is learning how computers are put together. She is enrolled in ...

Anthony Peterson got into the “helping people business” early when he participated in the Boys and Girls Club in Tacoma, where he grew up. “I became a product of the Boys and Girls Club, which is a ...

YAKIMA, Wash. - The Opportunities and Industrialization Center of Yakima has received $1.1 million from the federal government to continue its YouthBuild program for academic and occupational skill ...