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Jan 3, 2006
"The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty." --Winston Churchill
Year Up
As a Big Brother volunteer while working on Wall Street, Gerald Chertavian, 39, "saw that urban young adults, who are wonderfully talented, supersmart and capable, didn't have a path into the mainstream." For his business school essay, he wrote about starting a school that would fix that. In 1999 Gerald turned that essay into a reality with Year Up, a school that provides 18-24 adult from disadvantaged backgrounds real job skills for working in a corporate environment for livable wages.
BE THE CHANGE
Provide an opportunity for someone to excel.
