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Global advertising agency Ogilvy launched an apprenticeship scheme in 2016 that aims to celebrate and champion diversity, and provide more employment routes into the creative industries.
Open to all, regardless of background or qualifications, The Pipe is a two-year programme based in Ogilvy’s London headquarters. Apprentices who are taken on – known internally as Pipers – gain experience in a range of specialities, including advertising and customer engagement, design, social, PR and behaviour change. They work on client briefs while also studying towards a level 3 qualification, which is equivalent to two A-Levels.
The scheme has seen Ogilvy welcome poets, skaters, sculptors, jewellery designers, shelf stackers, artists and DJs through its doors. Key to its message is appealing to those who think the creative industries are difficult to get into unless you know someone on the inside or have certain qualifications.
Eleanor Ho
Boston University Statehouse Program
BOSTON As temperatures fall and positive coronavirus cases rise, advocates are concerned about homelessness in Massachusetts, where shelters remain at a reduced capacity due to the pandemic, and many are anticipating having to turn people away as outside conditions worsen.
Estimates of the size of the Massachusetts homeless population hovers around the 18,000 mark, according to estimates from a 2019 report by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Though in previous years Boston has been able to accommodate almost its entire homeless population, organizations are struggling to allow guests to distance and still provide adequate shelter.
BOSTON – As temperatures fall and positive coronavirus cases rise, advocates are raising concerns about homelessness in Massachusetts, where shelters remain at a reduced capacity due to the pandemic, and many are anticipating having to turn people away as outside conditions worsen.
Estimates of the size of the Massachusetts homeless population hovers around the 18,000 mark, according to estimates from a 2019 report by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Though in previous years Boston has been able to accommodate almost its entire homeless population, organizations are struggling to allow guests to distance and still provide adequate shelter.
State officials speculated in a recent report that homeless shelters around the state are short a few hundred beds, according to Massachusetts Housing and Shelter Alliance President Joe Finn, leaving many communities scrambling to find space to spare.
Shelters lack space for homeless as winter arrives
Tents set up by homeless under the bridge on the bike path in Northampton. GAZETTE FILE PHOTO/CAROL LOLLIS
Published: 12/27/2020 11:08:47 PM
BOSTON – As temperatures fall and positive coronavirus cases rise, advocates are raising concerns about homelessness in Massachusetts, where shelters remain at a reduced capacity due to the pandemic, and many are anticipating having to turn people away as outside conditions worsen.
Estimates of the size of the state’s homeless population hovers around the 18,000 mark, according to estimates from a 2019 report by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Though in previous years Boston has been able to accommodate almost its entire homeless population, organizations are struggling to allow guests to distance and still provide adequate shelter.
GOING TO THE SOURCE: Crown Heights Tenant Union and other NYC housing organizations members march on December 11 from the Brooklyn Housing Court to the law offices of Balsamo, Rosenblatt & Hall, a law firm that specializes in evicting tenants.Photo: Sue Brisk.
Tenant organizers in Massachusetts, New York, Texas, Missouri, Illinois & California speak out.
The United States could see a Hurricane Katrina of evictions next month, as the federal Center for Disease Control’s limited moratorium on evictions and two programs expanding unemployment benefits are scheduled to expire by Dec. 31.
In late September, the National Council of State Housing Agencies projected that by January 2021, up to 8.4 million renter households containing more than 20 million people could have eviction cases filed against them. It estimated that would include more than 1 million people in California, 860,000 in Tex-as, and 730,000 in New York.