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 ...

One of the region’s oldest and largest training groups, Opportunities Industrialization Center, Inc. (OIC) of America in Philadelphia, is expanding its national efforts to bridge the labor gap and ...

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 ...

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 ...

Founded 60 years ago by the late Rev. Leon Sullivan, leader of North Philadelphia’s Zion Baptist Church, the Opportunities Industrialization Center, commonly known as OIC, has been an advocate for ...

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 ...

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.

Kyla Sharp is employed as an Advance Panel Builder I at Design Ready Controls in Brooklyn Park, Minnesota. (Photo by Nagashia Jackson for Steed Media) Summit Academy OIC of Minneapolis continues to ...

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 ...