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Developing Talent in Young People Benjamin Bloom
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group

Exists to support and develop talent, innovation and enterprise to deliver social impact. By working with business, philanthropists, charities and Apps for Good is an open-source technology education movement run by not-for-profit organisation CDI Apps for Good, and focuses on developing the creative, business and technical skills of young people, particularly in low income and under-represented communities. Strickland is a community development leader and recipient of a MacArthur Foundation “genius” grant who believes disadvantaged young people can excel when they're exposed to meaningful arts education and facilities. Young people are worth investment. However, the abundant creativity and talents of Africa's young people could be harnessed to help turn the continent's socioeconomic fortunes around. 17-year-old entrepreneur Abdi Guleid from Acton, Ealing has launched youth-led media company 'White Star Alliance' in a bid to promote and develop the talent of young people in the borough of Ealing. And, compared to purely government-designed curricula taught exclusively in schools, learning in the workplace allows young people to develop “hard” skills on modern equipment and “soft” skills, such as teamwork, communication and negotiation, through real-world experience. "Young people [in Africa] find work, but not in places that pay good wages, develop skills or provide a measure of job security," reports the Brookings Institution, a Washington-based public policy organisation. Stephens said: “As the fifth largest employer in the country, Hospitality has a collective responsibility to invest time and resource in nurturing and developing talent – in particular young talent – and creating opportunities that will either generate employment or make people employment-ready. €�With good talent and technology, people will make this area their home. The British Hospitality Association (BHA) will announce that the UK's hospitality and tourism industries will create over 30,000 new job opportunities for young people by 2015. In Benjamin Blooms study "Developing Talent in Young People" one can read that the later top pianists were encouraged/pressured by their parents to practice every day, preferably at some fixed time. Africa's youth unemployment is becoming worrisome. FIFE Council's project aimed at developing young people's skills required for a career in renewable energy sector will be showcased as best practice at a prestigious national conference. As unlikely as it might sound to some, the memory of James Hunt has been something quite influential to me in developing the thinking behind the Foyer Federation's Open Talent approach to working with young people. Hands-on workplace Last but not least, if all of this is about more than getting young people temporarily off the street, we need to ensure that talent is used effectively. €�This invests in young people to make good things happen,” Nasr said.