{"id":28753,"date":"2023-01-24T11:37:40","date_gmt":"2023-01-24T16:37:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/company\/stories\/fostering-connection-and-career-success-bloomberg-and-the-city-tutors\/"},"modified":"2024-04-12T11:10:29","modified_gmt":"2024-04-12T15:10:29","slug":"fostering-connection-and-career-success-bloomberg-and-the-city-tutors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/company\/stories\/fostering-connection-and-career-success-bloomberg-and-the-city-tutors\/","title":{"rendered":"Fostering connection and career success: Bloomberg and the City Tutors"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Mentoring provides relationships and opportunities to help young people navigate their career paths and build the skills and networks they need to succeed.\u00a0 Bloomberg invests in young leaders providing free training and internship opportunities through our growing network of education and mentoring nonprofit organizations focused on personal development, financial education, and preparing college and career success.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Mentoring through our Best of Bloomberg<\/a> volunteer program gives Bloomberg employees the opportunity to engage and work with young people and adults through long-term and short-term programs, sharing their career experiences and skills, particularly in the areas that Bloomberg knows best including finance, technology, data, and journalism.\u00a0 One of our partnerships making a difference is mentoring with the City Tutors in New York. <\/span><\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The City Tutors is a volunteer tutoring and mentoring nonprofit that provides access to professional mentorships for college students in communities that have historically been underserved across New York City. <\/span>We announced our partnership in January 2022<\/span><\/a>, and since then, 215 Bloomberg employees have served as mentors to 404 college students within the City University of New York (CUNY) system.\u00a0 We spoke to <\/span>Garri Rivkin, Founder and Executive Director of The City Tutors, and <\/span>Thomas Rowlands-Rees, BloombergNEF Manager for North America Research, whose team helped mentor CUNY students interested in careers in climate and energy.<\/span><\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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(L) <\/span><\/i>Thomas Rowlands-Rees<\/i><\/b>, BloombergNEF Manager for North America Research and (R) <\/span><\/i>Garri Rivkin<\/i><\/b>, Founder and Executive Director of The City Tutors<\/span><\/i><\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Tell us about City Tutors.<\/b><\/p>\n

Garri: <\/b>The City Tutors is a CUNY-incubated startup non-profit. We\u2019re building the first free, on-demand NYC-wide learning and career center that empowers first-generation immigrants and\u00a0 historically low-resourced communities to pursue their academic and professional development goals at a time and pace that works for them. In addition to serving 1,000 mentees through our self-paced mentorship program, this past year we ran 27 mentorship events, connecting over 1,200 CUNY students and alums with Fortune 500 companies, specialized firms, non-profits, and government institutions. Our mentees had a chance to learn from and network with industry insiders from finance, technology, healthcare, pharma, life science, sustainability, engineering, social work, and the legal sectors. Bloomberg mentors supported nearly 20% of all mentees served!<\/span><\/p>\n

Describe your experience getting involved with City Tutors.<\/b><\/p>\n

Thomas:<\/b> I really appreciate working with City Tutors. I think a lot of us like the idea of helping people and opening doors, but we don’t know where to direct that energy. City Tutors solves that problem by matching us up with people who have asked for our mentorship. I’ve been involved for about a year, and I’ve had\u00a0 five mentees during that time. A highlight for me is getting to meet so many different young people, all with different ambitions and career goals. Finding the right job is more like a marathon than a sprint and I hope that my mentoring has given my mentees something that helps them last the distance in their respective races, rather than something that instantly boosts them to the finish line.<\/span><\/p>\n

Can you share some highlights of the work you’re focusing on as part of City Tutors?<\/b><\/p>\n

Garri:<\/b> We grew quite a bit in 2022 and, to scale our tutoring services across NYC, we built our own web platform, The City Hub. It allows students to be matched with tutors within hours. It also provides an opportunity for our program partners to track their student’s progress in real-time, pick up volunteer opportunities and flexibly set volunteer hours, and for us to see the complex patterns of tutoring use across NYC to better respond to the needs of the diverse learners we support. In 2023, we will migrate our mentorship program onto the web platform, creating a more frictionless experience for our Bloomberg mentors and for the learners who work with them. Another exciting highlight is that award-winning actor and comedian Kevin “Dotcom” Brown (30 Rock TV Show) joined our team as program success manager, helping us deepen our connection with the learners we serve, and allowing us to facilitate more dynamic tutoring and mentoring events across the city. He just wrapped up filming the first season of our \u201cTutors, Mentors, and The City\u201d podcast, which he is hosting. The first episodes were released in early 2023 and it includes an episode featuring Thomas!\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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