New England Center for Arts and Technology

Last Fall, I visited and toured Edwins restaurant in Cleveland, not only because of its great French bistro fare, but also because of its innovative program to train formerly incarcerated individuals with food industry skills as well as life skills. Turns out there’s similar emerging in Boston, at the New England Center for Arts and Technology. Today I made a donation to that organization, which targets chronically underemployed individuals.

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