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With community and employer partners, Eleven Fifty is building a tech workforce pipeline at scale. Its graduates have filled more than 800 tech jobs since the start of the pandemic, earn average starting salaries of $54,000 and 97% of them remain in the Indiana tech ecosystem.
Eleven Fifty Academy is focused upon transforming lives of individuals and communities. We enable this through discovery of purpose, development of values, immersive job-ready skills development, and thoughtful community programs.
Eleven Fifty Academy will set up classrooms at Tabernacle Missionary Baptist Church in 2022.
Intelligent.com, a trusted resource for online learning, higher education planning, and career advice, has announced the Top 10 best cybersecurity bootcamps of 2021. Eleven Fifty Academy was named Best for Certifications.
The nonprofit Eleven Fifty Academy announces a milestone: the Academy has graduated its 1150th student from its immersive bootcamps since inception over seven years ago in the home of prolific inventor and entrepreneur, Scott Jones. These graduates now represent over $50 million of annual Hoosier income, with average incomes that far surpass state averages.
Innopower founder and CEO Emil Ekiyor said the conference is especially important this year because it will help teach leaders, such as educators, entrepreneurs and investors, how they can uplift the most vulnerable populations, which disproportionately suffered from issues such as finding jobs or keeping their businesses open during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The focus of this year’s InnoPower Minority Business Week is accelerating economic development and generating wealth in Indiana’s Black communities. The event will be held June 14th — 18th.
Eleven Fifty is the recipient of the Enhancing Opportunity in Indianapolis grant from Lilly Endowment. Through its initiative, Lilly Endowment is awarding 28 grants totaling $93.6 million to fund collaborative strategies and programs focused on helping Indianapolis residents living in or near poverty make progress toward achieving lasting economic self-sufficiency.
Eleven Fifty Academy announces next steps with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation’s Hiring Our Heroes, which is a series of webinars designed to educate veterans on how they may skill-up into high-demand technology careers.
Eleven Fifty Academy is transforming lives with the help of state and local organizations, as well as our federal government. In the midst of a pandemic, Eleven Fifty found opportunity. With Indiana’s unemployment rate of 6.2% hovering below the national average of 7.9%, the Career Services team at Eleven Fifty Academy is placing its graduates into sustainable careers in tech.