Chertavian '87 Non-Profit Receives $4.5 Million Grant

Story posted November 20, 2009

Year Up, a national non-profit organization founded by Gerald Chertavian '87, is receiving a $4.5 million grant for its Washington, D.C., chapter from Venture Philanthropy Partners.

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Gerald Chertavian '87

Year Up is a national one-year training program that prepares young urban adults for life and work in the technology-driven society of the 21st century.

Read the Washington Post article.

Chertavian, of Cambridge, Mass., a member of the Bowdoin College Board of Trustees, graduated Phi Beta Kappa and summa cum laude with a degree in economics, and earned his MBA at Harvard Business School in 1992.

Chertavian became head of marketing at Transnational Financial Services in London, and went on to co-found Conduit Communications, which sold to I-Cube in 1999, the year he founded Year Up.

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