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• How Fast Forward and IT Certifications Got an IT Career Back on Track

  by Janet Pinkerton on Thursday, March 29, 2012

  Tags: creating futures , cisco , CompTIA A+ , t2tc , educational foundation , Advancing Women in IT , womenIT , Tech Workforce , CITF , fast forward , Training , AWIT , CompTIA Network+

  In early 2010, Melanie Moody had IT skills, having worked in the field for decades, but her skills were outdated because she had left her last IT job in 2005 due to health reasons. Fast Forward, a community technology center in Columbia, S.C., helped Moody earn CompTIA A+ and Network+ certifications to resume her ... Read More

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• Nimble and Smart: Meet Fast Forward, a Survivor among Non-Profit Training Centers

  by Eric Larson on Tuesday, May 24, 2011

  Tags: certification , Member Connections , educational foundation , IT Workforce , Member News , Tech Workforce , fast forward , Training

  After being kicked out of his apartment last summer, Tim Burford’s bout with homelessness lasted over 120 miles, a journey in the August heat from Beaufort, S.C., to the Veterans Administration Hospital in Columbia. Hitchhiking when he could but walking over half the way, he spent several nights sleeping in ditches and under overpasses.
  
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