{"id":187190,"date":"2026-03-02T20:02:24","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T20:02:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/187190\/"},"modified":"2026-03-02T20:02:24","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T20:02:24","slug":"bank-of-america-invests-1m-in-north-texas-job-skills-programs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/187190\/","title":{"rendered":"Bank of America invests $1M in North Texas job skills programs"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bank of America says it invested nearly $40 million last year in workforce development efforts nationwide, including about $1.05 million in North Texas<\/a> job skills programs that support workers seeking economic mobility<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Working with more than 100 universities and community colleges and over 600 nonprofit partners nationwide, the bank and its partners estimate last year\u2019s investments helped about 86,400 people connect to livable\u2011wage jobs<\/a> and provided roughly 265,000 individuals with access to training, education and career\u2011readiness programs designed to position them for long-term success.<\/p>\n

In North Texas, Bank of America said its 2025 workforce giving program supported 21 organizations, including Dallas\u2011based Caf\u00e9 Momentum<\/a> and Pathfinders. Caf\u00e9 Momentum runs a 12\u2011month paid internship program that combines restaurant work with wraparound services for justice\u2011involved youth, while Pathfinders focuses on single mothers, veterans, people leaving incarceration and low-income families working toward self\u2011sufficiency.<\/p>\n

Bank of America previously invested more than $1.3 million in programs supporting workforce development across North Texas between 2023 and 2024, said Jennifer Chandler, Bank of America Dallas president<\/a>, in a statement Monday.<\/p>\n

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Jennifer Chandler, president of Bank of America Dallas, speaks during the Dallas Regional Chamber\u2019s 2026 annual meeting at Music Hall at Fair Park, Wednesday, Feb. 4, 2026, in Dallas. <\/p>\n

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Chandler said those investments have helped veterans launch second careers as biomedical technicians through the Medisend College of Biomedical Engineering Technology. The bank\u2019s support has also backed the Texas Health Next Step program, which guides students toward health care roles, she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe true heartbeat of North Texas\u2019 success is the incredible talent of its people,\u201d Chandler said in a statement to The Dallas Morning News after Thursday\u2019s announcement.<\/p>\n

\u201cBy championing local workforce development, we are empowering the dreamers and doers of the Metroplex,\u201d she said. \u201cBy bridging the gap from classroom to career, we unlock a vibrant cycle of local prosperity that ripples through every neighborhood and helps ensure our regional economy will continue to flourish.\u201d<\/p>\n

The bank framed the investments as part of its broader effort to \u201cfuel economic mobility and strengthen communities,\u201d tying the announcement to February\u2019s Career and Technical Education Month<\/a>, which highlights efforts to prepare workers for jobs in fields such as health care, manufacturing and technology.<\/p>\n

This reporting is part of the Future of North Texas, a community-funded journalism initiative supported by the Commit Partnership, Communities Foundation of Texas, The Dallas Foundation, the Dallas Mavericks, the Dallas Regional Chamber, Deedie Rose, Lisa and Charles Siegel, the McCune-Losinger Family Fund, The Meadows Foundation, the Perot Foundation, the United Way of Metropolitan Dallas and the University of Texas at Dallas. The News retains full editorial control of this coverage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bank of America says it invested nearly $40 million last year in workforce development efforts nationwide, including about…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":187191,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[6880,102,324,104,103,918,163,411,286,289,2184,290],"class_list":["post-187190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-banking","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-fortworth","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-economy","tag-education","tag-future-of-north-texas","tag-future-of-north-texas-workforce","tag-higher-education","tag-jobs","tag-workforce"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187190\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}