2024
WWLTV: NOLA Students earn school credit - and a paycheck - building affordable homes
State Policy Network: Announcing the Winners of State Policy Network’s Pathways Prize
Gambit Weekly: uCCNOLA Program Director Named 40 Under 40!
BizNewOrleans: unCommon Construction Begins Renovation of New Headquarters
NBC News: Stay Tuned: This construction nonprofit helps students build their career
WorkingNation: Overheard: SXSW EDU 2024: Paid apprenticeships for high schoolers
SXSW EDU 2024: Making Afterschool Learning Count (audio)
2023
Constructor Magazine: Associated General Contractors (AGC) National Magazine Cover Story
Brick By Brick Podcast: Building a better future - Empowering Youth in Construction
K-12 Dive: 4 Ways Schools are Approaching Nontraditional Postsecondary Pathways
JFF Horizons 2023: New Models blend High School, Higher Ed, and Workforce Development (panel)
Real Clear Education: The Art of Education Transformation
ASU+GSV Summit 2023: Workforce Readiness in Middle and High School Kids (panel)
NCCER’s The Builder’s Table Podcast: Episode 27: Aaron Frumin
WGNO: 17-Year-Old NOLA Student Builds Her Own House
Real Clear Education: Why Some Education Innovators Are Going Back To The Future
WWL: unCommon Construction Teaching Students Life Skills (audio)
Cato Institute: Friday Feature - unCommon Construction
2022
Forbes: Microschools, Apprenticeships and Edtech Companies Vie for $1 Million Yass Prize
Biz New Orleans: Palmisano Foundation Makes $750k “Commitment to NOLA Youth”
Business Forward Podcast: Career Pathways and the Catalyze Challenge
The 74: Meet the winners of the Catalyze Challenge, reimagining what education can be
Forbes: 25 organizations win career-connected learning awards
United Way SELA: $500,000 awarded to New Orleans summer youth programs
Biz New Orleans Magazine: Building Houses, Framing Character
Skill Stadium Podcast: Teaching and paying high school students to build a house
Mike Rowe: “People You Should Know” interview with Founding Apprentice Hunter & Director Aaron
Biz New Orleans: New Orleans Nonprofit Partners with Michigan-based Boot Company
Footwear News: Wolverine lets teenagers design its latest workboot
PR Newswire: Wolverine Inspires High School Students to Explore Opportunities in the Skilled Trades
2021
City Business: ALTA Good Deeds Foundation awards $6k grant to unCommon Construction
Mighty Buildings Podcast with Aaron Frumin
Dave Cooper Live: Using the BUILD process to EMPOWER youth
2020
Freethink: Turning a construction site into a classroom
Stand Together: Stand Together Foundation welcomes tenth cohort to Catalyst Program
ACTE: Impactful work-based learning in New Orleans
2019
Impact 100: unCommon Construction awarded $100,000
Afterschool Alliance: Putting afterschool to work: High-impact work-based learning in New Orleans
People Magazine: Construction Boss Gives Students Jobs for No Profit: ‘This Changed My Life’
Afterschool Alliance: This is Afterschool - Preparing young people for the jobs of tomorrow
The Lens: Who Will Build, Measure, and Maintain Our Future?
Builtcast: How unCommon Construction is providing opportunities through the trades
Building Forward: Showcasing What Construction Really Means
This Old House: Meet our Season 41 Apprentices
Preservation in Print: PRC Teams Up With unCommon Construction To Build Affordable House in Treme
Louisiana AGC: March 2019 Newsletter Member Spotlight (p. 23)
This Old House: Updates From The Young Tradespeople at unCommon Construction
2018
The Tulanian: Impression: Aaron Frumin
The Advocate: Developers Chosen to Build Affordable Single-Family Homes in Lower 9th Ward
This Old House: New Orleans High School Students Build Homes To Learn Skills for Work and Life
Wolverine: “Team Wolverine” to Champion America’s Skilled Trade Workers
Biz New Orleans Magazine: Building Homes and Futures
The Swarm Podcast by Cicada: unCommon Construction
WWNO: "Out To Lunch" - Crime and Education
WWLTV: A Day at the LOOP NOLA Ropes Course
Witry Collective - Community Connect
My New Orleans: It's New Orleans Podcast, featuring Executive Director Aaron Frumin
WHIV FM 102.3 Interview: Voluntold Ya! with Emily Leitzinger
Louisiana Weekly: State Embraces CTE as Path Forward for Job Creation
2017
Curbed NOLA: This adorable St. Roch home built by NOLA high school students asks 215K
Taylor Center Blog: Taylor Partner Aaron Frumin recognized in Gambit Weekly's "40 Under 40" list
Chronicle of Philanthropy: New Orleans Cooks Up Special Sauce That Boosts Middle-Class Giving
WHIV FM 102.3 Interview: NOLA Matters
Teach for All: Teach for America Announces Social Innovation Award Winners
Teach for America, One Day Magazine: $125,000 in Prizes Awarded to Education Social Innovators
2016
Data News Weekly: unCommon Construction and unCommon Goals: Building Homes with High School Students
Curbed NOLA: New Orleans high school students build 210-square-foot tiny home
WDSU (NBC): Making a Difference – Turning construction sites into classrooms for NOLA youth
The ToolMade Project: On-Site with unCommon Construction
WGNO (ABC): Apprenticeships offer high school students experience they can build on
Silicon Bayou News: unCommon Construction Receives $300,000 to Grow Nonprofit Startup
WDSU (NBC): unCommon Construction Builds Opportunity in the Upper 9th Ward
New Orleans City Business: Support Grows for Construction Apprentice Startup
Biz New Orleans: Chance Encounter off Bourbon Street Leads to $300k Donation for Local Nonprofit
2015
New Orleans Area Habitat for Humanity: unCommon Construction
Indiegogo: unCommon Construction: Jobs Through Apprenticeship