Listen
Understand real needs, goals, barriers, and local context before proposing solutions.
Learning · Access · Community Development
Building Pathways to Opportunity Through Learning, Access, and Community Development
I build practical access systems that help people understand, prepare for, and act on learning, career, English, digital skills, and community development opportunities.
Currently based in Mindelo, Cabo Verde, I’m developing a pilot approach that connects students, young adults, local organizations, and opportunity resources through practical engagement, resource navigation, digital readiness, and community-centered problem solving.
Mindelo, Cabo Verde
Field-based opportunity-building
U.S. Navy Veteran
Community Development Strategist
Resource Connector
Program Designer
Mindelo, Cabo Verde
International Experience
Who I Am
Service-minded, field-based, and focused on practical next steps.
I’m Jason L. Jones — a U.S. Navy veteran, community development strategist, educator, and resource connector currently based in Mindelo, Cabo Verde.
My work brings together service, education, communication, outreach, and practical problem-solving to help people and communities identify what they need, discover what already exists, and build practical pathways toward opportunity access.
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Vision
How I Build Opportunity
My work follows a practical opportunity access model. The goal is not only to inspire people, but to help them discover useful resources, build confidence, access tools, and take realistic next steps.
Map
Identify existing resources, organizations, relationships, gaps, and opportunities.
Expose
Make useful opportunities visible through resource pages, workshops, conversations, and guided introductions.
Cultivate
Encourage confidence, consistency, motivation, and follow-through through mentoring and repeated engagement.
Equip
Connect people to tools, training, digital skills, templates, spaces, and support systems.
Guide
Help people choose practical next steps and move from awareness into action.
Adapt
Use feedback, evidence, and lived experience to improve the next cycle.
Current Field Context
Testing practical ways to connect people with opportunity.
My current work in Mindelo focuses on resource access, youth engagement, English learning, digital skills, career readiness, AI literacy, and community mapping.
As Cabo Verde invests in digital transformation and new skills pathways, this work focuses on helping people understand what exists, prepare practically, and identify their next step.
Through volunteer support, local conversations, and independent resource building, I am testing practical ways to help students, young adults, and community members discover opportunities and take useful next steps.
Boundary note: Some work connects to American Spaces-related volunteer support where appropriate.
My independent website and Learning & Career Resource Hub are separate from official American Spaces, U.S. Embassy, University of Cape Verde (UniCV), Government of Cabo Verde, TechPark CV, Skodji Digital, or listed-provider platforms unless clearly stated and approved.
My independent website and Learning & Career Resource Hub are separate from official American Spaces, U.S. Embassy, University of Cape Verde (UniCV), Government of Cabo Verde, TechPark CV, Skodji Digital, or listed-provider platforms unless clearly stated and approved.
Public Resource Tool
Learning & Career Resource Hub
A growing public-access tool for learning, career, English, digital skills, study, and community resources.
The Learning & Career Resource Hub is designed to help students, workers, teachers, job seekers, and community members find practical opportunities without getting lost in scattered links, temporary announcements, or hard-to-follow information.
The first version focuses on Cabo Verde and universal online resources, with room to expand carefully by country, topic, and community need over time.
- Current and upcoming learning opportunities
- English, career, digital skills, and study resources
- Saved-resource list for users
- Multilingual search support and Google Translate workflow
- Suggest/report resource options
Beta Learning & Career Resource Hub
Free Learning & Career Resources
Search by category, language, level, location, and opportunity type.
Search resources…
English LearningUniversal · Free · Beginner-friendly
Digital SkillsCabo Verde + online · Free courses
Career ReadinessTools, templates, and next steps
Initiatives
Featured Initiatives
These initiatives are connected by one purpose: helping people move from awareness to action through practical resources, local engagement, digital readiness, and opportunity access systems.
Mindelo Opportunity Pathway
A developing pathway focused on English practice, resource navigation, digital skills, and practical career-development support for students and young adults in Mindelo.
American Spaces Volunteer Support
American Spaces-related volunteer support for approved or potential programming connected to student engagement, English and cultural learning, workshops, and resource access.
Local Resource Mapping
A careful effort to identify useful local organizations, programs, and support systems without duplicating or claiming ownership of existing work.
Diaspora & Partner Engagement
Exploring ways to connect local needs with mentors, professionals, businesses, and supporters who want to contribute meaningfully.
Proof of Work
Experience that informs the platform.
My work has developed across veteran support, education, media, communication, outreach, and international community engagement. These experiences now inform the systems I’m building in Cabo Verde and beyond.
Veteran Outreach & Career Transition
Supported military-connected students and veterans through career guidance, outreach, benefits navigation, and transition support.
APU Veteran Resource Fair
Helped organize a veteran-focused resource fair connecting students and community members to services, organizations, and support networks.
Heroes in the ShadowsStand Down
Supported outreach efforts focused on connecting veterans and vulnerable community members to practical resources and support.
UA|TV English Broadcast Work
Contributed to international English language media and communication work in Ukraine, strengthening public communication across cultural contexts.
American Spaces /Mindelo Work in Progress
Supporting student engagement, resource navigation, English-learning activities, and opportunity access programming concepts in Mindelo while preserving official/independent boundaries.
Field Notes
Ideas Worth Exploring
I study models from different communities and countries — digital learning hubs, makerspaces, public libraries, youth-development systems, diaspora mentorship, and workforce pathways — to consider what could be adapted responsibly with local leadership and context.
Explore the VisionStudying what could translate.
Not copying models blindly. Looking for principles, patterns, and practical ideas that could be discussed, adapted, or locally led.
Collaborate
Let’s build practical pathways.
I’m open to thoughtful collaboration related to education, youth engagement, workforce readiness, resource access, digital skills, English learning, diaspora connection, and community-based opportunity access.