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Category Archives: Job Training Nonprofits

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Brooklyn-based Refoundry trains ex-offenders to create home furnishings out of discarded materials

Posted on March 24, 2017August 5, 2020 by Jails to Jobs

Although there are other programs that teach formerly incarcerated individuals entrepreneurial skills, Refoundry takes a slightly different approach. This Brooklyn-based not-for-profit has trained its pilot project participants to create home furnishings out of discarded materials and learn how to sell […]

Together We Bake cooks up recipe for reentry success

Posted on August 11, 2016May 7, 2021 by Jails to Jobs

Alexandria, Va., nonprofit Together We Bake takes women who need a second chance and turns them into job ready candidates. Its recipe: combine lessons in making chocolate chip cookies, granola and other goodies with experience doing inventory and making deliveries. […]

Drive Change food truck biz trains formerly incarcerated youth

Posted on November 24, 2015April 7, 2021 by Jails to Jobs

While the food business often serves up employment opportunities for those in reentry, Drive Change takes the idea one step further. The New York City nonprofit’s Snow Day food truck sells an interesting menu of maple syrup-themed cuisine with a […]

Texas nonprofit hires ex-offenders to build houses for veterans

Posted on December 12, 2014January 11, 2022 by Jails to Jobs

Maria Schneider is out to change the construction industry in Dallas, Texas, one ex-offender at time. Her way to do this: By building a nonprofit that sells rehabbed homes to veterans at below market rate prices and hires employees who […]

San Francisco Bay Area group delivers doula training program

Posted on July 11, 2014August 29, 2019 by Jails to Jobs

In a unique program that may be the only one of its type in the nation, The East Bay Community Birth Support Project is training formerly incarcerated women and women of color to become doulas. For the uninitiated, a doula […]

Wisconsin prison timebank creates safety net, opportunities

Posted on October 15, 2013August 29, 2019 by Jails to Jobs

Timebanking, an alternative economy in which people exchange services instead of cash, is a way to build community and redefine the value of work. And in the case of the Dane County Timebank in Madison, Wisconsin, it’s a way to […]

L.A. Kitchen cooks up program for training older ex-offenders

Posted on August 23, 2013December 29, 2021 by Jails to Jobs

L.A. Kitchen, a startup nonprofit expected to launch early next year, will train older ex-offenders – those at least 60 years old – for food service jobs. It will also tackle the problem of hunger among the elderly and work […]

NEW finds success in placing women in trade union jobs

Posted on May 27, 2013August 5, 2020 by Jails to Jobs

Those beginning the reentry process and starting to look for a job should seriously consider the trades – a type of employment that tends to be ex-offender friendly, can provide steady work and pays well with great benefits. And Nontraditional […]

Building boats helps youth offenders build confidence and job skills

Posted on December 6, 2012May 7, 2019 by Jails to Jobs

An innovative wooden boatbuilding program in Alexandria, Va. helps young people, many of whom have been incarcerated, gain the skills, confidence and knowledge needed to prepare them for employment. Operated by the Alexandria Seaport Foundation, the program offers paid apprenticeships […]

The Bread Project rises to offer new opportunities to ex-offenders

Posted on October 2, 2012August 29, 2019 by Jails to Jobs

As one of a growing number of social ventures employing ex-offenders springing up around the nation, the Emeryville, Calif.-based The Bread Project has created a unique program to train low-income people in culinary arts. And the organization recently hired Dale […]

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