Grant Program Job Opportunities

To support creation of a model Career Ladders Program for entry-level employees of four major Boston Hospitals.

To help young parents gain the hard and soft skills necessary to gain living wage employment.

To provide a job readiness and placement program for out-of-school youth and young adults.

To support the job training and placement program serving those convicted of misdemeanors and others who have had contact with the criminal justice system.

To provide a four-week job readiness and office skills training program that helps prepare low-income women for full-time employment.

To train and either place or create jobs for 30 low-income individuals in deconstruction ventures in several Northeast communities. Deconstruction is an environmentally responsible approach to taking down buildings in which building materials are salvaged and sold for reuse.

In collaboration with CitySkills, to complete the design, development and launch of a community-based training program that prepares low-income adults for Internet careers.

To provide training in the skilled trades to incarcerated women, followed by on-the-job training after release; to expand the core training program Step Up; and to support WOMENBUILD, an on-the-job training program intended to follow up the core training.

To support the development of FirstSource Staffing in Brooklyn, which assists people transitioning from welfare into permanent full-time jobs; and to develop a fourth, similar company in Newark, New Jersey.

To meet the private transportation needs of low-income individuals so that they can find employment, maintain their current employment, or access job training.