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Job Opportunities

2007 Grants

Microenterprise Technical Assistance

ACCION USA	$35,000
To help ACCION USA applicants improve their credit scores and financial knowledge, thus increasing the number of microentrepreneurs who achieve long-term business success and stability.

Women's Rural Entrepreneurial Network	$50,000
To expand business training and technical assistance for microentrepreneurs in northern New Hampshire.

Workforce Development Capacity Building

New York City Employment and Training Coalition	$35,000
To train 200 member organizations in advocacy skills.

The Workforce Alliance	$55,000
To strengthen coalitions in Connecticut, Rhode Island, and Vermont with technical assistance and capacity building grants.

Workforce Development Innovations / Enhancements

Binding Together, Inc.	$50,000
To help graduates of Binding Together's print technology training program advance in their careers.

Common Good Ventures	$45,000
To increase the number of foster care youth who are working or in school, with programs that could be applied to other at-risk youth in Maine.

Community Economic Development Assistance Corporation	$40,000
To provide training and professional development opportunities for direct service staff at community-based nonprofit and public agencies in the education, employment, and training sectors.

East Harlem Employment Service (Strive Central)	$45,000
To offer environmental remediation technology training to 60 low-income New York City residents and place them in sustainable-wage jobs.

Fedcap Rehabilitation Services	$40,000
To assist underserved youth in gaining life and job skills to attain long-term living wage careers.

International Rescue Committee	$50,000
To broaden employment options and increase earning potential for dozens of refugees.

MY TURN, Inc.	$50,000
To work with Rhode Island job training, employment placement and social service providers to enable young people in Pawtucket and other Rhode Island cities to enter marine trades.

New Hampshire Community Loan Fund	$40,000
To build a quality workforce for home care by creating jobs that retain experienced and skilled staff and by understanding what homebound elderly value in direct care workers.

Operation ABLE of Greater Boston	$40,000
To assist unemployed professionals at mid-life in developing the necessary skills and job search strategies to find satisfying work.

Pioneer Valley Rebuilders CDC	$40,000
To provide employment services and skills training to community residents with a history of incarceration; and to place those residents in building trades work as a way to prevent recidivism.

ReCycle North	$50,000
To develop new services for the community while creating a social enterprise for sustaining the youth training program.

Safe Space NYC	$40,000
To provide a comprehensive career development program that will address youth unemployment.

STRIVE Boston Employment Service	$55,000
To place ex-offender training graduates, both from the Roxbury program and the Suffolk House of Corrections, in jobs; and to perfect the training and job placement service for ex-offenders so that it becomes a national model.

Vermont Works for Women	$50,000
To develop and market technical assistance services to public and nonprofit agencies interested in Step Up to Law Enforcement and modular home construction by incarcerated women.

Volunteers of America Northern New England	$50,000
To provide women with trade skills so that when they are released from prison they can earn a livable wage; and to build affordable homes for low-income families.

YMCA of Greater Boston	$40,000
To successfully prepare Boston Training, Inc. students for careers in medical administration.

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