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Skills for Rhode Island`s Future is a public-private partnership working to match businesses that have current, unmet hiring needs with qualified, unemployed or underemployed job seekers in the state of Rhode Island. Skills for Rhode Island’s Future will serve as a business intermediary dedicated to returning the unemployed and underemployed to work by focusing on the hiring needs of local employers. This unique demand-driven approach allows Skills for Rhode Island’s Future to serve both the business and job seeker communities creating economic opportunity and regional progress. Skills for Rhode Island’s Future is modeled after Skills for Chicagoland’s Future, a successful demand-driven intermediary based in Chicago. Skills for Chicagoland’s Future has placed over 2,700 job seekers back to work with more than 50 employer partners since its inception in 2012. Skills for Rhode Island’s Future is being launched with support from the Rhode Island Department of Labor and Training and in partnership with the Greater Providence Chamber of Commerce.
New America Foundation is one of the leading companies in Non-Profit industry. New America Foundation is based in Washington, DC. You can find more information on New America Foundation at www.newamerica.net
Goodwill Industries of Southeastern Wisconsin is the largest of more than 165 Goodwill organizations in the world and has been providing services since 1919. Some 6,100 Goodwill employees work in nearly 100 locations throughout our 23-county territory in southeastern Wisconsin and metropolitan Chicago. Our service territory consists of thirteen full or partial counties in southeastern Wisconsin, and ten full or partial counties in northeastern Illinois. Goodwill’s territory covers more than 12,000 square miles of land area, ranging from Green Lake, Fond du Lac, and Sheboygan counties on the north, to Danville, Illinois, on the south, and west to Janesville, Wisconsin. This territory encompasses some of the most populated areas of both states, including Cook, Du Page, Will and Lake counties in Illinois, and Milwaukee County in Wisconsin. Our mission is to provide training, employment and supportive services for people with disabilities or disadvantages who seek greater independence. Employment and training are Goodwill’s primary focus, assisting men and women to develop their job skills and secure work opportunities that fulfill their personal and professional goals. As the economy struggles, the need for our services continues to grow. Last year, Goodwill provided services to more than 72,000 men and women with disabilities and disadvantages. We employ more people with disabilities (25% of their workforce) than any private-sector business in the area.
WiNGS mission is to empower women, fight poverty and impact generations. We serve women in crisis or at critical life crossroads delivering programs in the areas of financial education/capability and work skills support, pregnancy and parenting education, and small business development Each program has its own goals, with outcomes designed to help women make measurable changes in their lives on their road to self-sufficiency.
Bio Systems Research and Development is a Portland, OR-based company in the Non-profit sector.