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1951 Coffee Company (1951 Coffee) is a non-profit specialty coffee organization seeking to promote the wellbeing of the refugee community in the San Francisco Bay Area by providing job training and employment to refugees while educating the surrounding community about refugee life and issues. 1951 Coffee's name derives from the 1951 Refugee Convention where the United Nations (UN) defined and set forth its first guidelines for the protection of refugees. The UN defines a refugee as someone who owing to a well-founded fear of being persecuted for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group or political opinion, is outside the country of his nationality, and is unable to, or owing to such fear, is unwilling to avail himself to the protection of that country. These guidelines were further expanded in the 1967 Refugee Protocols, giving the UN a global mandate. 1951 Coffee Company was founded in 2015 in the spirit of these conventions to give refugees resettling in the Greater San Francisco Bay Area assistance in starting their new lives through opportunities in the rapidly expanding coffee industry. This is accomplished through a barista training program that provides immediately marketable job skills for up to 40 refugees a year and through employment for 10 – 15 refugees annually at the 1951 Coffee Shop located in Berkeley, CA, opening late 2016. Seeking to revolutionize how non-profits, employers, and businesses can empower newly arrived refugees, our organizational model will allow the needs of refugees to be the center of all we do.

The Mission of Evergreen is to : Serve. Provide. Champion. We serve, provide for and champion individuals with disabilities.

The purpose of Life Bridge Job Corps is to provide a Christian context in which families in need are equipped for life and employment and a missions context in which Christians serve their community.

Kingdom Builders Community Development Corporation (KBCDC) the redevelopment and revitalization of the spiritual, physical, and social aspects of the Pagedale and surrounding communities. The development and implementation of initiatives to enrich the cultural and educational levels of children, adults and veterans. KBCDC's focus is to improve the quality of life within our community

Simple Steps Community Connection was founded in 2017 to support immigrant women. Simple Steps' mission is to empower immigrant women to pursue their career aspirations by: - Building a community for female talent to support - Providing self-development and skill-building training in need - Connecting female immigrant talent with job opportunities

The mission of Boca Helping Hands is to provide compassionate service through food and assistance programs to individuals, families and children to instill dignity and break the cycle of dependence.  We work to complete our mission every day in our Hot Meal, Pantry, Financial Assistance, and Job Mentoring Programs.  In addition, we have special childrens programs to provide food and support to school age kids.

To rescue and restore orphans and at-risk children in Romania who cannot be adopted out of country. Godly foster care homes are supported who provide loving and safe environments for fatherless children.

Kamileon’s Kloset Professional Development, Inc. is an Atlanta-based 501(c)(3) non-profit organization whose mission is to transform lives by promoting the economic independence of disadvantaged men and women seeking employment. We help each client transition into the workforce by providing professional attire, full-service image makeovers, and employment training. This program enhances the employment potential of each client, effecting a significant reduction in poverty, while underscoring the intrinsic dignity of each individual advancing into the workplace.

Transform children's lives, inspiring and preparing communities to build brighter futures

Research shows that employment is a chief "trigger" in aiding those with the greatest barriers to work in their transition from poverty to productivity and greater prosperity. Nearly three-fourths of poverty spells end with a rise in earnings and employment occurs twice as frequently as any other event associated with an exit from poverty. Employment also encourages social mobility in addition to providing an economic benefit. A job strengthens human capital, facilitates access to financial capital, builds interpersonal skills, and enhances social networks. Having a job boosts employees' self-confidence and is source of dignity and pride. But entering and staying in the workforce is extremely difficult for many people who live in protracted poverty and have also confronted homelessness, health problems, fragmented families, incarceration, and inadequate access to a good education. The private sector is often unwilling to hire employees facing these barriers or provide adequate support to address the many challenges that can undermine their success once on the job. Few workforce development programs have achieved positive outcomes preparing those workers that are most disconnected to jobs, or creating durable pathways to employment. MDRC, one of the premiere researchers in this area, summarizes this consensus: "For at least three decades, policymakers, researchers, and program operators have developed and studied strategies to help people who face serious obstacles to steady work. Despite the broad policy interest in serving the hard-to-employ, knowledge about effective program strategies is still relatively undeveloped." REDF is uniquely positioned to address this problem. Our successful track record of building the capacity of nonprofits to operate social enterprises and the success those businesses have demonstrated in employing, retaining and advancing their employees is a solid foundation to build on as we invest in our new portfolio and expand the role we play with the organizations that we intensely supported for many years.

Provide financial support to the Center for the Visually Impaired (CVI).

The mission of Dress for Success New Orleans is to empower women to achieve economic independence by providing a network of support, professional attire and the development tools to help women thrive in work and in life.