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Jobs Toolbox: A Funder's Guide to Jobs
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The Center for Community ChangeThe Center for Community Change, described in greater detail below, wrote the Jobs Toolbox.Center for Community ChangeThe heart of the Center for Community Change's (CCC) work is helping grassroots leaders build strong community-based organizations, which it believes are the building blocks of change in low-income communities. CCC has offices in Washington, DC and San Francisco, CA as well as staff in several other cities. Every year the Center provides hands-on assistance to more than 250 organizations across the country that work in low-income communities, helping them get started, develop effective boards, raise money, organize their communities, set objectives, devise strategies, win issue campaigns, build housing, and develop a stronger local economy. The Center also works to give low-income people and groups a voice in public policies that affect their communities. It has helped lead campaigns to increase lending in low-income and minority communities, preserve and improve public housing, increase community involvement in federal funding programs, make foundations and other funders more responsive to low-income communities, and much more. The Center's work on jobs has several facets; helping low-income groups conduct campaigns for jobs, training and related services; assisting organizations in launching economic development projects; and conducting research and publishing reports, guidebooks and newsletters on successful approaches to job creation, quality, and access. OrganizationsThere are hundreds of groups around the country working in this area. We weren't able to list all of them in this version of the Toolbox. We plan to list many of them on the NFG web site.Appalachian Center for Economic Networks (ACENet) 94 N. Columbus Rd.Baltimoreans United for Leadership Development (BUILD) 2144 N. Charles St.Center for Employment Training 701 Vine StreetChicago Jobs Council 332 South Michigan AvenueCooperative Home Care Associates 349 East 149th StreetDelaware Valley Community Reinvestment Fund 718 Arch StreetFocus:HOPE 1355 Oakman Blvd.Hartford Areas Rally Together (HART) 227 Lawrence St.Hosiery Technology Center (HTC) Catawba Valley Community CollegeJane Addams Resource Corporation (JARC) 1800 West Cuyler AvenueLabor Connections c/o ChrysalisMilwaukee Career Cooperative 2040 West Wisconsin Ave.Milwaukee Jobs Initiative 2821 N. 4th St.Project QUEST 301 South Frio, Suite 400Seattle Jobs Initiative Marie KuroseSTRIVE 1820 Lexington AvenueWorker Experience Program Workers Organizing Committee (WWOC) c/o ACORN What is NFG?The Neighborhood Funders Group (NFG) is a national network of grantmakers working to expand support for organizations that help low-income people improve their communities. NFG began in 1980 as an informal network of funders with a deep interest in community-based grantmaking. Since then, our membership has expanded to include hundreds of grantmaking professionals. Our members are associated with private or community foundations, family goundations, corporate foundations and giving programs, religious giving programs, public foundations, and other grantmaking institutions.NFG Board of DirectorsSara Gould, Co-chair, Ms. Foundation for WomenSandra Mikush, Co-chair, Mary Reynolds Babcock Foundation Roland Anglin, The Ford Foundation Seth Borgos, Unitarian Universalist Veatch Program Jane Downing, The Pittsburgh Foundation Ken Gregorio, California Community Foundation Gloria Guerrero, National Rural Development and Finance Corporation Antonio Manning, Fannie Mae Foundation Regina McGraw, Wieboldt Foundation Freeman McKindra, Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation Mary Jo Mullan, F.B. Heron Foundation Anita Nager, The New York Community Trust Alvertha Penny, William and Flora Hewlett Foundation James Richardson, Bank of America Texas, NA Garland Yates, Annie E. Casey Foundation NFG StaffSpence Limbocker, Executive DirectorPatricia Taylor, Assistant Director Caren Hearne, Administrative Coordinator How to Join NFG?Institutions, not individuals, are eligible for NFG membership. Each institutional member is entitled to five individual representatives. Call the NFG office at 703-448-2777 for a membership application form.NFG Board members and staff listed above can be reached at the NFG office, 6862 Elm St., Suite 320, McLean, VA 22101; 703-448-1777 (t), 703-448-1780 (f); email: nfg@nfg.org, web site: www.nfg.org. |
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