Organization Spotlight: Union Gospel Mission
Motivated by their Christian faith, the leaders at Seattle's Union Gospel Mission share a passionate desire to serve, rescue, and transform those in greatest need through the grace of Jesus Christ. As a group, these men and women bring hundreds of years of ministry experience to the table. That experience, combined with a consistent dependence on prayer and the Bible, informs the direction of the Mission.
Organization Spotlight: Cornbread Hustle
Cornbread Hustle is a staffing agency for Second Chances. They offer background-friendly jobs to people with a criminal history and those in recovery.
This organization is doing incredible work in the Dallas, Texas, area in second-chance employment!
Organization Spotlight: Cares of WA
Cares of Washington’s mission is to support people with disabilities, barriers to employment, and low incomes to realize their purpose, potential, and strength.
Organization Spotlight: Workforce Foundation
Workforce Foundation works to empower all justice-impacted people to live a life they choose; believing that all people are deserving of living-wage jobs.
They offer fantastic programs for employment assistance, mentorship, coaching, and education for individuals with previous criminal justice involvement.
Organization Spotlight: Defy Ventures
Defy’s entrepreneurial programs enable one of America’s largest forgotten communities to defy the odds. We equip them with new skills, new connections, and a new belief to match their new purpose, and succeed in their new life of economic independence.
Organization Spotlight: Skills Inc
Skills Inc. is a self-supporting, nonprofit social enterprise that employs people of ALL ABILITIES in aerospace manufacturing, aerospace finishing, technical services and business solutions. It is also focused on providing worker training and opportunities for those with traditional barriers to finding and keeping employment.
Organization Spotlight: What's Next WA
What’s Next Washington is an organization of formerly incarcerated individuals and allies working to improve the ability of people with conviction histories to reintegrate into society and achieve longterm economic stability.
Organization Spotlight: NW Community Bail Fund
The Northwest Community Bail Fund (NCBF) provides cash bail for marginalized people charged with crimes who are unable to afford bail and find themselves incarcerated while awaiting routine court appearances in King, Snohomish, and Pierce Counties in Washington State.
Organization Spotlight: Orion Industries
Orion has a simple belief: that good jobs change lives. They are a social enterprise that uses an aerospace manufacturing business to provide worker retraining for individuals with barriers to employment.
Organization Spotlight: Pioneer Human Services
Pioneer Human Services is a fantastic organization that provides treatment, housing, job skills training and employment to individuals released from prison or jail, and those in recovery, in Washington state.
Organization Spotlight: A Second Chance Staffing Agency Making a Difference
There are many great organizations that provide help and hope for those leaving homelessness, but this nonprofit also provides employment placement and support.
Organization Spotlight: Dave’s Killer Bread Foundation
In my research into second-chance employment, I run across the great work these folks do all the time. Dave’s Killer Bread purposely employs people with criminal convictions, and their foundation shows other companies the importance of employing this population. Besides the link to their website, I have also included the link to a great short video that tells their story. Enjoy!