Reimagining Pathways to Employment in the US Challenge
PeopleShores PBC Pathways
In response to Film your elevator pitch.
This solution appears to innovative, relevant and positively impact it's participants. It appears it will benefit communities by offering increased income levels, career pathways, rapid reskilling and more.
In response to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion: What is your approach to building a diverse, equitable, and inclusive organization?
This is great info so far. I would like to know the specific racial breakdown, as this would allow the measurement between who was helped, and what disenfranchised community they represent.
We setup our technology centers in inner cities and economically distressed rural communities to train and employ young adults in those communities. In our Clarksdale, Mississippi center, we employ neary 105 people of which 95 are African Americans. The balance 10 include indigenious, white and Asian. Similarly, our upcoming center in Pine Bluff, Arkansas center will have a similar ratio as 80% of the poulation is African Amercians. Both Clarksdale and Pine Bluff are economically and socially distressed communities. Our planned center in inner city of Bronx, New York is primarily to employ Blacks and Hispanic/Latinos.
In response to Who does your solution serve, and in what ways will the solution impact their lives?
This solution method of working with the local organizations, colleges, etc... works, as those locally engaged in the community will have the most accurate information about the community.
That is correct, participation of local community organizations is crucial to the success of our initiative. They not only provide accurate information but also knows how to channel the benefits from our initiative into the community. Given that we train and employ nearly 200 people in each center, the income generated by our employees stimulates economic activity in the community resulting in a mutilpier effect.
In response to What is your solution?
This solution at scale, would offer near immediate assistance to the BIPOC community. As long as the participant can have access to the training/resources for free or a extremely reduced cost, as to not take on debt those communities cannot handle.
Michael, you will be pleased to know that the participants actually get paid during the training. Upon successful completion of the training, they will be offered fulltime employment in our technology center located in their own community. Because, they get paid, the success rate of people transitioning from training into employment is 90%.
In response to What specific problem are you solving?
This solution will really help BIPOC communities, especially if there can be a base within these communities
Yes, that is the whole intent of establishing our centers in locations such as Clarksdale (MS) and Pine Bluff (AR) where 80% 0f the population is African American origin.
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