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Catalyst Kitchens

Catalyst Kitchens is a national network of social enterprise and non-profit organizations with teaching kitchens leading a movement to end joblessness through food service job training and social enterprise.

Paul’s Place, Inc.

Paul’s Place’s mission is to be a catalyst and leader for change, improving the quality of life in the Southwest Baltimore communities. Paul’s Place provides programs, services, and support that strengthen individuals and families, fostering hope, personal dignity, and growth. This includes Hot Lunch, Market Place, Nurses’ Clinic, and their after-school programs for elementary, middle, … Continue reading Paul’s Place, Inc.

Riverview Gardens, Inc.

Riverview Gardens is a non-profit organization in Appleton, Wisconsin with a mission to build dignity through job training and employment. They believe in the dignity of hard work and allowing people to be part of their own solution. This project engages the entire community in addressing the root causes of unemployment, poverty, and homelessness through … Continue reading Riverview Gardens, Inc.

Opportunity Kitchen

Operated by Columbia Industries, Opportunity Kitchen is a 12-week vocational food service training program designed to prepare individuals striving to overcome barriers to employment for successful careers in food service, catering, and hospitality industries.

Food Shift

Food Shift’s apprenticeship program, The Food Shift Kitchen, is a joint food recovery operation, workforce development program, and social enterprise kitchen. It provides on-the-job culinary training, real-world job skills and paid apprenticeships for small cohorts of San Francisco Bay Area neighbors facing barriers to employment.

Goodwill Industries of Greater Cleveland

Goodwill Industries of Greater Cleveland and East Central Ohio, Inc. has been serving the local community for more than 100 years as an independent Goodwill affiliate. Goodwill is a nonprofit, social service agency dedicated to improving the lives of all people by providing skill-building programs and services needed to help remove common barriers to good … Continue reading Goodwill Industries of Greater Cleveland

Mile High Workshop

The Mile High WorkShop is a nonprofit employment and job training program for those facing barriers to work through the manufacturing, production, and fulfillment of goods. The Denver-based WorkShop provides contract manufacturing services in sewing, woodworking, laser etching/cutting, handmade assembly, and packaging/fulfillment services, in order to employ people rebuilding from homelessness, addiction, and incarceration.

Neighborhood Industries

Neighborhood Industries provides workforce development services and employment to people living in neighborhoods of concentrated poverty and historic underinvestment in Fresno, California. They operate several social enterprise businesses that also benefit the greater community: a thrift store, textile and e-waste recycling facility, vintage shop, and a program that produces and distributes emergency grocery boxes to families … Continue reading Neighborhood Industries

Opportunity Construction

Opportunity Construction is an employment social enterprise committed to providing valuable on-the-job training and opportunities to people overcoming barriers to employment, including those who have experienced incarceration. Opportunity Construction uses a holistic approach to ensure participant success. In addition to accessing training and living wage transitional employment with Opportunity Construction, participants receive wraparound services through OC … Continue reading Opportunity Construction