The Cara Program has a mission I really like. It is rated 4 stars on Charity Navigator (http://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm?bay=search.summary&orgid=7698) and they work locally in Chicago.
Since its founding in 1991, the Cara Program has evolved as not only a best-in-class job training and placement provider for individuals affected by homelessness and poverty, but also a vehicle for true life transformation. Since its inception, they have placed over 3,250 individuals into quality, permanent employment (at one-year job retention rates of 77%), catalyzing the same number of families to stop the transfer of poverty from one generation to the next.
In addition, The Cara Program boasts two social enterprises - one in neighborhood beautification and the other in property preservation - that achieve a triple bottom line: over $2 million in revenue annually, more than 250 transitional jobs per year for the hardest to employ, and a steady strem of permanent jobs created within our own growing business. For every dollar invested into The Cara Program, $5.02 is generated out over five years, in contributions to society and public costs saved.
More information is available at www.thecaraprogram.org.
Thursday, July 5, 2012
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