Workforce Development - We Raise Foundation

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Workforce Development. When we focus on people and workforce development, we bring stability to our communities. By investing in our workforce, we provide opportunities to make a living wage.

WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT GRANTS

We believe a robust, qualified workforce is central to building healthy individuals, families, and communities.

We Raise invests in programs providing individuals the education, skills, and training required to acquire living wage employment to support themselves and their families.

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WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT GRANTS

We believe a robust, qualified workforce is central to building healthy individuals, families, and communities.

We Raise invests in programs providing individuals the education, skills, and training required to acquire living wage employment to support themselves and their families.

VIEW GRANTEE STORIES

Former Gang Member’s Life Transformed Through MAAFA Redemption Project

Two years ago, Glenn Adams walked through the doors of New Mount Pilgrim Missionary Baptist Church on the West Side of Chicago with the sole purpose of securing a paycheck. He was desperate to make money after suffering gunshot wounds to his leg and hand that left him with a missing ring finger.

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Emerging Leader Lives Life of Service

Elizabeth Galik, Executive Director of River City Development Center (R CITY) in Chicago, Ill., and a 2017 We Raise Foundation Emerging Leader Grant recipient, calls her life “pretty ordinary,” despite the fact that she lives in a neighborhood that many avoid.

R CITY operates in Chicago’s West Humboldt Park (WHP) neighborhood, an area that ranks in the top 1% of Chicago police beats for prostitution, drug arrests, violent incidents, and homicide. It’s also a neighborhood where families face a poverty rate of 98.8%. Galik and her family are embedded in the neighborhood, living with and walking along side residents and serving “the least of these” with love and compassion.

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