Flint Area Specialized Employment Services, Inc. Grant

Organization - Flint Area Specialized Employment Services, Inc.
Grant Amount - $150,000
Foundation - Mott Foundation
Grant Purpose - Flint STRIVE provides employment training, placement, and support to inner-city Flint residents seeking private-sector jobs. The program prepares participants for the workforce through a three-week workshop, which focuses on the attitudinal prerequisites for successful entry-level employment. Since its inception in 2001, Flint STRIVE has placed 1,297 program graduates into jobs, with 75 percent of those placed in jobs remaining employed after two years. This grant will allow Flint STRIVE to provide services to 200 new clients in 2008, and follow-up support services to all existing clients.


Similar Grants

Project QUEST, Inc. - $200,000 from the Mott Foundation - This grant will provide general purpose support to Project QUEST, Inc. As a nationally recognized sectoral employment program, Project QUEST defines the skills required to succeed in targeted, hard-to-fill occupations, then recruits, trains, and...

Sociedad Peruana de Derecho Ambiental - $1,117,098 from the Moore Foundation - The Sociedad Peruana de Derecho Ambiental (SPDA) will use this second phase grant to disseminate, refine, and help implement in the Peruvian Amazon the legal framework for private biodiversity conservation areas and concessions it successfully...

Flint Area Specialized Employment Services, Inc. - $85,000 from the Mott Foundation - This renewal grant will provide funding for Flint Area Specialized Employment Services, Inc., to continue to provide alternative staffing services to Genesee County Department of Human Services clients. In the decade since welfare reform, the...

National Governors Association Center for Best Practices - $1,000,000 from the Mott Foundation - The National Governors Association Center for Best Practices, the National Network of Sector Partners, and the Corporation for a Skilled Workforce have come together to coordinate an initiative that in the past two years has significantly expanded...

Flint Club - $57,500 from the Mott Foundation - Flint Club began in 2001 as an organization representing people who have left the city of Flint to pursue education or careers, but to whom the city remains a source of pride and interest. In 2006, Flint Club expanded beyond its virtual community...

Recent News from Mott Foundation