Community-based Employment Initiatives
Seedco’s Community-Based Employment Initiatives serves as a management services intermediary that receives contracts and funding from federal, state and local agencies and then sub-contracts to its community-based organizational partners that are responsible for providing direct services to clients.
In addition to providing community-based organizations with the funding they need to offer job and training services, Seedco supplies its partners with:
In 2007, Seedco's efforts placed 6,300 individuals into jobs at an average starting wage of $10.90
an hour.
Seedco believes that community-based organizations, with their deep ties to local communities, play a vital role in providing job services and moving clients into meaningful employment. Unfortunately local community-based organizations can have a difficult time accessing government contracts by themselves since the contracts are large in scale and require significant infrastructure.
an hour.
Seedco’s Community-Based Employment Initiatives serves as a management services intermediary that receives contracts and funding from federal, state and local agencies and then sub-contracts to its community-based organizational partners that are responsible for providing direct services to clients.
In addition to providing community-based organizations with the funding they need to offer job and training services, Seedco supplies its partners with:
- › Innovative program models
- › Management support
- › Technical Assistance and Capacity-Building that improve partner performance