Community-based Employment Initiatives

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.

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
Community-based organizations in turn create customized job development plans tailored to their clients’ skills and aptitudes. The services target adults living below or barely above the poverty level, and aim to find them jobs and lead them on the path to financial security.