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The Memphis Business Journal highlighted Seedco as the 3rd largest Workforce Development Initiative in the Memphis region, up from 4th largest the prior year. The analysis highlighted Seedco’s focus on the following industry sectors: Health care, IT, logistics/manufacturing, construction, hospitality, foodservice & retail. Memphis-Area Workforce Development Initiatives Ranked by Local workforce development employees Locally Researched by:…Learn More
Seedco Selected as a United Way of the Mid-South ‘Driving the Dream’ Initiative Care Coordination Hub
February 1, 2019Seedco is proud to announce we have been selected as one of the United Way of the Mid-South’s Care Coordination Hubs through their ‘Driving the Dream’ initiative in Memphis, Tennessee. The United Way of the Mid-South explains that “Driving The Dream is aligned with the two‐generation (“2Gen”) whole family service delivery model that has been…Learn More
Seedco Champions Good Food Jobs at CUNY Urban Food Policy Forum
December 18, 2018On December 18, 2018, Seedco’s Senior Associate Alexander Breen was a panelist at the CUNY Urban Food Policy Forum, which focused on ‘Growing Good Food Jobs in NYC.’ Alexander and his fellow panelists — Lynn Loflin from Lenox Hill Neighborhood House, Alix Fellman from WHEDCo/Bronx CookSpace, and Olivia Blanchflower from GrowNYC — spoke from their…Learn More
Memphis Commercial Appeal Profiles Seedco Programs
October 13, 2018Check out this article from the Memphis Commercial–Appeal that profiles Seedco’s work on behalf of jobseekers in Memphis, especially individuals who have been involved in the criminal justice system. The article is below and also available at https://www.commercialappeal.com/story/money/2018/10/13/memphis-job-market-employment-ted-evanoff/1534161002/ ‘Why can’t I get a good job?’ Memphians ask Ted Evanoff, Memphis Commercial AppealPublished 9:00 a.m. CT Oct. 13, 2018…Learn More
Youth Advancing in the Workplace Participant Speaks at Mayoral Event
September 25, 2018Faith Woney joined Seedco’s Youth Advancing in the Workplace program in 2016, and is one of our many alumni success stories! Seedco helped place Faith in a job at Ovenly, a Brooklyn-based bakery, where she has since been promoted and continues to be an invaluable team member. Faith was invited to speak at the New…Learn More
In June 2018, Seedco was awarded $6 million in new funding from the U.S. Department of Labor’s (USDOL) Re-Entry Employment Opportunity Program to serve a total of 760 justice-involved individuals in four states: New York, Arkansas, Tennessee and Maryland. The programs will launch in July 2018 and operate through 2021. Seedco was awarded $4,358,210 to serve 570 justice-involved young adults ages 18 to 24 in West Baltimore, MD; South Bronx, NY; Memphis, TN; and West Memphis, AR and $1,496,779 to serve 190 justice-involved adults in Memphis, TN and West Memphis, AR. This funding builds on Seedco’s three current re-entry programs in Memphis and Baltimore funded by the U.S. Department of Labor.Learn More
Seedco ‘Youth Advancing in the Workplace’ Model Guides Launch of New CareerLift Initiative in NYC
January 16, 2018Seedco is thrilled to help launch CareerLift, a pilot that aims to grow targeted opportunities for formerly out-of-school and out-of-work young adults to help them stay employed and advance in their careers. CareerLift is led by the City of New York’s Center for Youth Employment, in partnership with Social Finance and JobsFirstNYC. Seedco and Madison Strategies Group are implementing the program. CareerLift draws from and builds upon proven local and national models, including Seedco’s Youth Advancing in the Workplace (YAW) program, which we have operated in NYC since 2014, with a focus on the food sector. With support from The Pinkerton Foundation and The Rockefeller Foundation, this project will evaluate the feasibility of a “Pay for Success” model, in which employers assume the cost of job retention services only if proven successful — a first-of-its-kind funding model in the U.S. for employment retention services.Learn More
Seedco Launches New Approach to Engage and Serve Low-Income Fathers and Their Children
November 26, 2017Seedco’s Strong Fathers, Stronger Families program is implementing the Building Bridges and Bonds (B3) study, a partnership with MDRC, and the Administration for Children and Families’ Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Using a randomized control trial (RCT) design, B3 is designed to test innovative and evidence-informed approaches about the most effective ways to engage fathers and help them become increasingly self-sufficient and responsible parents. MDRC recently released an introductory brief about the B3 study.Learn More
Seedco Expands Health Care Access Efforts in Maryland
August 29, 2017In July 2017, Seedco was awarded a $519,000 grant by the Maryland Health Benefit Exchange to expand its valuable work providing consumer healthcare access to Maryland residents. The new grant expands Seedco’s service area from the seven counties of the Upper Eastern Shore to include three additional counties considered to make up the Southern Maryland Region. These counties are Charles, Calvert and St. Mary’s. Seedco now operates in ten counties and provides health care enrollment services in two of the program’s eight regions.Learn More
Seedco Awarded $1.48 Million from U.S. Dept. of Labor to Serve Justice-Involved Young Adults in Memphis
June 30, 2017Seedco’s Mid-South office in Memphis, TN was awarded $1,480,000 from the U.S. Department of Labor (USDOL)’s Reentry Project grant program to improve employment opportunities for justice-involved young adults in Memphis. This program will build on Seedco’s two existing USDOL grants serving individuals with a history of criminal justice involvement, in both Memphis and Baltimore, as well as Seedco’s programs serving out-of-school youth funded by the Memphis Workforce Investment Network.Learn More