Where Did the Money Flow?
Your search for Job Training found 19 result(s)
The Food Project (621)
United States - Massachusetts / $5,000
Flow Funder: Malaika Bishop
Year Funded: 2010
Since 1991, The Food Project has built a national model of engaging young people in personal and social change through sustainable agriculture. Each year, they work with over a hundred teens and thousands of volunteers to farm 37 acres in eastern Massachusetts in the towns and cities of Beverly, Boston, Ipswich, Lincoln and Lynn. Their work transforms a new generation of leaders by placing teens in unusually responsible roles, with deeply meaningful work. Food is distributed through Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) programs, Farmers' Markets, and hunger relief organizations. The young people receive valuable job experiences and a personal connection to food justice.
Education for Maria (610)
Brazil / $870
Flow Funder: Bettina Turner
Year Funded: 2010
Maria lives in rural area of Itacare, Bahia, Brazil. When I contacted her, she was studying teaching but was about to abandon her studies, due to lack of funds. Funds were shared to help Maria finish her training and she is due to graduate in February 2011. She is already teaching at the local school, and volunteering at an adult literacy class in her region. In Maria's words: "My first teacher was my mother, with whom I learned to read, write...and dream. At that time, the dream of becoming a teacher like her came to life, and in pursuit of that dream I covered a lot of ground - sometimes rocky, sometimes smooth and today only a few steps away. I feel the sensation of being realized, for on this journey, I gained significant learning experiences, unforgettable experiences and met people - many people - who directly or indirectly are part of my life, just like YOU. The importance or size of your participation, I can not describe, but I can feel and experience the results. Thank you!"
Erika Hansen's Youth Entrepreneur Program at Chill Zone (588)
United States - Massachusetts / $1,500
Year Funded: 2010
A gift was shared with Erika Hansen to support her teaching Youth Entrepreneur classes in business at the Chill Zone. This gift enabled Erika to purchase laptops and a freezer to store food to feed the youth dinner, during their classes.
Saru Enkiteng (551)
Kenya / $2,000
FFCH: First Peoples Worldwide
Year Funded: 2010
Saru Enkiteng is establishing itself as an organization working for the promotion, protection, and effective conservation of natural resources through rational and sustainable utilization of the resources on Indigenous lands and territories for present and future generations. While the Maasai community has appointed a board for the organization, it lacks a central office and point of contact for local communities, so Saru Enkiteng is using its very first grant to build their organizational capacity to enable themselves to more effectively serve the Maasai community. First Peoples' grant supports Saru Enkiteng to create an operating infrastructure by establishing a formal office and installing modes of communication such as a telephone and computer.
Detroiters Working for Environmental Justice (DWEJ) (549)
United States - Michigan / $5,000
Year Funded: 2010
Detroiters Working for Environmental Justice empower individuals, communities, and community organizations in Southeast Michigan to educate, advocate and organize for cleaner, healthier communities and environments. A gift from the Flow Fund Circle supports DWEJ’s work, including: Support of Build Up Detroit (BUD), which uses sustainability principles, citizen engagement, and green job development to help Detroit take the lead in sustainability; Support of the Green Jobs training program, which focuses on building a green collar workforce to transform the city's 50,000 brownfields into viable and sustainable communities; and Support of Youth on Patrol Against Pollution (YOPAP), which enlists young people in environmental advocacy and civic engagement to help shape long-term commitment to environmental justice.
Puget Sound Sage (547)
United States - Washington / $5,000
Year Funded: 2010
Puget Sound Sage brings together labor, faith, and community to make the region's economy work for working people by raising job standards, upholding workers' rights, and growing communities where all families thrive. Puget Sound Sage is a member of the Partnership for Working Families (PWF), a national movement dedicated to building power and reshaping the economy and urban environment for workers and communities. A gift from the Flow Fund Circle supports Puget Sound Sage's work on three areas affecting low-wage workers: green jobs, transportation equity, and clean and safe ports. Recent accomplishments include: Creation of a green jobs coalition in Seattle, including community development, environmental and labor organizations; Launching of a new Transportation and TOD Equity Project, focusing on access to transit, access to transit construction, operation and maintenance jobs, and equity impacts of transit-oriented development (TOD) on affordable housing and permanent job quality; and Supporting the Coalition for Clean and Safe Ports (CCSP), whose goals are to make the Port of Seattle's trucking industry more efficient, to reduce air pollution, and to improve the quality of jobs.
Got Green (546)
United States - Washington / $5,000
Year Funded: 2010
Got Green is a grassroots group led by young adults and people of color that promotes the movement for Green Collar Jobs as the best way to fight poverty and global warming at the same time. A gift from the Flow Fund Circle supports a variety of Got Green's activities, which include: Partnering with the Laborers International Union of North America (LIUNA) and Seattle Vocational Institute to develop our region's only union-certified Weatherization and Installer Technician Training program; Connecting low-income workers to training and green collar job opportunities; and Convening focus groups of low-income women (primarily young women of color) to develop an organizing strategy that better engages women in the opportunities provided by the sustainable green economy.
Sound Alliance (545)
United States - Washington / $5,000
Year Funded: 2010
The Sound Alliance is a member of the Industrial Areas Foundation (IAF), Northwest Region. A gift from the Flow Fund Circle supports a variety of the Sound Alliance's activities, which include: Working with state policymakers to draft and pass legislation using the Sustainable Works model to create a Community Energy Efficiency Pilot program to create jobs for disadvantaged constituencies through energy efficiency retrofit projects; Developing a neighborhood-based customer recruitment model capable of organizing hundreds of customers at a time; and Recruiting and training 80 block organizers in two Spokane and Seattle neighborhoods.
NeEddra James, Principal at Semaphore Creative (539)
http://www.plantingjustice.org/board/needdra-james
United States - California / $500
Flow Funder: Ocean Robbins
Year Funded: 2009
This award was shared with NeEddra James, a Bay Area, California USA Social Justice Activist and Principal at Semaphore Creative, as well as Board Member for Planting Justice, and The Common Fire Foundation. This award helped her get a new laptop computer which will enable her to make use of her considerable creative talents in greater service to the causes she holds dear.
Salim Mohamed, Director of Carolina for Kibera (CFK) (530)
Kenya, United States / $1,000
Flow Funder: Ocean Robbins
Year Funded: 2009
Award was shared in support of Salim Mohamed, Director of Carolina for Kibera. For most of his life, Salim has been working for peace and human dignity in Kibera, Eastern Africa's largest slum, located outside Nairobi, Kenya. Kibera is one of the most polluted and economically destitute places on Earth, but Salim's work has been supporting peace between warring gangs, job training for young people, and youth sports leagues to help young people build health and community. In 2009, contested elections triggered a wave of violence in Kibera and throughout Kenya. Salim experienced the heartbreaking loss of many people he loved. As the violence died down, he needed some time and space to heal and regenerate. This award helped him to travel to the US to get some perspective, and then to participate in a Be Present training with Lillie Allen, which created a healing environment for him to digest and reconnect with his center.
The People's Grocery (224)
http://www.peoplesgrocery.org/
United States - California / $1,000
This seed grant supports a budding cooperative and collectively-run, youth, grocery store and entrepreneurial training institute in West Oakland, providing affordable organic food, jobs, job training, economic development, urban gardens, and social/environmental justice education to the West Oakland community.
Sewing Machines (133)
Kazakhstan / $1,700
Flow Funder: Mira Bocharnikova
A gift was shared to purchase sewing machines so local students can learn a profession.
Sewing Machine (128)
Kazakhstan / $320
Flow Funder: Mira Bocharnikova
A gift was shared to purchase a sewing machine to help teach children how to sew and earn money by selling what they have produced.
Equipment for Job/Social Rehabilitation Project (121)
Kazakhstan / $800
Flow Funder: Ludmila Kurtavtseva
Funds were shared to purchase equipment for a job training center where people who were recently incarcerated learn how to return to life outside of jail.
Furniture Workshop (119)
Kazakhstan / $705
Flow Funder: Ludmila Kurtavtseva
A gift was shared to open a furniture workshop where people can work, learn skills and connect with their local community.
Sewing Workshop (112)
Kazakhstan / $1,200
Flow Funder: Gulmira Beketova
Funds were shared to open a sewing workshop with four sewing machines.
Job Training for Former Convicts (88)
Kazakhstan / $700
Flow Funder: Sonya Aubakirova
A Flow Fund Gift was shared to start a workshop that teaches job skills to former convicts.
Job Training for Youth (77)
Kazakhstan / $1,500
Flow Funder: Aigul Dyusenova
This gift helped open a hairdressing room for youth, giving them an opportunity to gain important job training. With the leftover money, everyone participated in a tree-planing workshop, which helped improve the environment of this town.
Association of Transpersonal Psychology (ATP) (17)
United States - California / $7,000
A gift was shared to assist ATP in the move to a new location, revision to their journal publication, and the creation of a web site.