Blogging Ahead

Are you Ready 4 Work?

I'm working on a story about the Labor secretary announcing $10 million in funding for Ready4Work, one of the president's faith-based-type programs, this one designed to help ex-cons get jobs.

(Jacksonville's New Hope Foundation, which ran the Ready4Work pilot program so successfully that the idea has now spread to 14 other cities, will get about $1 million of the funding.)

Here's some more background on the program:

• The Department of Labor's backgrounder on Ready4Work
  
• The Web site of Public/Private Ventures, the group through which the federal funding actually flows. (Its Ready4Work section is here.
  
• Information about Operation New Hope, the Jacksonville organization that will actually use the money.
  
• How the Ready4Work program has worked in Camden City
  
• and in Philadelphia
  

Posted by tgibbons at July 27, 2004 03:25 PM