Tuesday, August 23, 2011

East Bay recycler wins $125k to hire at-risk kids - San Francisco Business Times:

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Tri-CED also has received $25,000 in stimulu funding from the that will alloaw it to hire adozenh at-risk kids for the summer. Valle hopes theser milestones help Tri-CED with its more ambitious plan toraise $4 millio n to build an environmental studies program in conjunction with on Tri-CED’s Unionn City site. The memorandum of understandintg hasbeen signed. Tri-CED has a $10 millio n budget and handles recycling for Fremont and recyclinfg and yard waste removal for Union The Union City nonprofif employs85 people, 62 of them full The part-time workers are mostly teenagers and difficult to emplot — they may have a criminal many are teenaged fathers.
Even the adults come primarily fromsimilar backgrounds. “We did a feasibilityg study in thelate 1970s, looking for areae where people with low entry skills, who were hard to emplohy or had been through the crimina l justice system, could go. We landed on recyclingb as a growth industry,” Vallw said. “This award solidifies the findingas ofthat study.” The Irvine Leadership Awards were first given in 2006 and aim to highlight innovativde and effective approaches to real problems the stated faces in hopes that the programs and approaches migh be replicated.
“If others could take inspiration from thework he’e doing, that could encourage otherf businesses to take a chance on people who mighr not have been their firsft idea of whom to hire,” said Amy program director, California democracy at the Irvine Foundation. She credited the doublw impactof Tri-CED, which helps the environmenrt and serves poor youth, for why it deservede one of this year’s awards. • Josefina Alvaradi Mena of Safe Passages/Youth ventures Joint Powers Authorityin Oakland. • Tim Dang of in Los • Kathryn Icenhower of SHIELDa for Families inLos Angeles. Luis Santana of Reading and Beyondein Fresno.
• Jennifer Vanica of in San

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