Bridging the Gap Between Low Income Communities and High Paying Jobs
ARC focuses on working with local partners to support job readiness and pre-apprenticeship training programs that enable young adults to enter the building trades. We achieve this by empowering non-profit development partners with financial resources and technical support to build capacity, and by supporting community based organizations that engage and uplift communities. Our main source of advocacy stems from our Grant Program.
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2401 Pennsylvania Ave NW, Washington, DC 20037
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Krosenthal@aflcio-hit.com
Grantee Spotlight
Kingdom Kids
Kingdom Kids is a program where kid’s growth is not only physical but it’s also academic, creative and spiritual. Kingdom Kids is a community service program of La Hermosa Church, which provides a much needed arts programs that engages youngster primarily from ages 4 to 14. Kingdom Kids engages youth in productive activities that will promote self-esteem and keep them away from violence in rough neighborhoods.
Motor city blight busters
Over the past 25 years, Motor City Blight Busters (MCBB), in conjunction with its coalition of community partners can proudly claim utilizing the skills of 120,000 volunteers, who have contributed more than 658,000 volunteer hours to stop the spread of blight while revitalizing and stabilizing Detroit’s long forgotten neighborhoods.
Building Detroit Futures
Building Detroit Futures is revitalizing neighborhoods by renovating vacant houses and putting Detroit residents to work. The program enlists citizens of Detroit into a union pre-apprenticeship training program to introduce them to the skilled trades, pairing trainees with contractors while empowering them to rebuild the city’s neighborhoods. Trainees at the end of the program are connected with a union apprenticeship, with the ultimate goals of modernizing housing stock (and keeping it affordable) and creating a stronger local workforce for construction projects in the city.
Caribbean Integration Community Development (CICD)
Caribbean Integration Community Development (CICD) is a housing and community development organization that creates affordable housing in Boston's neighborhoods with large numbers of people of Caribbean decent. They also invest in high-impact opportunities to enhance the socio-economic well-being for local working families while working to provide local centers for youth to receive after school programs, congregate, and develop interpersonal skills.
Project IMPACT
IMPACT (“Increasing Minority Participation and Access to Construction Trades”) is a partnership of the Hudson County Building Trades, the South Hudson Civic Association, the City of Jersey City, County Vocational School and Workforce Investment Board that seeks to train local minorities from low and moderate income families in preparation for a career in the Building Trades. They recruit through job fairs, trade schools, community events, social service agencies and government agencies. IMPACT also works closely with the Helmets to Hard Hats Program.
Phoenix Family
Phoenix family's goal is to help children families, and older adults living in low income communities shift from crisis to stability and eventually out of poverty. They achieve this by providing food and clothing pantries, eviction prevention, transportation, health, safety and well-being, basic financial resources, advocacy, benefit and entitlement help, job and life skills, after school, debt and credit management, education and literacy, and case management. They serve more than 6,000 people on any given day.
“Because of you, we have been able to achieve all of our working goals”