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Opportunity Partners is one of the area`s largest social enterprise providing production services and workforce solutions to companies of all sizes since 1953. These partnerships solve production needs with quality work and predictable pricing. At the same time, the work creates meaningful and inclusive work opportunities for adults with disabilities, who bring passion and a strong work ethic to all they do. In addition to employment, we help people with disabilities experience success through residential programs that build community and independence. Our core company values of Impact, Choice, Heart and Partnership guide our work and create positive change in our communities.
La Casa de Esperanza, Inc. began in 1966 as History Builders, a small, high quality childcare center, whose goal was to create a smooth transition for children living in a totally Spanish-speaking environment, to the Public School District`s English speaking environment. In 2013, over 40 years later, La Casa continues to grow, with a passion for positive change. Since 1966, La Casa has expanded and now offers five fundamental programs. Our Education Programs include a thriving Early Childhood Education and School Age Education Program for the children and youth in our community. Workforce Development provides comprehensive employment assistance to low-income people seeking economic self-sufficiency.
Porta Cmty Unit Sch Dist 202 is a Petersburg, IL-based company in the Non-profit sector.
Philanthropists Eli and Edythe Broad started The Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation to advance entrepreneurship for the public good in education, science and the arts. The Broad Foundation invests in the people, programs and institutions that are improving the human mind, body and spirit. In addition to supporting the important work of scores of non-profit organizations around the country, the foundation has created groundbreaking independent institutions in each of its three investment areas, including The Broad Center, which develops leaders to help transform America`s urban public schools, The Broad Institute, a global leader in genomics, and The Broad, a museum in downtown Los Angeles devoted to showcasing great contemporary art.
The Bridgeport Housing Authority is committed to advancing the progress and well-being of the City of Bridgeport by developing, owning, funding, managing, subsidizing, and otherwise providing low income and affordable housing for persons of low and moderate income who reside in the City of Bridgeport. Not just a provider of shelter BHA shall seek, through programs and coalitions with others, to move residents from more deeply subsidized low-income public housing units to less deeply subsidized affordable rental or homeownership units - from dependency to independence. BHA will work with the State of Connecticut and with surrounding communities to ensure that those communities provide affordable housing resources to their own residents, so that BHA can focus on the needs of Bridgeport residents. The housing units that BHA develops, owns, funds, manages, or subsidizes shall be attractive, well managed, and provide safe and secure living environments to residents of these properties and their neighbors. BHA shall conduct all of its activities with professionalism and high standards of ethical behavior, upholding the principles of A.C.T. - accountability, communication and transparency - in its policies, rules and operating procedures.