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New Door Ventures helps at-risk youth get ready for work and life through jobs, skill-building and supportive community. We serve youth, ages 16-21, overcoming histories of incarceration, homelessness, substance abuse, and poverty. We provide the real jobs and deep support that enable youth to identify goals, learn healthy behaviors, and become contributing members of society. New Door invests with the goal that 80%+ of its graduates will go on to further education and/or mainstream jobs.

Transforming lives through the power of work, Goodwill Southern California (GSC) serves people with disabilities or other vocational challenges, as well as businesses, by providing education, training, work experience and job placement services. Each year, GSC prepares and places thousands of individuals into sustainable employment through programs and services offered at three campuses, a Communiy Enrichment Center, eight Career Resource Centers, three WorkSource Centers, seven Youth and two Veteran Employment Programs throughout Los Angeles (north of Rosecrans Ave.), Riverside and San Bernardino counties. GSC supports its mission of “Transforming lives through the Power of Work” with proceeds generated from 79 retail stores and 44 attended donation centers.

A strong vibrant community is one in which all of its members contribute to the strengths and assets for the common good. Tierra's mission is to empower people with disabilities to fulfill their potential and desire to become productive citizens who are accepted, included and valued for the contributions they make to the economic, civic, and cultural vitality of the community. We are actively working toward the day when people with any type of disability are fully recognized as an integral part of our community - as neighbors, co-workers, and contributors.

LAANE is a leading advocacy organization dedicated to building a new economy grounded in good jobs and a healthy environment. Combining research, innovative public policy and organizing of broad alliances, LAANE engages in projects that will result in good jobs, thriving communities, racial equity, and a healthy environment. We strive for a society where people have power over their own lives and a voice in civic life, living wages, healthcare, and dignity on the job, where they live in environmentally healthy communities with safe and decent housing, good schools, clean air and clean water, and other basic necessities, and where corporations are held accountable for providing benefits to the community.    

To change the way the world defines and views disability by making profound, positive differences in people’s lives every day.

We empower the youth to turn their passions into professions. Here at Future C.E.O., Inc. we use service, entrepreneurship, and partnerships as our driving force to create change within communities.

Opportunity Village is a not-for-profit organization serving adults in the southern Nevada community with intellectual and related disabilities, to enhance their lives and the lives of the families who love them. Opportunity Village is dedicated to helping people become the very best they can be.

Their Mission: "We empower people who are blind, DeafBlind, and blind with other disabilities by creating diverse, sustainable, and meaningful employment opportunities"

OCAPICA was established in 1997 with the mission to build a healthier and stronger community by enhancing the well-being of Asians and Pacific Islanders through inclusive partnerships in the areas of service, education, advocacy, organizing and research. These community-driven activities seek to empower Asians and Pacific Islanders in defining and controlling their lives and the future of their community.

To empower disabled, economically disadvantaged and at risk youth to complete high school and become self-sufficient, contributing members of society by teaching essential life skills, work ethics, and vocational skills.

Since 1982, the California School-Age Consortium has worked to support and advance professionals and organizations in providing quality and affordable out-of-school time programs. Our vision is that out-of-school time will be a public priority throughout California. Through our leadership, out-of-school time professionals and programs will be valued like teachers and schools as an essential service supported by government, business and community resources. We accomplish our mission through a focus on: Connecting professionals; Enhancing competency; and Building a community. We approach our work with a commitment to: Developing high quality, equity driven leaders; Enhancing local capacity and sustainability; and Building a collective and influential voice. We provide an array of free and low cost services including: Training and professional development, leadership development and advocacy.

JobTrain is committed to helping those who are most in need to succeed. Our purpose is to transform the lives of people in our community through assessment, attitude and job skills training, and high potential career placement. Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/JobTrain Twitter: https://twitter.com/jobtrain Blog: http://jobtrainworks.blogspot.ca/ Instagram: https://www.linkedin.com/company/jobtrain Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbmB3jwHgmrQdm4Gk2nue9w