CommunityRoom.net - Career Collaborative, Inc.

Career Collaborative was founded in December 1997 by Dr. Susan Fox Schiro to help low-income people from the Boston area become permanently economically self-sufficient by helping them get full time permanent jobs that pay $20,000-$30,000 a year with benefits, keep those jobs, and make career progress. Since its inception in 1998, Career Collaborative has demonstrated that comprehensive employment services combined with intensive supportive and mentoring services lead to continuous employment:

Seventy percent (70%) of our clients have completed two years of continuous employment or are currently employed and working toward that goal.
Mentees have earned more than $7.25 million during their mentoring period compared to our cumulative expenses of $2.4 million. These numbers understate our value to society. Once employed, clients' need for public assistance is sharply reduced and eventually eliminated.
Career Collaborative has helped over 1,100 people. In 2008 we will serve over 250 low-income adults.

Once employed, our clients become role models and mentors for their children, families, friends, and acquaintances. Their children grow up expecting to be self-supporting. Society benefits: as people move from poverty to economic self-sufficiency, they contribute to the region's prosperity.

Who are our clients?

Low-income, motivated men and women who are chronically unemployed or underemployed
Historically, they do not know how to get and keep a job with career potential
They are ages 22 to 55, with a median age of 34.
72% are female, 63% are black and 21% are Hispanic
The majority are single parents
They live in Boston, especially Roxbury, Mattapan and Dorchester

What do your donations support?

Job-search course, four weeks: $1,000 per client
Individual job-search assistance: $2,500
Mentor/coach a client for at least two years after employed: $2,500
Staff: 11 full time staff (8 full time program employees)
Volunteers: 150 very generous volunteers

Board of Directors

Chairperson: Jerome J. "Jerry" Jacobs, Argent Wealth Management

President: Susan Fox Schiro, Career Collaborative

Treasurer: Peter E. Madsen, Edo Essex Properties

Clerk: Beatrice Lorge Rogers, Tufts University

Dennis G. Assad, Unifirst Corporation (Retired)

Bonnie Clendenning, School for Field Studies

Harry S. "Hawk" Furman, Hawk Communications

LouAnn Muir, Fidelity Investments

Brenda J. Sousa, EPIX Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

Dorothy Shannon Swithenbank, Boston Community Capital (Retired)

William F."Bill" Weihs, State Street

Advisory Board

Royal L. Bolling, Jr., Computer Learning Resources

Michael F. Cronin, Weston Presidio

Richard D. Glovsky, Esq., Prince, Lobel, Glovsky & Tye

Steve Grossman, Grossman Marketing Group

Mel King, The South End Technology Center@Tent City

Tim R. Palmer, Charlesbank Capital Partners

Employer Advisory Board

Chairperson: Brenda J. Sousa, EPIX Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

Katie Barszcz, John Hancock

Emily Beck, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

Rebecca S. Blair, Faulkner Hospital

Karen Conway, Pine Street Inn

David Henderson, Nutter, McLennan & Fish

Margaret Heylin, Nutter, McLennan & Fish

Sean T. Kenney, Keystone Associates

Nancy Kraybill, Boston University

Julia B. Leonard, Tufts University

Edward Melia, zenhire

Patricia Murphy, Fidelity Capital

Jeanne O'Connor-Green, State Street

Peter Pedro, Bostonian Group

Lisa Ryan, John Hancock

Cheryl Whitfield, Northeastern University

Sonia Willingham, Northeastern University

Financial Information

Financial information about Career Collaborative, including our tax return, is available at GuideStar.

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