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January 19, 2010 New York
Last year was the most difficult one for poor New Yorkers since the inception of Robin Hood 20 years ago. But thanks to your generosity, in 2009 we invested over $130 million in more than 200 programs and schools throughout the city’s poorest neighborhoods, touching more than 400,000 New Yorkers. Here, we focus on Robin Hood’s work to help the unemployed and underemployed in New York City.
As unemployment tops 10 percent in our city, we are adjusting our job-training investments toward sectors with the greatest promise for boosting income.
In 2009, we granted $11.9 million to 36 organizations housing 49 job-training programs.
- Altogether, our job-training organizations enrolled 12,000 individuals this past year, with two-thirds of this group graduating and seeking positions.
- Nearly 5,000 individuals landed jobs paying, on average, $22,000 annually.
- An additional 3,300 young people were served by programs that help them find work or re-enroll in school.
- By our conservative estimate, every $1 that Robin Hood invests in job training boosts income and other benefits of poor New Yorkers by $25.
In October we launched an innovative collaboration with The Center for Family Life in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, to train 55 women for relatively recession-proof cosmetology jobs. In 2010, we hope to create a Worker-Training Academy to provide marketable job skills to welfare enrollees and place them immediately in jobs.
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Learn more about 2009 and 2010 and how Robin Hood:
Heals | Teaches | Feeds | Nurtures | Shelters
Overview: 2009 Accomplishments, 2010 Challenges
See how Robin Hood Trains. Watch Rochelle's story.
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