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HOPE Springs Eternal
Give HOPE This Spring!
The past year has seen a As the economy rebounds, there
profound reimagining of how are countless New Yorkers who
we achieve our mission to build lack the skills, resources and
sustainable futures through support to build careers in a
comprehensive training, jobs, rapidly evolving labor market.
advancement and lifelong
career support. With your support, HOPE will
play a vital role in supporting
Through large-scale New York City’s recovery by
improvement in digital access ensuring that it is equitable
and work-ready computer and inclusive.
skills; doubling down on
wellness and case management; We are immeasurably grateful
and expanded meaningful paid to have you by our side for this Amiel L., age 32
work experience, our programs urgent work.
are stronger than ever.
But our work is not yet done.
Jennifer Mitchell
Executive Director
bit.ly/hopespringseternal2021
CONTACT US Irene Branche: ibranche@thehopeprogram.org | thehopeprogram.org
Branching Out HOPE is in
the media!
In the new HBO Max
documentary Persona - as well
We’re launching a new training as the podcast “In Machines We Trust” -
program in HVAC installation, HOPE highlights the systemic barriers to
repair, and maintenance. This Our new YouthBuild employment our community faces and
training will connect more program leverages a how we are a part of the solution.
jobseekers to highly lucrative proven international model
clean energy careers. to engage young adults in high
school equivalency preparation,
essential job skills, industry-recognized
certifications, and hands-on
training to restore affordable housing.
HOPE is leading the field
CoolRoofs is back! in building networks of
New Yorkers are employers and training
earning wages to improve
providers - including Green Economy
building energy efficiency by applying
Network, the Jerome Avenue
rooftop coatings while participating in
Revitalization Collaborative, and YES
comprehensive training for future careers.
Bed-Stuy - to share best practices and
expand access to job
opportunities for New
Yorkers most in need.
HOPE is preparingNew Yorkers for some
of the fastest-recovering industries
GREEN ECONOMY CAREERS CO NSTRUC TIO N TR A DES FOOD A N D HOSPI TA LI TY
AS CITY, STATE AND CONSTRUCTION HIRING DESPITE DECLINES EARLY IN
FEDERAL OFFICIALS MAKE HAS REBOUNDED TO 2020, THIS SECTOR GREW BY
90% 39%
TRANSFORMATIVE
INVESTMENTS,
the time is now to prepare
communities historically of pre-pandemic levels, later in the year and is on
left behind for green jobs. by some estimates. track for a strong recovery.
HOPE Blooms
HOPE students
and graduates
received $610,000 in
332 young adults
earned wages and
planted the seeds for
direct assistance
brighter futures
to provide for
HOPE connected by engaging in HOPE’s
their families.
graduates with job training, high school
404 new jobs. equivalency education,
digital literacy, wellness,
and more.
HOPE trainees
HOPE narrowed
greened and beautified
the digital divide by
21,480 sq. ft. of community
distributing nearly
space in the South Bronx,
471 635 laptops and
HOPE provided planted 540 flowering
New Yorkers WiFi hotspots.
wellness support plants, and tended to 400
celebrated trees, all while earning
to 967
one, two, or three wages and building
New Yorkers.
years in the their resumes.
workforce.
Between mid-March 2020 and mid-March 2021Leon S., age 31
I spent my 20s getting high OSHA certification - got it! Site
on cocaine. Then I needed Safety Training certification for
something to bring me down, construction jobs - got it! Air
so I started using heroin. A guy sealing certification - got it!
I knew taught me how to use
needles. I got hooked the very HOPE also connected me
first day and it got real bad with a job maintaining
from there. Drugs landed me storage pods for bikes and
in federal prison where I did scooters. I like the work. It’s a
six years. new company and I’m growing
with them.
When I came home from
prison, I found HOPE. They My daughter is 10 now. She’s
taught me all my digital the smartest thing in the
skills. I didn’t know anything world. I tell her I’m doing HOPE gets
about computers, never had everything that I’m doing really personal with
a resume in my life. Now, I today so that her future can
you. I loved that.
have cover letters for be good too. And my daughter,
different jobs! she looks at me like, “Okay, Because they will
now that’s my dad.” teach you, you just
This is all good stuff that I’m got to take it and
getting at HOPE.
absorb it.Britney A., age 24
Before I found HOPE, I was track heating and cooling
looking for employment, but in the apartments. At first,
because of the pandemic, residents have no idea what
there were no jobs. So I it’s about. But my job is to
decided to learn a new trade. educate them. And I grew up
in public housing in Harlem,
I applied to HOPE and we so I really know how to put
started virtual training right the residents at ease.
away - workplace safety,
solar panels, horticulture - I hope to grow in this
all of it. After I finished company and someday be
HOPE, they actually got a contractor for a solar or
me a paid internship. energy company. And I’m
staying in contact with HOPE.
No matter Even now, HOPE has so many They say “HOPE for Life” and
opportunities for me. I chose that means no matter how
what circumstances a job with Energy Training long ago you graduated,
you may be Solutions because it’s all they’re going to check on you
about saving energy. We and make sure you have the
facing, HOPE is make public housing better resources you need.
still there. by installing devices that
Hear Britney tell her story!
bit.ly/hope_britneyChristopher N., age 41
My first prison sentence And I earned certifications
was 5 years; my second was that guys who have been in
a decade. In prison, I found the field for years still need
the confidence I needed to to get.
go from a GED to a master’s
degree. But HOPE was more than
that. They helped me cultivate
Even with an education, I something new inside of me
came into the world 40 years and grow. Today, because of
old, almost no job experience, HOPE, I work for a commercial
and in the midst of a pandemic. solar installation company.
It was a scary time. My parole They’re partnering with HOPE
officer told me about HOPE to give people like me who
and they embraced me in a are brand new to the industry
way that changed everything. an opportunity. I went from
unemployed
HOPE has these computer Everybody in my family to part-time to full
classes – I had been away keeps asking how I’m doing
employment in under
from computers for 10 years it. I got to take some of the
and couldn’t even really credit, but I couldn’t have a year of coming out
function on a cell phone. Now done it without HOPE. of an impossible
technology is wonderful. situation.A SOUND Investment bit.ly/hopespringseternal2021
Recruitment, classroom-based
learning & certifications
Direct payments
to trainees
22%
Hands-on training & 21% Job placement &
community greening career advancement
Digital literacy
16% & tech to trainees 16%
Wellness
12%
Other
7%
6%
Based on program expense allocations for FY’21Thank you to our HOPE Springs Eternal Sponsors:
CHAMPIONS FOR CHANGE FRIENDS
Susan Elolampi Irene Faye Branche
Inessa Even & Scott Manziano Elizabeth Gaffney
Gabrielle Levin & Keith Gross Cynthia & Michael Maloney
Alina & Dan Schechner
Carla Shen & Chris Schott
Lauren Samuel HOPE SPRINGS ETERNAL COMMITTEE
Anthony Lennon, Co-Chair
INVESTORS Lauren Samuel, Co-Chair
Nancy & Anthony Bowe Robert A. Goldstein
Kevin Hungate Susan Elolampi
Calvin Liou Inessa Even
Gabrielle Levin
Dana Worthy
Kylie Mills & Anthony Lennon
Jennifer Mitchell & David Szuchman
Dana & Ronald Worthy
This list is in progress and represents our supporters as of May 17You can also read
