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Mission
Our Mission:
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.
Our Vision:
We create a unique opportunity for people to develop personal and career goals, and to achieve their aspirations by acquiring relevant skills and positive attitudes about themselves and their potential. People are drawn to JobTrain for our high-value training, effective personal development programs, impressive results, and respect for the individual. JobTrain delivers on the promise of a better life.
Our Philosophy and Beliefs:
We believe in the dignity and potential of every individual.
We believe that with opportunity and motivation, people will help themselves.
We believe that people need and want a hand up, not a hand out.
Key Facts
Geographic areas served:
East Palo Alto, CA; east Menlo Park, CA; Redwood City, CA
Target demographics:
Low-income adults, youth, and children from East Palo Alto, east Menlo Park, and Redwood City, CA.
Results to date:
Since our inception in 1965, more than 130,000 individuals have changed their lives at JobTrain. Our training completion rate is currently 81% and our job placement rate is slightly below 80% with a starting wage of $16.59/hour.
Direct beneficiaries per year: JobTrain serves more than 5,000 people each year. Approximately 500 enroll in full-time adult vocational training; approximately 250 youth are served through training, healthy living programs, and summer internships; 24 children between the ages of 3 and 5 enroll in our Child Development Center.
Indirect beneficiaries per year: Thousands of others use assessment services and career search resources at JobTrain.
Obstacles:
Reduced government funds for job training and a slowed economy have made fundraising more challenging.
What your donation will allow us to do:
A donation to JobTrain provides students with vocational and life skills training, as well as job placement support.
Your donation of $2,500.00 enables us to:
Provide a complete training program to one student. This includes vocational training, life skills classes, instruction in education fundamentals, assessment services, provision of tools and uniforms, job readiness skills, and career counseling and placement services.
Your donation of $500.00 enables us to:
Provide fundamental learning skills to one student. This includes English, math, writing, computer, and job readiness skills.
Your donation of $350.00 enables us to:
Provide one student with the tools and uniforms that their training, and ultimately their job, requires.
Board Members and Affiliation:
Ruben Abrica, City of East Palo Alto
Greg Baszucki, Investor/Entrepreneur
Sukhinder Singh Cassidy, Google, Inc.
Paul Chamberlain, Morgan Stanley
Bud Colligan, Accel Partners
Ronald A. Croen
Jorge del Calvo, Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw & Pittman LLP
Clarence J. “Bud” Ferrari, Ferarri Ottoboni Caputo & Wunderling, LLP
J. Scott Kaspick, Kaspick & Company
John C. Laing
Wade W. Loo, KPMG LLP
Francisca Miranda, Sequoia Union High School District
Geoff Ralston
Tim Ranzetta, Student Lending Analytics
Ian Thomson, Ian Thomson Accountancy Corp.
Isaiah Vi, County of San Mateo
Michael Williams, Sonoa Systems
Key Staff
Sharon Williams, Executive Director
Alonzo Emery, Director of Adult Services
Eric Forgaard, Director of Administrative Services
Allan Johnson, Director of Youth Services
Christal Lee, Director of Finance
Michelle Martin, Director of Development & Marketing