Washington Women's Employment & Education, with offices in Tacoma and Kent, was awarded four grants during December for its flagship program, Reaching Employability and Achieving Career Habits, or REACH Plus.
The 175-hour, five-week program teaches the skills and behaviors people need to obtain living-wage jobs or get further education for long-term careers.
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Jan. 11, 2010 at 1:58pm WWEE gets $55,500 for REACH programThe organization received $35,000 from an anonymous donor, $7,500 from the William Kilworth Foundation, $12,000 over the next three years from the Catherine Holmes Wilkins Foundation and $1,000 from the JiJi Foundation. During fiscal year 2009, clients entered WWEE with an average wage of $708 and exited the program with an average wage of $1,681. Two thirds of the program's graduates entered full- or part-time employment, higher education or vocational training, or a work related internship. Plenty more in the Archives The comments function of the Business Examiner community is meant to encourage conversations and spark ideas about business issues in the South Sound. The feature is free and open to members of the public who register basic log in information. Comments should be concise, on topic and avoid attacks, profanity or abusive language or content. Comments that are deemed to violate this policy will be removed. |
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