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Major scale: Behind First Steps Staffing’s outsized acquistion
Major scale: Behind First Step Staffing’s outsized acquisition By Dave Shaffer | Georgia Nonprofit NOW, Spring 2017 After years of running his own thriving businesses, entrepreneur Greg Block decided to make an abrupt career change: founding a nonprofit staffing firm, First Step Staffing. With a curiosity and desire to contribute to the [...]
2016 – Year in Review Report
“2016 was a year of tremendous growth for First Step. In December 2015, we acquired the Atlanta operation of a multi-state, light-industrial, commercial staffing business, growing First Step nearly ten-fold over night. The mission and financial results, outlined through this report, indicate the acquisition has proven to be an [...]
First Step featured in ATL Business Chronicle
Atlanta nonprofit First Step Staffing putting hundreds of homeless people to work
First Step the Subject of Emory Social Enterprise Panel
Mergers happen all the time, but rarely are they as notable as when Atlanta’s First Step Staffing acquired LGS Staffing in December 2015. At the time of the acquisition, LGS, a for-profit company, was 10 times larger than First Step, a nonprofit that operates as a staffing agency for individuals experiencing homelessness. A smaller [...]
Alternative Staffing Alliance Features First Step
Last December, First Step Staffing acquired the Atlanta operations of LGS Staffing, a large, commercial staffing company, as a strategy to grow its average daily placements from 150 to 1,000 workers. A year later, through its relationships with some 70 community referral partners, First Step is recruiting ever higher numbers of homeless [...]
See Change Magazine Features First Step
Toward Sustainability: How one social enterprise found balance between profit and purpose As SEE Change readers well know, one of the most challenging and critical roles of a social enterprise is to scale sustainable solutions. It’s applying our entrepreneurialism consistently, over time, to both the social mission of our enterprises and [...]