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First Step Philadelphia Celebrates One Year Anniversary and the Power of Employment to Transform Lives
Weekly Employment of Over 350 Individuals Experiencing Homelessness in the Region in 2018 and $14.5 Million in Earned Wages Paid Philadelphia, PA – January 31, 2019 On Thursday, January 24, 2019, First Step Staffing (FSS) celebrated the one year anniversary of its expansion to Philadelphia. The event took place at the Wells Fargo Museum [...]
The Seattle Times – What can Seattle learn from cities where homelessness has dropped?
January 24, 2019 / US By Scott Greenstone Seattle Times Project Homeless engagement editor It’s no secret that homelessness has engulfed the West Coast: Rises in cities like Seattle, LA and San Francisco are the reason homelessness in the U.S. has gone up in the last few years while it continues to go down on the East Coast. Project [...]
Forbes – How To Combat Homelessness: Give Vets, Former Convicts And Addicts Jobs
MeiMei Foxi March 10, 2017 Greg Block, the founder of First Step / Staffing for Good, believes that “ a steady and sustainable income is the only permanent, reliable path out of homelessness. ” That is why he founded his social enterprise, which is the largest non-profit, light industrial staffing agency in the United States. Greg Block [...]
RSF Social Finance – Staffing Agency Steps Ahead in Breaking the Cycle of Poverty
By John Meyers Aug 14 2018 Shy of ten years ago, Greg Block saw a gap in homelessness services agencies. While many nonprofits were helping individuals meet immediate needs, such as shelter, food, and healthcare, only a handful focused on income as a sustainable path out of homelessness. As he examined the services in his native Atlanta, [...]
Philadelphia Business Journal – Philadelphia businesses can help fight homelessness. Here’s how.
By Yvette A. Núñez and Dave Shaffer – Guest Columnists Jul 6, 2018, 2:52pm While conversations around workforce development are happening all over the city, organizations are still struggling to find tangible ways to bring more nontraditional populations into the workforce, particularly the homeless and panhandling communities. According [...]
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution – How the Atlanta Braves are helping homeless men and women get jobs
By: Helena Oliviero, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Sept 13, 2017 When Darnell Wood was released from prison a year ago, he immediately started looking for a job. As the weeks dragged on — two weeks, four weeks, six weeks, Wood was no closer to securing employment. Staying in a homeless shelter, Wood received letters from staffing [...]
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 [...]