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First Step News
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Nom Nom partners with First Step Staffing to put 50 individuals on Permanent Path Out of Homelessness
Nashville, TN – November 30, 2020- Just in time for the holidays, pet food processing giant, Nom Nom hired 50 First Step Nashville clients into permanent employment. Nom Nom, a major partner with First Step, regularly employs hundreds of men and women working their way out of poverty. First Step Staffing is a 501C3 that uses an [...]
City of Orlando Putting People on a Path Out of Homelessness Through Work
Partnership with First Step Staffing to Help Vulnerable Residents. Orlando, FL– December 21,2020 – As part of its efforts to connect residents, including some of the most vulnerable in the community, with a path to opportunity, the City of Orlando recently approved an agreement to make First Step Staffing a vendor for staffing services. [...]
Atlanta City Council Officially Proclaims October 16 as Greg Block Day
Atlanta, GA – October, 15 2020- The Atlanta City Council, led by Councilman Amir Farokhi, proclaimed October 16 as Greg Block day in honor of local leader, entrepreneur and founder of First Step Staffing who passed away on August 14, 2020, following a seven year battle with Cancer. October 16 marks the day First Step Staffing (FSS) [...]
First Step Remembers Greg Block
First Step Staffing is extremely sad to announce the passing of our founder, Greg Block. With a personal goal to give back to his community, Greg started First Step when he was just 40 years old. His dedication, ingenuity and passion for helping others helped launch a unique and growing social enterprise that has helped thousands take [...]
First Step Staffing Atlanta Partners with GA Commute Options on Transportation Efforts
We have partnered with Georgia Commute Options, formally the Clean Air Campaign, a program working to reduce traffic and improve air quality. They reward commuters for clean commutes such as carpooling, taking transit, working from home and more. Many of our employees take transit and vanpool every day! For more information on GA Commute [...]
Atlanta Business Chronicle Reports: First Step and Other Community Groups Work Together To Decrease Homelessness
Groups work together to decrease homelessness By Tonya Layman – Contributing Writer January 12, 2020 The number of people living on the streets of Atlanta has declined, in part due to several organizations partnering on a common theme: to lead the charge to make homelessness in Atlanta rare, brief and non-recurring. Over the last decade, [...]
Philadelphia Inquirer Reports: Philly courts hosted a job fair for the pretrial population
by: Juliana Feliciano Reyes, Updated: July 23, 2019 It was an unconventional job fair. There were no splashy banners advertising companies, no branded swag, no suits. Just folks filling out paperwork on the benches of a Philadelphia courtroom Monday — sometimes with a drug test swab in their mouth — waiting for an interview where they’d [...]
Stand Together Foundation Invests in 10 Atlanta nonprofits
By: Maria Saporta, Contributing Writer, Atlanta Business Chronicle The Stand Together Foundation, a national poverty-fighting initiative partly funded by the Koch family, has made a grand entrance in Atlanta by investing in 10 local nonprofits. The Atlanta cohort of 10 nonprofits was launched May 20th at a summit held at the City of [...]
Los Angeles and San Bernandino Counties Consider First Step Rapid Employment Model to Address Homelessness
The recent e-newsletter from the American Roundtable to Abolish Homelessness wrote a piece on employment scaling for homeless people in Los Angeles county and San Bernandino county. It read: Employment has long been a vacuum in homeless policy, an orphan in our policy household. There have been many boutique programs without scale to [...]
First Step Highlighted at IMPACT PHL Conference in Philadelphia
First Step is honored to be part of the projects highlighted at this week’s IMPACT PHL Conference in Philadelphia. CEO Dave Shaffer will join investors and community partners to discuss how various sectors came together to bring First Step to the region and the impact we have had to date. Read the Case Study to be presented here.