When Dan Meyer wanted to entertain executives from Procter & Gamble earlier this week, he took them to Jeff Ruby’s Steakhouse for dinner. Less than 24 hours later, executives from Jeff Ruby’s were at Nehemiah Manufacturing to learn from Meyer about his company’s success with fair-chance hiring. “You guys are the best of the best, […]
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“Fair-chance hiring” means judging a candidate by their present assets, not solely by their past actions. For our latest monthly update video, we check in with Rayshun Holt, program director of Beacon of Hope, a fair-chance hiring initiative launched by Nehemiah Manufacturing and now operated by Cincinnati Works. The Beacon of Hope Business Alliance was
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Cincinnati Works is honored to receive a Bank of America Neighborhood Builder award, a significant investment in the sustainability of our programs and the leadership of our organization. The award includes: $200,000 in flexible funding over the next two years, to ensure our staff has the skills and support to meet the ever-evolving needs of
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Help Wanted signs sprouted like dandelions this spring and summer, as more and more local companies sought to return to pre-pandemic production levels. Many of the signs have gone unanswered, though. Whether out of concern for the virus or opportunities for other income, would-be employees have looked elsewhere. It is not enough to simply hang
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Rayshun Holt has told his story many times, including on television and to audiences of local business leaders. But an 8-minute presentation last March felt different. Holt and his boss at the time, Nehemiah Manufacturing CEO Dan Meyer, were invited to speak to second-year business students at Harvard University on the success of Nehemiah’s second-chance
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Cincinnati Works is excited to announce the hiring of Rayshun Holt as Program Director of Beacon of Hope, a unique initiative that encourages and assists local employers in hiring job-seekers who have criminal records. Holt is a Cincinnati Works Member whose professional experience includes street outreach with our Phoenix Program and supervisory and management experience
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The JumpStart class from November 19-21 was unusually large but otherwise typical of the Members who came through Cincinnati Works in 2019: some flourished, some wilted, some took root but have not yet seen the fruits of their labor. Every Member of the class has access to a dedicated team at Cincinnati Works and an
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As an IT professional for more than 20 years, Rob Krueger has long appreciated the value of diligence and precision. Every line of code has a direct, tangible impact on a program. So, when a jail term caused Krueger to lose “everything but the clothes I was wearing when I went in,” he began to
Regina Pugh was in the Cincinnati Works office recently and noticed a familiar job posting on the bulletin board: a seasonal position at a data-management company where she worked years ago. “I would go back there today if I could,” she said. The problem is getting to and from the company’s office in Sharonville. Pugh
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By Matt Mooney, Vice President Within the span of 10 days, several major news outlets (the Wall Street Journal, Chicago Tribune, and Financial Times) published stories about employers who are applying a particular innovation to fill open positions in a tight labor market. They highlight an increasingly common practice that only a few years ago
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