posted Oct 15, 2009 8:02 AM by Lisa Wilson
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updated Jul 18, 2011 3:40 PM
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February 24, 2009, Leslie Lilly (second left), Executive Director of the Community Foundation for Palm Beach and Martin County presents Lisa Wilson, COO of the Mentoring Center with a big grant check! Others in the photo; Commissioner Golden, Sister Rachel, Monica Delgado, Jacinto Lopez, volunteers and center members!
The Lake Worth Resource Center, a Mentoring Center and partners project, will be able to do more to help immigrant workers and families gain skills that allow them to legally improve their economic situation, thanks to a grant from the Community Foundation for Palm Beach and Martin Counties.
The Mentoring
Center will utilize a two-year $110,000 grant from the Community Foundation to support
the work of The Lake Worth Resource Center, which helps provide a secure place
for workers to gather, gain employable skills and makes employers accountable
for ensuring safe, fair and equitable employment opportunities.
“More than 25 percent of Palm Beach County’s
residents speak a language other than English at home,” said Leslie Lilly at a
recent presentation of the grant check at the center. “A goal in grantmaking
this cycle is to support programs that address barriers of language, culture,
or race in accessing family support services and which support a path to full
citizenship and the rights, obligations, and accountability that engaged
citizenship requires.”
"We are extremely pleased with the
Community Foundation's generous support of the Lake Worth Resource
Center,” said Lisa
Wilson, Chief Operating Officer of The Mentoring Center. “The Community
Foundation clearly has their fingers on the pulse of the needs of the
people. We greatly appreciate that the Foundation has boldly embraced
our mission and is taking the lead in Palm Beach County- we thank them for helping
us provide the services and programs that will move this county forward."
The two-year grant check was
enthusiastically received from the staff of the Lake
Worth Resource Center, Vice Mayor of the City of Lake Worth Jo-Ann Golden and others involved
with the center. A video of the presentation is currently on the Community
Foundation’s YouTube Channel at www.youtube.com/palmbeachmartincf.
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posted Oct 15, 2009 7:59 AM by Lisa Wilson
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updated Jul 18, 2011 3:53 PM
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April 6, 2010, at the Board of County Commissioners' meeting, Commissioner Jess R. Santamaria (left) presented a proclamation to Lisa Wilson (front) declaring April 2010 as "Lake Worht Resource Center's Hire One Work One Week Month" in Palm Beach County. Also picture are the center's volunteers and job-seekers.
As our nation is waits for the Local Jobs for America Act
to help create a million public and private jobs in local communities, the
progressive thinking partners of the Mentoring Center and Lake Worth Resource Center launched an extraordinary jobs
creation and economic stimulus service for Palm Beach County job-seekers now! A proven, bold innovative solution referred
to as “Hire! One Worker, One Week”, launches today for the second consecutive
year.
This day, the Palm Beach County
Board of County
Commissioners recognized the Lake Worth Resource Center’s
model of creating jobs as a viable, grassroots solution and proclaimed April 2010 as the One Worker One Week Month. The proclamation reads:
ONE WORKER ONE WEEK MONTH
PROCLAMATION
Whereas, the Mentoring
Center, a 501(c) (3) public charity and its partners, asked by the City of Lake
Worth, created the Lake Worth Resource Center, a secure place for jobseekers to
gather, gain new employability skills, and be matched with employers for day,
part and full-time jobs,
Whereas, the Lake Worth
Resource Center created the unprecedented, extraordinary, bold approach, One
Worker One Week initiative to encourage the people of Palm Beach County to
share the social responsibility of helping our struggling neighbors by creating
occasional jobs that allow our jobseekers to earn a minimum of one week’s income,
Whereas, at a fair wage, one
week’s income allows jobseekers to address a few of their families’ basic
needs while the income earned, immediately re-invested in local stores and
businesses, stimulates the local economy and,
Whereas, the inaugural One
Worker One Week 2009 campaign and its continued success this year confirms
that home and business owners of Palm Beach County are willing to help provide
temporary job creation relief to struggling families,
NOW, THEREFORE, I, Jess Santamaria,
Palm Beach County Board of County Commissioner, District 6, by virtue of the authority
vested in me by the Palm Beach County Constitution and the laws of Palm Beach County
do hereby proclaim April 2010 as the Lake Worth Resource
Center’s Hire! One
Worker One Week Month. I call upon the homeowners, business owners and
the people of Palm Beach County to observe this month by actively
participating in appropriate programs, ceremonies, and events that stimulate
job growth and economic stability for struggling families in Palm Beach County.
I also encourage its celebration on a national level.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto
set my hand this sixth day of April, in the year of our Lord two thousand ten.
PALM BEACH COUNTY
BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS. |
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