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Mission
As an innovative social enterprise, The Stride Center’s mission is to empower men and women facing barriers to employment to achieve economic self-sufficiency. We provide a comprehensive career development program that includes job skills training, credentials, career coaching, work experience and job placement assistance.
Key Facts
Geographic areas served:
San Francisco Bay Area, Sacramento
Target demographics:
The students who enroll at The Stride Center are 75% unemployed, 29% have a criminal record, 21% working poor, 21% single parent, 6% disabled, 4% homeless and 4% history with substance abuse, 60% African American, 20% Latino, 20% Southeast Asian/Pacific Islander, average age is 32, 70% male and 30% female. The income level is 84% extremely low, 11% very low and 5% low.
Results to date:
Over 1,000 individuals enrolled, with an over 80% program retention rate. Current job placement rate is well over 80% of job ready program graduates. The Stride Center is the winner of the California Governor’s 2002 Technology Innovation Award and the CompTIA Workforce Development Excellence Award.
We are refurbishing hundreds of computers a year.
Direct beneficiaries per year: Over 1000 students trained, hundreds of computers refurbished and provided to nonprofits, schools, and individuals.
Indirect beneficiaries per year: As a social venture with ReliaTech, www.reliatech.org, we offer community based, low cost computer repair and network support at highly affordable costs.
Obstacles:
subsidizing training for low income students, many of whom cannot afford even minimal tuition fees. Expansion costs to even more communities in need
What your donation will allow us to do:
Grow our impact to communities such as Richmond, expand in Oakland, San Francisco and to the South Bay. Change the lives of even more families through economic opportunities.
Your donation of $100 enables us to:
buy one of the text books required or cover the cost of the certification exam.
Your donation of $5,000 enables us to:
Dedicate required resourced to expand community-based collaborations, enroll even more students, hire instructors, counselors, and increase the impact exponentially.
Your donation of 25,000 enables us to:
Develop new location opportunities
Board Members and Affiliation:
Paul Lamb, President, Man On A Mission Consulting
Debbie Lamb, Secretary
Jerome Lourme, Treasurer, Charles Schwab Co.
Charles Toombs, Legal Advisor
Geanie Asante, Project Manager,Wells Fargo
Jolly Singh, Bank of America
Glen Price, CEO, The Glen Price Group
Stephen Baiter, Administrator , Contra Costa One Stop Consortium/EASTBAYWorks
Oliver Parker, Microsoft Services
Past and Current Funders:
California Emerging Technology Fund , California Consumer Protection Fund, Chevron, East Bay Community Foundation, Microsoft, Lesher Foundation, Y&H Soda Foundation, United Way Bay Area, Wells Fargo, Tipping Point Community, Full Circle Fund, San Francisco Foundation
Key Staff
Barrie Hathaway, Executive Director
Michelle Shutzer, Associate Director
Joe McKinley, Director of Training
Rachelle Forbes, Office Manager
Stan Wade, Enrollment Coordinator
Liliana Melano,Student Relations Manager
Isaias Leiva, Instructor
Norman Trudeau, Instructor