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Education Job Training Social Services/Youth Development
The mission in this program area is to help low-income and welfare-dependent individuals attain and maintain economic self-sufficiency.

Our primary strategy is to build the skills and employability of low-income and welfare-dependent individuals by funding job training and placement programs. While the Foundation supports a wide variety of job training program models, all focus on a low income or welfare-dependent population, as well as out of school youth; and all have three key things in common:
a focus on job placement (not merely training or job readiness)
a mandatory tracking and follow-up component for at least one (preferably two) years
formal outcomes measurement meeting minimum performance thresholds
In addition to more traditional job training models, the Committee considers social ventures that provide job training opportunities and/or transitional and permanent employment for individuals with high barriers to employment. The Job Training Committee evaluates all ventures on the basis of (i) self-sustaining, revenue-generating potential; and (ii) the social mission (and its fit with the Foundation's mission). Tiger reviews social ventures as a part of the overall job training portfolio with an emphasis on supporting the expansion of proven models.
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