Twin Cities Rise
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The Charities Review Council is an independent resource for people who make contributions to support charities. When an organization meets all 27 of their Accountability Standards, they earn the Meets Standards seal. Twin Cities Rise has also received the CRC seal and you can read more about their CRC recognition here: http://www.smartgivers.org/Report/Report.aspx?EIN=411761118.
Headquarters Location: Minneapolis , MN
Founded: 1994
Mission: The mission of Twin Cities RISE! is to provide employers with skilled workers-- primarily men from communities of color in the Twin Cities area-- by training under- and unemployed adults for skilled jobs that pay a living wage of at least $20,000 annually.
Tags:
employment training, job placement, low-income, workforce re-entry, community development, social enterprise, chemical dependency, minnesota, 2011
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Leadership
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Leadership
Arthur Berman.
Arthur Berman is the president and CEO of TCR! He was previously senior vice president & treasurer at Ameriprise Financial, and a management consultant at Booz, Allen & Hamilton. He received his MBA from the Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania, and studied Economics at Bowdoin College for his bachelors' degree.
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Financial Data
Overhead Ratio:
24.06%
Total Revenue:
$3,461,000
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Contact Info
Website:
E-Mail:
info AT twincitiesrise.org
Phone:
(612) 338-0295
Facebook:
Address:
800 Washington Ave North, Suite 203
Minneapolis , MN 55401, USA
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Story:
Shauntina had to support her family, but with a felony on her record she couldn't find a job that paid a living wage, much less a job she enjoyed. On top of caring for her infant at home, working two jobs and taking classes at TCR, Shauntina was surrounded by negative people in her life. Through Personal Empowerment, Shauntina has learned to regulate her emotions during these times of frustration and anger. In June 2008, Shauntina was hired as an Administrative Assistant at Urban Homeworks, and she loves her job. "[Urban Homeworks] is an organization that helps low-income individuals in urban communities which is something I am passionate about. I like helping others who are in a similar situation as me," said Shautina.
Expert Reviews of Twin Cities Rise
Evidence of Impact Summary:
Twin Cities Rise invests heavily in the training and coaching of low-income individuals, ultimately placing its participants in career-track jobs that earn a living wage and benefits. The organization has both an immediate impact on the people it serves and a long-term, systemic impact on the community through changing attitudes.See expert comments.
Organization Strengths Summary:
Experts said that TCR!'s Empowerment Institute curriculum was a key strength in both motivating participants and earning revenue for the organization. They also praised the TCR!'s community oureach, leadership, focus on very hard-to-serve populations, and advocacy for systemic change.See expert comments.
Areas for Improvement Summary:
Experts suggested that TCR! could be more accessible to the very neediest clients, collaborate more with similar organizations, and expand its training options.See expert comments.
Expert Comments: Evidence of Impact
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Twin Cities Rise has very strong leadership and a tightly-focused mission of making available to its participants a full set of education and tools to succeed in the workplace. They seek out those who have failed before or never tried to enter. Through specific coursework and empowerment training, they move many of their graduates into meaningful employment within a network of larger local employers. | ||
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TCR!'s training programs and coaches are effective in getting their graduates jobs. They measure their success with jobs that pay a living wage and benefits. | ||
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They emphasize training and career type employment. | ||
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Twin Cities Rise focuses on empowerment training and has a high level of engagement in the community. They also have visible partners and high standards in regards to what kind of jobs they seek for clients. | ||
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TCR! does great work in soft skill development and coaching. They have a good model for continuing support around their graduates. | ||
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They have a terrific "empowerment" training model that helps people being trained understand and accept that they are ultimately responsible for their own destiny. People need to own their destiny to really make meaningful change and believe they have the power to make and sustain that change. | ||
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They have a track record with intensive intervention and job placement for hard-to-employ persons. | ||
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TCR! works with individuals who face significant barriers to employment, often including criminal backgrounds and limited work histories. They invest tremendous resources into these individuals in order to make them competitive for decent jobs. Their participants make upwards of $24,000 at placement and tend to have good job retention rates. | ||
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They serve underrepresented/underserved individuals. | ||
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They have a strategic community impact and clear results. They are responsible for direct immediate community change and residual long term change. They are one of the few nonprofits working actively and successfully to address an issue that is systemic. | ||
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They provide long term training that can help low-income clients penetrate corporate jobs. | ||
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They have strong leadership and visibility as the "go to" organization for workforce development. | ||
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Their strengths include marketing and attachment to business community. | ||
Empowerment training curriculum |
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Their "empowerment" training curriculum and methods are a wonderful strength of the organization. | ||
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They have great outreach and leadership of the Empowerment Institute, bringing skill set training to other areas. | ||
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Diverse funding is a strength. Also, the Empowerment Institute is effective both with participants' success and also in earning revenue for the organization. | ||
Comprehensive services |
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They take participants through job readiness, to specific training, to placement with emphasis on livable wage jobs. | ||
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TCR! is a strong voice for helpful systems change. They have championed pay-for-performance contracts and are now trying to pilot an innovative bonding program to support human services. TCR! has also developed its empowerment curriculum to the point where it is a marketable asset. Other nonprofits and schools hire TCR! to train their staff and clients on this effective behavior and lifestyle-changing course. | ||
Emphasis on hard-to-serve populations |
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They work with the very hard-to-serve. | ||
Expert Comments: Areas for Improvement
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Connect with the hardest-to-place clients |
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Their work is driven by clients finding them. It would be good to find ways to connect their efforts to neighborhood and community-based efforts to increase impact in geographies where poverty and disparities continue to persist. | ||
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They need to develop programming for more difficult to place clients, e.g. remedial, GED, habilitation, etc. | ||
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They sometimes annoy other training providers because they are ahead of the curve in trying to institutionalize funding via policy changes that allow for the State and others to pay for outcomes, not inputs. They have geared their tracking to this goal, so they uniquely have data to support their statement that they can "earn" those public dollar payments by not only training people, but by getting paid only after clients get employed and then paid in additional increments after they can document that their clients stay employed. Other providers haven't set up their tracking for that purpose and now realize they are likely to be left behind in the possible legislative funding changes being contemplated in MN in 2011. | ||
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TCR! weeds out many people who can't/won't follow-through on its many expectations. It would be nice if these drop-outs were intentionally connected to other, less-demanding programs that might help them advance their careers. | ||
Widen breadth of training options |
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The breadth of training options are limited. | ||
Focus on long-term education/training |
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They should focus on longer term education/training rather than just work first, and focus on high skill/high wage as longer term goal. | ||
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They could improve their quantitative reporting. There is lots of fluff. | ||
Leadership
Arthur Berman
President & CEO
President & CEO
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