Welcome to the Community Tool Box (CTB), we’re glad you stopped by. That’s an interesting question, and to answer, in part, yes, we offer advice to anyone about community building and development no matter where they are in the world, in fact many of the examples found in the CTB are provided by organizations such as your friend’s; we are truly global in our scope and reach. To the second part of your question, helping with contracts, is, sorry to say, outside our purview. What we do have in the CTB are examples from organizations which provide job training but not necessarily about contract work in the United States. While the examples I offer here are not wholly analogous to the kind of job training and contract work might be providing, they are illustrative and might prove useful. Not helpful in securing US contracts I know but perhaps of interest. Please share the links with your friend.
The Jewish Family & Children's Service designed the "Soups and Sweets" culinary training program to provide young adults with special needs an opportunity to gain marketable, transferable food service skills. The goal of the program is to increase paid employment opportunities for individuals with developmental disabilities.
https://ctb.ku.edu/en/community-stories/soups_and_sweets
The Empowerment Group’s Entrepreneurship Program trains low-income entrepreneurs in the skills they need to create sustainable businesses in the city of Philadelphia. The group helps educate individuals on the benefits of community businesses: self-employment, additional jobs for low-income individuals, and increased commercial activity.
https://ctb.ku.edu/en/empowerment-group-philadelphia
The Empowering Girls Through Skills, Knowledge, and Leadership project was implemented to achieve the following objectives:
https://ctb.ku.edu/en/empowering-girls-knowledge-leadership
Vocational Skills Training for People Affected by HIV / AIDS has been working closely with a Japanese church located in Mbarara District to improve the quality of life for the children in the area by providing vocational skills to the children and widows thereby helping the community reduce poverty, become self-sustaining, and also to start up small, income-generating businesses.
https://ctb.ku.edu/en/annovoc-vocational-training
One last resource which your friend might find useful is found in CTB Chapter 12. Providing Training and Technical Assistance in which they might learn more about how to design and deliver training and technical assistance, not that they need it mind, but it might offer some useful tips of which they have yet to consider. I think the following sections will be of particular use:
Well, I don’t think we were fully able to answer your question, regrettable, but please pass on the CTB resources listed here as your friend might find them useful in some way. With that, on behalf of the CTB I thank you for your question and if you have another question do let us know. Much success to you and your friend, be well, take care. Ask an Advisor
