Announcing to Submitting Resumes for Qualifying resident in Ward 1

Requesting Resumes for qualifying resident in Ward One :

Offering Scholarship Grants up to $2000

www.careers@cwdscholarships.org

202 510-6352

Community Workforce Development Scholarship Fund (CWD) and the important role it will play in supporting D.C. Ward 1 residents with educational and workforce opportunities. It (CWDF) will provide information to anyone in Ward 1 interested in Scholarships covered In the McMillan Advisory Group (MAG) Community Benefits Agreement. The Fund will enhance participants in Ward 1 to apply and spread the word for Ward One Scholarships. The program along with The Community Foundation National Capital Region, Trinity University and others around Universities in partnership;

The purpose is for Scholarships grants for community residence to pursue higher education, training or job related certification, encouraging legacy career path, such as civil engineering, landscaping architecture, or on-site job in the field medical field with a professional preference of Ward 1 and Ward 5 residents.

 

This offering is a most unique opportunity for Submitting Resumes in WARD 1 residents; around in one of the following industries: Information Technology, Health Care, or a participant will be eligible to receive up to a $2000 scholarship

The program along with Community Foundation National Capital Region, Trinity University and other around the in the Community; Universities and Developers in partnership:

In addition to the resident criteria, a participant must:

1. Possess a High School Diploma /GED or Higher ;
2. 18 years of age and up;
3. Unemployed or Underemployed;
4. US Citizen

Please assist us in getting this information to your Ward One Community.. Please contact for additional information. We can be reached at :

www.careers@cwdscholarships.org ; Contact Tony Norman 202 510-6352

Community Workforce Development Scholarship Fund (CWD

The Program:  has several components;

The CWDSF does not conduct or contract for training per se, but rather relies on partnerships with the many and varied workforce development trainers in the region. It recruits participants for their often-undersubscribed programs, provides intense from pre-training preparation through post-training mentoring in the job market and on the job. It provides a scholarship to the participants.

A 501(c)3, the CWDSF, was created as a non-profit corporation. Its Board created a committee involving its own members, university and the developers.

The CWDSF has been a critical factor in the success of local residents, some of whom are now able to afford to stay in the neighborhood despite the rising rents and home prices throughout the neighborhoods around the Ward 1 area. The organizations have supported the successful training and certification of skilled workers in HVAC, other construction trades, information technology, and health professions. The CWDSF has worked with these individuals every step of the way by providing them with the services. The mentoring through case management and the incentive of a scholarship have been critical components to their success.

The words of some of the participants are testimonials to the success of this new model of workforce development:

• The program provided me with the training that I needed in order to become successful–going to class and participating in the lessons and completing the assignments, along with hands on experience. All of this was a great help for my success.
• It is always great to be a part of a network of individuals whom you can dialog with, and help you in the area of work you are interested in.
• It’s a great program for the community.
• I recommend the program highly. I used to think you need to be accepted into a college and spend 2-4 years to learn. This is a great place to learn, get a certification and actually start a career.
• Yes, I would recommend this program to others because if it helped me I believe it can help others because when I came into the program I had little knowledge of computers/IT.    
• there are great opportunities in the Computer Industry, and Program is excellent in preparing students to take advantage of these opportunities.
• They have more programs to offer and the program overall does help people receive skills and employment.
• Yes I would recommend the program to other people in the community. It’s extremely helpful in personal training and job placements.
• I say keep up the great work, people need the helping hand. There are those like me out there that keep pushing for greatness, actively seeking and working towards a better way. Continue to work with them so they can do the same for others.

The program demonstrates the strength of the new model for enhancing workforce development and reducing the impacts of gentrification.

Marketing the CWDSF Program

The CWDSF determined at the beginning that there was a strong need for an enhanced marketing strategy to achieve sustainability for the program and to ensure ongoing recruitment of participants. The goal of this marketing strategy is to raise additional funds for the program from developers, local government, and other prospective funders. Website development to encourage such support continued throughout.

Neighborhoods:

Real estate developers nationwide have entered low-income communities around the country seeking to achieve the highest best use of urban land as dictated by market forces. By following the requirements and opportunities of the market system, developers have at times clashed with the residents of the communities they enter. One undesirable impact from the standpoint of longstanding residents is the escalation of housing prices and rental payments throughout a community as new, modern, market rate properties come on stream. In such a setting, long-standing residents and families may find themselves displaced due to these economic realities and feel compelled to leave communities to which they have been attached, sometimes for generations.

Community Workforce Development Scholarship Program:

Wise community leaders know that real estate development is vulnerable to community interventions in regulatory and legal proceedings. Such leaders will often insist that developers make substantial concessions to the interests of existing residents with the implicit (or explicit) threat of such interventions. Negotiations between a developer and community stakeholders may then lead to a Community Benefits Agreement (CBA), which can require the developer to make concessions to the community such as providing units of affordable housing, some local infrastructure improvements, or allowing community members access to some amenities in the newly developed properties structures. Such CBAs can provide some relief from the impact of gentrification, but these may be modest and short term.

Accomplishments: 

• The CWDSF maintained its community-based Board consistently throughout the project. Board members are well known in the community and command respect.
• The CWDSF successfully produced a new model of workforce development aimed at mitigating displacement effects of gentrification in a target neighborhood. The model succeeded in preparing many residents in the target area for living-wage jobs that will give them the opportunity to stay in their neighborhood rather than be displaced by rising housing costs..

The Community Workforce Development Scholarship Fund (CWDSF)

The CWDSF, a Black‐led and Black‐staffed community‐based organization, is committed to racial equity and is operationalizing it through its anti‐displacement programming to offset the ill effects of gentrification pressures in the Ward One, Shaw/LeDroit/Pleasant Plains neighborhoods in Northwest D.C. It does this through advocacy and direct service. Incorporated as a 501(c)3 in 2018, it features a unique partnership on its committee which includes several civic association leaders, . Much more than a “scholarship fund”, it pro‐actively recruits local residents in danger of displacement, helps them enroll in training, provides intensive case management of all participants to help keep them enrolled when life’s challenges might otherwise lead to their dropping out .

The success of the program is reflected in the number of successful completions and scholarship awards and the employment in living wage jobs by participants. The program has the experience over the three years, had reported and evaluated against the project’s logic model.

The central mission of the CWDSF has been to enable residents who live in a rapidly gentrifying community to have the choice to stay in the neighborhood by obtaining skilled employment and living wages. With such economic empowerment, they would be able to afford housing costs that otherwise might be out of reach. Maintaining economic diversity in the community contributes to its attractiveness to all and avoids some of the dislocations that have historically occurred in many neighborhoods in D.C. and throughout the U.S.

The Board members for the CWDSF advocate for additional support for enhanced workforce development and displacement‐resistance programming for the endangered and underserved residents at ANC meetings, City Council hearings and one‐on‐ones, and in the Mayor’s office. The CWDSF mobilizes community support for these advocacy efforts, which are aimed at creating local policy change/system reform to benefit predominately Black people in danger of displacement in Wards 1 .

The CWDSF will use finalize and upgrade its website to improve its advocacy for change at all levels of government in D.C., including at the Department of Employment Services as well as the legislative and executive leadership of the city. It will responsibilities for advocating for change in the workforce development system in the city can be bolstered, while also strengthening its work with individuals brought into the programs.

To date, our novel model of anti‐displacement activity through enhanced workforce development is under consideration by ANC Commissioners in Wards 1 and City Council members, and the Deputy Mayors for Health and Human Services and Planning and Economic Development. By continuing to show success in this model, and using an upgraded website, we will bolster our case .