Opportunities For All

Center for Employment Opportunities, headquartered in New York City, offers job readiness and placement services to men and women returning from prison to New York City and persons under community supervision. Its work experience program, the Neighborhood Work Project, provides immediate, paid, short-term employment and serves as an employment lab, preparing participants with the essential skills to rejoin the work force and restart their lives. More than 50 percent of training graduates are placed in permanent jobs within three months. Center for Employment Opportunities has provided employment to thousands of its graduates in full-time positions with more than 150 area companies and organizations.

HistoryWith offices in New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago and a mobile National Outreach Project, we have provided over 61,000 hours of individual and group career counseling, with a dollar value of over $8 million, and awarded $5 million in educational and entrepreneurial support. Outside of the organization's 6,200 active clients, we have helped thousands of dancers take their first steps in discovering rewarding second careers.SpecialtiesCareer Transition For Dancers is a nonprofit organization that enables dancers to define their career possibilities and develop the skills necessary to excel in a variety of disciplines.