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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.

Founded in 1986, HELP USA is one of the largest nonprofit builders, developers and operators of transitional and supportive housing with comprehensive on-site human services for homeless individuals in the United States. The organization has helped over 150,000 clients regain their lives since its beginning. HELP USA serves more than 10,000 homeless and low-income individuals each year at over 20 residential programs in nearly 10 communities throughout the U.S. It offers substance abuse and domestic violence treatment, community development, affordable housing and job training services. HELP USA also provides on-site support services for specialized population suffering with domestic violence at each of its nine homeless shelters in the metropolitan New York area. In addition, the organization manages a domestic violence community hotline in Brooklyn with services in English and Spanish, and offers specialized group counseling and employment services for families making the transition from welfare to work. HELP USA is located in New York City.