Cara Program
Cara Program
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About this organization
Mission
Cara's mission is to unlock the power and purpose within our communities and ourselves to create real and lasting success. Through its personal and professional skills training and access to employment opportunities Cara serves as a leader of poverty alleviation in Chicago and beyond. Since 1991, we have helped more than 7,500 people find more than 11,500 quality jobs. We help motivated men and women break the barriers of poverty (and often the interrelated challenges of recovery, domestic violence, episodic homelessness, and incarceration) to get and keep good jobs, and more importantly rebuild hope, self-esteem and opportunity for themselves and their families in the process. Learn more at www.carachicago.org
About
Traditional Training & Placement Program is Cara's traditional services which includes a comprehensive range of training and support for motivated individuals affected by poverty and homelessness, including life-skills training, specialized job-skills training, and personalized career placement services.South Side Campus (SSC) is Cara's South Side campus and provides services similar to Cara traditional as well as assistance with income supports and financial literacy. The SSC helps residents establish careers, advance professionally, and accumulate assets through structured training, job placement support, and individual coaching.Employment Retention ensures that participants of Cara have the tools needed for long-term selfsufficiency.Cara offers personal and professional coaching throughout each participant's first year of employment. These services include: regular one-on-one meetings with employed participants about on-the-job successes and challenges; and development of individual long-term goals, including goals related to housing, education, and debt repayment. As a result, over 70% or more of employed Cara participants receiving this support remain in their first job placement for at least one year. In addition to employment retention support, Cara's Career AdvancementProgram supports participants who have not only achieved stability in their personal and professional lives, but who also show an exceptional drive to grow in their careers. Once participants have been employed for at least six months and are established personally and professionally, they may opt in to career advancement services.
Interesting data from their 2020 990 filing
The filing documents outline the non-profit's mission as “The mission of cara is to unlock the power and purpose within our communities and ourselves to achieve real and lasting success.”.
When outlining the tasks it performs, they were referred to as: “To unlock the power & purpose within our communities & ourselves to achieve real & lasting success”.
- The non-profit's reported state of operation is IL as per legal requirements.
- The filing reveals that the address of the non-profit in 2020 is 237 S DesPlaines, Chicago, IL, 60661.
- As of 2020, the non-profit has 170 employees reported on their 990 form.
- Is not a private foundation.
- Expenses are greater than $1,000,000.
- Revenue is greater than $1,000,000.
- Revenue less expenses is -$375,494.
- The organization has 22 independent voting members.
- The organization was formed in 1999.
- The organization pays $7,593,744 in salary, compensation, and benefits to its employees.
- The organization pays $991,058 in fundraising expenses.
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