TE Pathway News, September  2018
A TOAST TO NEW TOMORROWS


Each year, we host an annual event to celebrate the year, the successes of our participants, and raise money to continue to connect people to careers in Greater Cleveland. There are many ways to show your support! We hope you will join us to toast new tomorrows.  

JOIN US AT THE EVENT!

Join us for our 13th annual event, A Toast to New Tomorrows, on Friday, September 21, 2018. We have an exciting evening planned at The Madison to toast to new tomorrows for our participants and our work to connect people to careers.
A TOAST TO A MAJOR LEAGUE CITY RAFFLE

Cleveland has three great teams - we are toasting our Cavaliers, Indians, and Browns for other year of exciting games and playoff hopes!

This year, our raffle is a season package for TWO people for all THREE Major League teams! Enter to win:
  • Cavaliers Half season pass (section 131) - 44 games!
  • Indians Quarter season pass (lower reserved) - 20 games!
  • Browns 3 Game Flex Plan with tickets to the Ravens, Falcons, and Bengals.
Raffle tickets are just $50 for these 67 major league games.  On sale now through September 21st.  Raffle drawing will be on Facebook Live at the Toast to New Tomorrows celebration on Friday, September 21st at The Madison. You do not have to be present to win.

BLOOM APPETIZER TO THE MAIN COURSE

Toast Cleveland Chefs and get access to four not-to-be-missed culinary experiences now on auction through Sept 20th! Attend a private dinner with a Food Network's Chopped champion; tour a local winery; get an insider preview of a new Akron eatery; or go fishing with a chef! More information at bloombakery.com  

MAKING SENSE OF SKILLS BASED HIRING

Towards Employment works to connect people to good jobs, and companies with workers with the right skills.  But what are the right skills and how do you assess them?  What kinds of assessments measure softskills vs technical skills?  Which ones lead to a credential and what does that communicate to an employer about a candidate's fit for an open position?  TE and partners helped pilot a skills-based hiring initiative that provided access to an assessment resulting in skill scores that could then be matched with the requirements of open jobs. This pilot tested one of many skills-based assessments. 

Grace Heffernan, senior project manager, draws on our experience with TalentNEO  and  makes sense of the variety of skills-based assessments in her recent blog.  

WE CHOOSE EXTRAORDINARY! 

This February, The Fund for Our Economic Future published  Two Tomorrows  and asked us all to make a choice for our future. 

Do we want Northeast Ohio's future to be just average ... or extraordinary?  

At Towards Employment, we emphatically choose EXTRAORDINARY, and are vigorously working to refine our strategy and programming to ensure we are maximizing our contribution to achieving this outcome.


Join The Fund for Our Economic Future on Friday, September 7th for a conversation before the Friday Forum at The City Club about the Two Tomorrows Report. Register for the conversation here. 

TE ALUMNI NETWORK

This past month, we launched Towards Employment's Alumni Network. On Saturday, August 18, 50 graduates and friends showed up to learn about the potential of the network. We also acknowledged and celebrated Bloom staff members  moving on to new employment opportunities! 

10 people pledged to vote this coming November, one person registered to vote when he learned that his felony did not preclude him from voting in Ohio, and we distributed many items from our clothing closet.  The highlight was the raffling off of tickets to a pre-season Brown's game, tickets donated by the Cleveland Browns. 

The TE Alumni Network has several goals: 
  • new participant referral
  • sharing community resources and success stories
  • and encouraging graduates to take advantage of advancement opportunities and new programming at TE. 
Next up is an alumni newsletter that will be released this month. Feedback from graduates and staff will make this network extra special. For more information, contact Bishara Addison at  [email protected]

BLOOM IS OUT & ABOUT

Find Bloom out in the community this Fall. 

Bloom is supplying treats for the MidTown Tech Hive co-working space. Come check out their grand opening Sept 14th.

Lock 15 opened in Akron in August! Bloom is using s pent grain from their brewery to mill and bake bread and pretzels just for them. 

Find us at the Cleveland Flea on Sept 8th. We will have lots of treats for your to enjoy!

Support Bloom and Feel Good during our summer challenge. Your support goes toward second chances for Clevelanders. 

Towards Employment | 216.696.5750 | [email protected] | towardsemployment.org
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