Safer Foundation
Safer Foundation
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About this organization
Mission
Safer Foundation, a nonprofit social impact organization based in Chicago, Illinois, was founded in 1972. Its mission is to reduce recidivism by supporting, through a full spectrum of services, the efforts of people with arrest and conviction records to become employed, law-abiding members of the community. If people with records are provided with direct service support focused on job preparedness and placement, and are also linked to other critical supportive services their reentry challenges will be addressed and, as a result, their likelihood to recidivate (return to prison) will be reduced. Safer's evidence-based programs are geared toward addressing barriers that impede employment and providing services that support clients' abilities to successfully acclimate into society.
About
Employment services in Illinois and Iowa - programs are designed to prepare people with criminal backgrounds for job opportunities by providing job preparedness, job referral and placement and retention services. Clients participating in the job-readiness program receive training in workplace etiquette, how to complete job applications, develop a resume and prepare for job interviews. Mock interviews are conducted during the week-long training. Individual counseling, case management and mentoring as well as group sessions focus on needs assessment and the development of both long and short range employment goals and the steps necessary to achieve those goals. Group sessions focus on a variety of topics including money management, health awareness, careers and life skills improvement. Safer's employment services division provides more than 300 employers with recruitment assistance, logistic support and education re: tax and bonding incentives. Each year over 5,100 clients are served by safer's workforce services. More than 3,000 clients secured subsidized and private sector employment. More than ninety-nine percent of clients rated safer's services as satisfactory or very satisfactory. Sdsc The safer demand skills collaborative (sdsc) is an employer-driven initiative of public and private partners working to get companies the skilled workers they need to meet in-demand occupations. It is a supply chain strategy that allows safer to build a pipeline of well-qualified individuals to fill employer gaps based upon labor market information (lmi). Moreover, it allows safer foundation to bring people with arrest and conviction records into the workforce with career ladder employment and fully into the economic mainstream of society. Our sdsc pathways include: healthcare, advanced manufacturing, tdl, construction, automotive technology, hospitality and information technology. Apprenticeship programs Safer foundation utilizes a variety of strategies to train people with arrest and conviction records for positions that can fuel a companies' growth and success. Our approach to building talent pipelines includes work-based learning programs. Our pre-apprenticeship and apprenticeship programs are designed to bring underrepresented populations into apprenticeship programs in the skilled trades. These programs integrate our proven client services employment model (case management, wrap-around services, jrt and workforce development) and our basic skills education with industry recognized construction and construction-related curriculum and on-the-job training through our reconstruction technology partners division. Current areas of focus include carpentry, electrical, solar panel installation. Violence reduction programs Safer foundation is a social impact organization. We believe that rebuilding personal economic security through work and meaningful employment is a path to eliminate violence in our communities and rebuild vital and human and social capital. Our work intentionally seeks to engage individuals in positive, affirming, meaningful pathways to economic security, freedom from substance abuse, and other influences that can lead to violence as a by-product of hopelessness and despair. Our violence reduction programs include: in-demand skills training, cognitive behavioral interventions, substance abuse treatment, transitional jobs employment, and case management. We partner with a diverse set of partners to carry out this work. Representative collaborations include: hospitals, university research centers, occupational training partners, community and faith-based institutions and governmental entities (criminal justice system, city and county government, etc.).
Interesting data from their 2019 990 filing
The filing specifies the mission of the non-profit as “To support, through a full spectrum of services, the efforts of people with arrest and conviction records to become employed, law-abiding members of the community, and as a result, reduce recidivism.”.
When explaining its duties, they were described as: “Employment preparation and placement for persons with arrest and conviction records.”.
- The state in which the non-profit is authorized to operate legally is IL.
- According to the filing, the address of the non-profit for the year 2019 is 571 WEST JACKSON, CHICAGO, IL, 60661.
- The non-profit has reported 698 employees on their form for the year 2019.
- Does not operate a hospital.
- Does not operate a school.
- Does not collect art.
- Does not provide credit counseling.
- Does not have foreign activities.
- Is not a donor-advised fund.
- Is not a private foundation.
- Expenses are greater than $1,000,000.
- Revenue is greater than $1,000,000.
- Revenue less expenses is -$161,022.
- The CEO compensation strategy within the organization is determined through a thorough evaluation and endorsement by an independent source.
- The organization has a written policy that describes how long it will retain documents.
- The organization has 19 independent voting members.
- The organization was formed in 1972.
- The organization has a written policy that addresses conflicts of interest.
- The organization is required to file Schedule J.
- The organization is required to file Schedule O.
- The organization pays $17,563,161 in salary, compensation, and benefits to its employees.
- The organization pays $309,723 in fundraising expenses.
- The organization provides Form 990 to its governing body.
- The organization has minutes of its meetings.
- The organization has a written whistleblower policy.
- The organization has fundraising events.
- The organization's financial statements were reviewed by an accountant.