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Your Donations Make Work Options Work

Your financial contribution helps us continue operating our job training and support program.

Your Support Helps Change Lives

DUAL PURPOSE

Work Options is addressing two community needs at the same time:

Increasing Social Equity

Our hands-on training helps individuals who have previously faced challenges joining the workforce to overcome the obstacles that stand in the way of sustainable employment, learn employable skills and gain the confidence needed to secure long-term employment in the food service industry.

Alleviating Food Insecurity

Since the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, Work Options students have been preparing nutritious meals to help alleviate hunger and food insecurity for families and individuals across the Greater Denver area. To date, our students and staff have produced over 300,000 meals for people facing hunger.

Sustainable Employment

Work Options provides industry-focused job training for the culinary sector, a sector that provides stable, flexible employment. Most graduates go on to work in commercial kitchens where they are able to gain longer lasting stability and move up the career ladder quickly.

Social Enterprise

Work Options operates two social enterprise businesses. These businesses help to ensure we are able to continue providing our students with hands-on culinary skills practice and they also help us to generate revenue to offset the cost of our programming.

Partnerships

Work Options partners with both other nonprofits and governmental agencies to co-support our students. This means, we are not duplicating services and can focus our attention on helping students to learn the skills they need to get a job and stay employed.

Success

Work Options is effectively helping graduates to obtain employment and to stay employed. 75% of Work Options’ graduates stayed employed for over a year. Nationally, the job retention rate is around 25%.

Volunteer

with Work Options

Work Options assesses each volunteer’s unique skills and interests in order to maximize impact.

Volunteers help with many aspects of our work, including:

Resume & Interview Prep with students
Assisting students with Job Search
Teaching classes such as Kitchen Math
Planning and execution of fundraising events
Assisting students and chefs in the kitchen
Teaching and demonstrating specific culinary skills

If you are interested in volunteering with Work Options, please email us:

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