by Helen Young Hayes | Apr 12, 2020 | Activate's Perspective, Activate's Results, News and Features
The COVID-19 pandemic highlights the importance of creating economic stability. To date, none of Activate’s placements have been laid off. In their previous low-wage jobs, they likely would have been among the first workers to experience unemployment. The current crisis disproportionately impacts our nation’s most vulnerable low-income citizens; 40% of Americans cannot weather a $400 financial emergency. In addition to providing stable, career-path jobs, Activate’s placements have learned to save thousands of dollars from their salaries and are well-prepared to weather a crisis.
by Activate Workforce Solutions | Sep 3, 2019 | Activate's Perspective, News and Features, Press
Our Founder/CEO Helen Young Hayes wrote about the importance of luring and keeping front-line employees in an article published in ColoradoBiz Magazine, entitled, How to Retain Front-Line Employees.
by Activate Workforce Solutions | Jul 19, 2019 | Activate's Perspective, News and Features, Press
Our Founder/CEO Helen Young Hayes wrote about the importance of luring and keeping front-line employees in an article published in ColoradoBiz Magazine, entitled, Recruiting and Retaining Front Line Employees.
by Helen Young Hayes | Mar 6, 2018 | Activate's Perspective
Recently, we successfully placed a young single mom, “Maria”, in her first full-time professional job making $17 an hour, or over $35,000 a year. That’s the good news. The bad news is that we successfully placed a young single mom in her first full-time professional job making over $35,000 a year…
by Activate Workforce Solutions | Aug 31, 2017 | Activate's Perspective
This Labor Day weekend, we celebrate work, the meaning of work, the promise of work, the potential of work. We celebrate workers who come from diverse backgrounds and who transform themselves and their colleagues through the way that they work. We celebrate employers who unlock the potential for dignity and self-sufficiency through the jobs they provide. We invite the whole workforce system to celebrate with us and to live out a lofty vision of work and calling…
