JobsFirstNYC
Meets Standards
Standards For Charity Accountability
Governance
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Board Oversight
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Board Size
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Board Meetings
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Board Compensation
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Conflict of Interest
Measuring Effectiveness
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Effectiveness Policy
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Effectiveness Report
Finances
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Program Expenses
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Fundraising Expenses
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Accumulating Funds
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Audit Report
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Detailed Expense Breakdown
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Accurate Expense Reporting
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Budget Plan
Fundraising & Info
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Truthful Materials
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Annual Report
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Website Disclosures
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Donor Privacy
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Cause Marketing Disclosures
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Complaints
JobsFirstNYC meets the 20 Standards for Charity Accountability.
Stated Purpose:
JobsFirstNYC was created in 2006, with lead funding from The Clark Foundation, Tiger Foundation and New York City Workforce Funders Group, to serve as a neutral intermediary to address the workforce needs of out-of-school, out-of- work young adults in New York City. Our mission is to create and advance new solutions that break down barriers and transform the systems supporting young adults and their communities in the pursuit of economic mobility. We bring together—effectively and efficiently—all available community, corporate, human, organizational, private, and public resources to connect young adults to the economic life of New York City.
Year, State Incorporated:
2007, NY
PROGRAMS
We build innovative, community-driven partnership networks, city-wide and employer-led
employment networks, and policy-solutions networks, all of which have improved economic
mobility for young adults and the communities they live in. We have a proven record working
across multi-stakeholder systems to reduce the number of out-of-school and out-of-work young
adults and to strengthen the workforce development capacity of nonprofit organizations. We are
focused on four areas:
1) Community: JobsFirstNYC’s community solutions initiatives—called CommunityINC—
are place-based partnerships that seek to advance economic mobility and workforce equity
through a single-system strategy. There are currently five CommunityINC initiatives:
Brownsville Hub Collaborative (Brooklyn), Jerome Avenue Revitalization Collaborative
(JARC) (Bronx), Lower East Side Employment Network (LESEN) (Manhattan), YES Bed
Stuy (Brooklyn), and Youth WINS (Staten Island).
2) Education: Build equitable pathways to post-secondary education and career
opportunities: (1) Bronx Opportunity Network (BON) - A collaborative of nonprofits and
colleges focused on college access and completion; and (2) Transfer to School
Collaborative (T2C) - A collaborative of nonprofits and high schools that seeks to improve
the postsecondary and workforce outcomes of New York City high school students most at
risk of becoming part of the out-of-school, out-of-work population.
3) Work: Identify, design, and advance practices and policies that achieve better outcomes
for workers and employers: (1) Young Adult Sectoral Employment Project (YASEP)
(City-Wide): Established in 2013, YASEP is a first-of-its-kind to test whether sector
strategies, previously proven through research to directly benefit job seekers in terms of
earnings over time, can be adapted to better serve young adults—specifically applied to
organizations serving OSOW young adults and the employers that may hire them; (2)
Young Adult Workforce Initiative focused on expanding the Young Adult Sectoral Project
(YASEP), with a focus on building collaboration across targeted employment sectors by
launching four new Sectoral Employment Networks. The NETWORKS would strengthen
collaboration among sector skills training nonprofits, colleges, and employers to improve
program design and skills training, leverage knowledge and resources, and increase access
to higher-quality jobs.
4) Policy: Use research and lessons learned from our work on the ground to develop new,
innovative policy solutions. For example, Invest in Skills New York - In partnership with the
New York Association for Training and Employment Professionals, JobsFirstNYC is cochairing Invest in Skills NY, a statewide advocacy coalition that aims to increase awarenessof workforce development as economic development and encourage policy reform to meet
the changing demands of the labor market. In its first year, 2018, the coalition secured $175
million of state investment for workforce development and pushed the governor to create the
New York State Office of Workforce Development to build a data-driven workforce system.
As of September 2020, 307 organizations across New York State had received funding for
workforce and economic development programs.
Our achievements are demonstrated through our initiatives which successfully challenge the status quo, develop new models/partnerships that produce better outcomes, increase/leverage resources, and drive a larger discourse that can implicitly and explicitly transform entire systems. We work with more than 160 orgs/institutions across NYC andState. Our partnerships have reconnected 10,237+ OSOW young adults to economic opportunities. Our solutions have collectively raised/leveraged nearly $30M of public/private investment and developed new models for place-based solutions that have been replicated and integrated across the workforce system.
For the year ended June 30, 2023, JobsFirstNYC's program expenses were:
| Program services | $2,122,155 |
| Total Program Expenses | $2,122,155 |
Chief Executive
Alan Momeyer, Board Chairperson
Chair's Profession / Business Affiliation
Not disclosed
Board Size
18
Paid Staff Size
10
Method(s) Used:
Direct mail appeals, Invitations to fund raising events, Grant proposals, Internet
Tax status information not available.
The following information is based on JobsFirstNYC's audited financial statements for the year ended June 30, 2023.
Source of Funds
| Grants - foundations and corporations | $2,559,500 |
| Contract services | $607,921 |
| Employee retention credits | $112,403 |
| Individuals | $26,650 |
| Net realized and unrealized gain on investments | $8,917 |
| Interest and dividends | $2,680 |
| Total Income | $3,318,071 |
Programs: 81% Fundraising: 8% Administrative: 11%
| Total Income | $3,318,071 |
| Total expenses: | $2,615,397 |
| Program expenses | $2,122,155 |
| Fundraising expenses | $208,908 |
| Administrative expenses | $284,334 |
| Other expenses | $0 |
| Income in Excess of Expenses | $702,674 |
| Beginning Net Assets | $2,960,274 |
| Other Changes In Net Assets | $0 |
| Ending Net Assets | $3,662,948 |
| Total Liabilities | $1,216,121 |
| Total Assets | $4,879,069 |
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Report completed by:
BBB Foundation of Metropolitan New York