Just heard your story on 89.3 KPCC and was wondering if you were doing any hiring. I am in need of a job and I am pretty passionate about the recycling of e-waste.

Cheers!

THANK YOU….you give me hope…my son who was arrested at the age of 17 years old has hope that when he gets out with an education he maybe able to find employment. He will be in for 15 years for armed robbery. I’m praying he will get out sooner. Makes me sad to know my son has to serve that length of time for his involvement of the crime. I’m not saying he shouldn’t be held accountable but 15 years doesn’t match the crime. This is armed robbery not murder!


Just wanted to share…


a worried MOM…

My name is Briana McGeough, and I am the CEO of Buy with Heart, which aims to be an online marketplace for social enterprise products and services. It will function similarly to Amazon, enabling consumers to search for the products they want and place orders with the knowledge that every purchase benefits a social cause. Buy with Heart provides social enterprises access to a base of consumers that are interested in making socially responsible purchases. We would be very interested in featuring your venture and providing you the opportunity to sell products and services on the site. For more information, please visit www.buywithheart.org (which currently serves as a directory that provides visibility for social ventures, but does not yet provide e-commerce functionality.)

Hi there,


Isadore Recycling was recently recommended as an ideal venture for the upcoming Village Capital/VentureWell (www.vilcapventurewell.org) business accelerator program in Boston. This recommendation speaks volumes about your work thus far and your company’s potential, so I just wanted to personally connect with you and encourage you to apply to the program. You can fill out the application (due: October 29th) on the website.


Just to give you a bit more background, Village Capital has run 15 programs in 6 countries over the past 3 years and has extended continual support to over 250 entrepreneurs. In addition, Village Capital participants have raised over $20 million, created over 7,500 jobs, and served over 4 million customers worldwide.


VentureWell is a program out of NCIIA, which helps support innovations coming out of universities.


The upcoming Village Capital/VentureWell program will run from November 29th until March 10th, and is focusing on clean tech and mobile IT companies like yours.


The program will consist of 3 three-day workshops at the beginning, middle and end of the program, closing with a venture forum. In between these sessions, there will be weekly assignments where groups work together virtually.


If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me and/or the program manager, Andrew Foote (andrew@vilcap.com). Also, please email one of us as soon as you decide to apply so that we can keep our eye out for your application. We are eager to read it.


Again, I highly encourage you to apply to the Village Capital/VentureWell program. This is a great opportunity to take you and your company to the next level.


All the best,

Lily

I am the Employment Specialist for Social Vocational Services (SVS) serving the Los Angeles, Culver City, Lawndale, Pasadena, and their surrounding cities. At SVS, we put people with developmental disabilities to work. We partner with area businesses to enhance their productivity by providing them with motivated, trained, and proficient workers who just happened to have some type of developmental disability.

I was hoping that you could utilize our clients in your recycling center to sort, crush, fold, or for general maintenance and facility upkeep. Our clients are unbelievable workers and can perform an array of tasks if just given the chance. We currently have clients that are working and exceling in areas such as: accounting, filing, customer service, food preparation, janitorial, mail center operations, data entry, retail, landscaping and a host of other industries. Our clients work for companies such as Toyota, Sony, Team One, Lexus, Chili’s, Wal-Mart, Nissan, Marriott, and several governmental entities such as- the City of West Hollywood, City of Palos Verdes, City of La Puente, City of Redondo Beach, and we would love to include your business.

SVS provides the employee training and a job coach for our worker’s, provides Worker’s Compensation and Liability insurance, and we handle all personnel and payroll issues at NO cost to the employer. There are several ways you can employ our clients and I would love to meet with you to further discuss your options and how you may be eligible to receive Work Opportunity Tax Credit (WOTC) simply by giving a person the opportunity to work.

SVS is NOT a charity and we receive no payment from our clients. SVS is a vendor of the Department of Rehabilitation and the Department of Developmental Services and we work jointly to ensure that people with disabilities are afforded the opportunity to live meaningful, productive lives while making an invaluable contribution to society and their communities. Below, I have attached a link for a video of one of our satisfied employer’s. Please take some time to review:

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Once again, I would love to further discuss the possibilities of hiring our clients and you joining our team of satisfied employers. Just the opportunity to work will give them a big boost of confidence they need. If you need additional information or would like to set up a meeting to discuss our services further, I can be reached at (310) 970-7616 or via e-mail at: vlathern@svsinc.org. I look forward to hearing from you in the near future.

Let our client’s work with and for you!!!