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Doe Fund, Inc.

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Full Name:	Doe Fund, Inc.
EIN:	13-3412540
Tax Status:	501(c)(3)
Website:	http://www.doe.org
Address:	232 East 84th Street New York, NY 10028
Contact Info:	Maire O'Malley momalley@doe.org 212-628-5207 x4236

About this Nonprofit

Mission:	The Doe Fund's mission is to develop and implement cost-effective, holistic programs that meet the needs of a diverse population working to break the cycles of homelessness, addiction, and criminal recidivism. All of The Doe Fund's programs and innovative business ventures ultimately strive to help homeless and formerly incarcerated individuals achieve permanent self-sufficiency.
Description:	Ready, Willing & Able is The Doe Fund's cornerstone program, which provides paid work opportunities to homeless people in addition to offering them safe and comfortable transitional housing and a comprehensive array of social, vocational and educational services. Ready, Willing & Able helps individuals overcome the root causes of their homelessness by providing the opportunities and resources they need to transform their lives through work and personal responsibility. Ready, Willing & Able targets a population generally considered the "hardest to serve". All participants, or 'trainees' as they are called, are homeless; 95% have histories of substance abuse averaging 17.4 years and 75% have been incarcerated. Despite their difficult pasts, they make incredible efforts to transform their lives by seizing the work and training opportunities offered to them and taking responsibility for their attitudes and behaviors. In order to graduate, participants must be employed, drug-free and permanently housed. Sixty-six percent are still employed, sober and living independently at least one year after graduation. By requiring trainees to work a 35-hour week over the period of the year they are in Ready, Willing & Able, the program instills and reinforces key employment skills such as punctuality, responsibility, accountability, teamwork and efficiency. The expectations are that each trainee will work hard; get along and work well with others; take instruction from supervisors; go home, rest, and do it all again the next day. Over time, this positive daily routine replaces negative ones from their pasts, enabling trainees to live without dependence on drugs or alcohol, while meeting the rigors and challenges of the working world. By bringing trainees into the economic mainstream and creating a supportive, upwardly mobile environment in which they can realize their potential, the program nurtures successful outcomes. Participants in New York City live in one of the Ready, Willing & Able facilities in Brooklyn or Harlem. They are paid $7.40-$8.15 per hour to clean the streets of neighborhoods throughout the city as part of the Community Improvement Project. In New York, crews work on the Upper East and Upper West Sides, midtown and downtown Manhattan, and in areas of Brooklyn, Queens, and the Bronx. From their wages, program participants are required to contribute to the cost of their room and board and maintain a savings account. They voluntarily relinquish all public assistance, except Medicaid, and commit to remaining drug and alcohol free, submitting to random and frequent urine tests throughout their stay in the program.

Mission:

The Doe Fund's mission is to develop and implement cost-effective, holistic programs that meet the needs of a diverse population working to break the cycles of homelessness, addiction, and criminal recidivism. All of The Doe Fund's programs and innovative business ventures ultimately strive to help homeless and formerly incarcerated individuals achieve permanent self-sufficiency.

Description:

Ready, Willing & Able is The Doe Fund's cornerstone program, which provides paid work opportunities to homeless people in addition to offering them safe and comfortable transitional housing and a comprehensive array of social, vocational and educational services. Ready, Willing & Able helps individuals overcome the root causes of their homelessness by providing the opportunities and resources they need to transform their lives through work and personal responsibility.

Ready, Willing & Able targets a population generally considered the "hardest to serve". All participants, or 'trainees' as they are called, are homeless; 95% have histories of substance abuse averaging 17.4 years and 75% have been incarcerated. Despite their difficult pasts, they make incredible efforts to transform their lives by seizing the work and training opportunities offered to them and taking responsibility for their attitudes and behaviors. In order to graduate, participants must be employed, drug-free and permanently housed. Sixty-six percent are still employed, sober and living independently at least one year after graduation.

By requiring trainees to work a 35-hour week over the period of the year they are in Ready, Willing & Able, the program instills and reinforces key employment skills such as punctuality, responsibility, accountability, teamwork and efficiency. The expectations are that each trainee will work hard; get along and work well with others; take instruction from supervisors; go home, rest, and do it all again the next day. Over time, this positive daily routine replaces negative ones from their pasts, enabling trainees to live without dependence on drugs or alcohol, while meeting the rigors and challenges of the working world.

By bringing trainees into the economic mainstream and creating a supportive, upwardly mobile environment in which they can realize their potential, the program nurtures successful outcomes. Participants in New York City live in one of the Ready, Willing & Able facilities in Brooklyn or Harlem. They are paid $7.40-$8.15 per hour to clean the streets of neighborhoods throughout the city as part of the Community Improvement Project. In New York, crews work on the Upper East and Upper West Sides, midtown and downtown Manhattan, and in areas of Brooklyn, Queens, and the Bronx. From their wages, program participants are required to contribute to the cost of their room and board and maintain a savings account. They voluntarily relinquish all public assistance, except Medicaid, and commit to remaining drug and alcohol free, submitting to random and frequent urine tests throughout their stay in the program.

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