Employment Resources An increasing number of businesses and organizations are actively recruiting justice-impacted employees, but we’re always looking for more! If you’d like to submit your ideas for this page, please email them to [email protected] We’ll continue to update this page regularly. Useful Resources for Your Job Search Formerly Incarcerated College Graduates Network How do I start over after incarceration? 10 tips for finding a job (National Council on Aging) Reentry and employment resources for justice-involved individuals (U.S. Library of Congress research guide) The Way Out connects justice-impacted job-seekers with employers committed to hiring them! U.S. Department of Labor Career One Stop Career & Support Resources The following websites provide various job-seeking and career-planning resources to justice-impacted employees. Concordance (Nationwide) Honest Jobs (Nationwide) Indeed (Nationwide) - Tip: Include the phrase “fair chance” in your search terms. Indeed offers employers the option of declaring themselves “fair-chance” hirers, which means they accept (and sometimes actively seek) applications from justice-impacted people. Jails to Jobs (Nationwide) Jobs for Returning Citizens (Nationwide) - This is a project of Jobs for Humanity. Resilient Professional Community (Nationwide) - Join the program’s flagship career-focused mentoring program! TimeDone (Nationwide) Upper Peninsula Michigan Works! (UP Michigan) - This resource also provides specialized career services for reentering citizens. Paid Apprenticeship & Training Opportunities Apprenticeships offer the opportunity to earn money while gaining skills for personally and financially rewarding careers. Drexel University cybersecurity support technician and certified medical assistant apprenticeships (Philadelphia, PA) Garden Time paid training in tree service and other plant-based industries (Providence, RI) GlaxoSmithKline biomedical & pharmaceutical apprenticeships (Primarily East Coast) LaunchCode coding apprenticeships Monell Science Apprenticeship Program in biomedical sciences and medicine (Greater Philadelphia, PA/Camden, NJ region) Per Scholas connects learners with free local tech training (Nationwide) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory apprenticeships in fusion energy and engineering (Princeton, NJ) Refoundry training in repurposing reclaimed materials into home furnishing (Brooklyn, NY) Job Boards The following job boards advertise employers who recruit and support justice-impacted job-seekers. Building Hope West Alabama (Alabama) Center for Employment Opportunities (Nationwide) Civil Survival (Nationwide) Honest Jobs (Nationwide) NAACP’s One Million Jobs Campaign (Nationwide) Uplift Northwest (Seattle, WA) Employers These companies and organizations actively recruit and hire justice-impacted talent. Alabama ACLU of Alabama (Montgomery) Jobs to Move America (Remote; residents of Birmingham preferred) Southern Poverty Law Center (Montgomery) Alaska E & E Foods, Inc. (Kenai, Egegik) Arizona ACLU of Arizona (Phoenix) Sonoran Prevention Works (Tempe & statewide) United Farm Workers Foundation (Phoenix) Vanir Construction Management, Inc. (Phoenix) California ACLU of California, San Diego ACLU of Northern California (San Francisco) ACLU of Southern California (Los Angeles) A New Way of Life (Los Angeles) Access Support Network (San Luis Obispo, Salinas) Al Otro Lado (San Ysidro) Alliance for Safety & Justice (Oakland) Anti-Defamation League (Los Angeles, San Francisco) Anti-Recidivism Coalition (Los Angeles & Sacramento) Bay Area Legal Aid (Oakland, San Francisco, Richmond) California Wellness Foundation (Los Angeles & Oakland) Californians United for a Responsible Budget (Los Angeles) Catalyst California (Los Angeles, Sacramento) Causa Justa/Just Cause (Oakland & San Francisco) Center for Employment Opportunities (Oakland, Fresno, San Jose, Solano, San Diego, Los Angeles, Inland Empire) Checkr (San Francisco) Coleman Advocates for Children & Youth (San Francisco) Creating Restorative Opportunities & Programs (Oakland) CreaTV San Jose (San Jose) Defy Ventures (Los Angeles, San Francisco) Dolores Street Community Services (San Francisco) Drug Policy Alliance (San Francisco Bay Area) Ella Baker Center for Human Rights (Oakland) Essie Justice Group (Oakland & Los Angeles) Formerly Incarcerated, Convicted People & Families Movement (Los Angeles) Fresh Lifelines for Youth (Throughout state) Friends Outside (Stockton) FWD.us (Oakland, Los Angeles) Global Fund for Women (San Francisco) Green Arrow Co-Lab (Los Angeles) HIV Education and Prevention Project (Oakland) Human Rights Watch (Palo Alto) Impact Justice (Fresno County, Los Angeles, Oakland) Insight Garden Program (Throughout state) Jobs to Move America (Remote; residents of Los Angeles preferred) Just Detention International (Los Angeles) Lambda Legal (Los Angeles) Legal Services for Prisoners with Children (Oakland) MDRC (Oakland, Los Angeles) Mt. Tamalpais College (San Rafael) Napa County Resource Conservation District (Napa) National Center for Lesbian Rights (San Francisco) Oakland Rising (Oakland) Partners for Justice (Santa Cruz, East Los Angeles, Compton, San Diego, Fremont) People Assisting the Homeless/PATH (Los Angeles) Public Justice (Oakland) Recidivism (San Francisco) Rubicon Programs (Throughout state) Second Chance (San Diego) Sierra Club (Oakland, San Bernardino; also remote) Tides (San Francisco, also remote) UnCommon Law (Oakland) United Farm Workers Foundation (Throughout state) University of California, Berkeley Vanir Construction Management, Inc. (Sacramento, Los Angeles, Irvine, San Bernardino, San Diego, Oakland, San Francisco, San Jose, Walnut Creek, Fresno, San Luis Obispo) Vera Institute of Justice (Los Angeles) Visa (San Francisco, Foster City) Vox Media (Los Angeles) Women’s Foundation California (Remote within state) Worker Education & Resource Center, Inc. (Los Angeles County) Young Women’s Freedom Center (Contra Costa County, Los Angeles, Oakland, San Francisco, Santa Clara County) Youth Justice Coalition (Los Angeles) Colorado ACLU of Colorado (Denver) Bridges of Colorado (statewide) Center for Employment Opportunities (Denver) Checkr (Denver) Motus Theater (Boulder) R&R Head Labs (Denver) Vanir Construction Management, Inc. (Denver, Fort Collins) Violence Free Colorado (Remote in state) Visa (Highlands Ranch, Denver) Connecticut ACLU of Connecticut (Hartford) Anti-Defamation League (Bridgeport) Collaborative Center for Justice (Hartford) Connecticut Division of Public Defender Services (Throughout state) EMERGE Connecticut, Inc. (New Haven) University of Connecticut Health (Throughout state) Delaware ACLU of Delaware (Wilmington) Partners for Justice (Dover) Florida ACLU of Florida (Miami) Anti-Defamation League (Boca Raton) Aventiv Technologies (Bristol, Crestview, Lake Butler, Polk City) Johns Hopkins University - All Children’s Hospital (St. Petersburg) Partners for Justice (Miami) Sierra Club (Remote within state) Visa (Miami) Georgia Anti-Defamation League (Atlanta) Aventiv Technologies (Forsyth) Center for Employment Opportunities (Atlanta) Lambda Legal (Atlanta) RTI International (Atlanta) Southern Center for Human Rights (Atlanta) Southern Poverty Law Center (Atlanta) Visa (Atlanta) Hawaii University of Hawaii (Mānoa, Hilo, West O’ahu, Honolulu, Kapi’olani, Kaua’i, Leeward, Maui, Windward) Illinois Access Living of Metropolitan Chicago ACLU of Illinois (Chicago) Anti-Defamation League (Chicago) Believers Bail Out (Chicago) Chicago Appleseed Center for Fair Courts (Chicago) Defy Ventures (Chicago) Facing History & Ourselves (Chicago) Jobs to Move America (Remote; residents of Chicago preferred) Just Roots Chicago (Sauk Village) Lambda Legal (Chicago) MacArthur Justice Center (Chicago) Safer Foundation (Chicago) Sierra Club (Springfield, Ingleside) Southsiders Organized for Unity & Liberation (SOUL; Chicago) Vanir Construction Management, Inc. (Chicago) Visa (Chicago) Vox Media (Chicago) Iowa ACLU of Iowa (Des Moines) Partners for Justice (Cedar Rapids) Kansas ACLU of Kansas (Mission, Overland Park) Partners for Justice (Lawrence) Kentucky ACLU of Kentucky (Louisville) Vital Strategies (Frankfurt) Louisiana ACLU of Louisiana (New Orleans) Anti-Defamation League (New Orleans) Aventiv Technologies (New Orleans) Center for Employment Opportunities (New Orleans) Foundation for Louisiana (Remote within state) Innocence Project New Orleans Louisiana Fair Housing Action Center (New Orleans) MacArthur Justice Center (New Orleans) Partners for Justice (New Orleans) Vanir Construction Management, Inc. (New Orleans) Vera Institute of Justice (New Orleans) Voice of the Experienced/VOTE (New Orleans, Baton Rouge) Maine Maine Votes/Maine Voices Network (Portland) Maryland ACLU of Maryland (Baltimore) Chris Wilson Foundation (Baltimore) Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Columbia) Progressive Maryland (Baltimore, Annapolis, Eastern Shore, Largo, Montgomery County, Capitol Heights) Massachusetts ACLU of Massachusetts (Boston) Anti-Defamation League (Boston) Aventiv Technologies (Middleton) Facing History & Ourselves (Boston) Greater Boston Legal Services (Boston) Law Enforcement Action Partnership (Medford) Massachusetts Bail Fund (Boston) Material Aid & Advocacy Program (Cambridge) New England Innocence Project (Cambridge) Physicians for Human Rights (Boston) Prisoners’ Legal Services of Massachusetts (Boston) Wash Cycle Laundry (Lynn) Michigan ACLU of Michigan (Detroit) Center for Employment Opportunities (Detroit, Pontiac) Kalamazoo Justice Hub (Kalamazoo) Michigan State Appellate Defender Office & Criminal Defense Resource Center (Detroit, Lansing) Neighborhood Defender Service (Detroit) Partners for Justice (Ann Arbor) Sierra Club (Remote within state) United Farm Workers Foundation (Allegan, Kalamazoo, Kent City, West Olive, Van Buren Charter Twp., Lansing) Minnesota ACLU of Minnesota (Minneapolis) Anti-Defamation League (Minneapolis) Centro de Trabajadores Unidos En Lucha (Minneapolis/Twin Cities) Community Power (Minneapolis) Great North Innocence Project (Minneapolis) Minnesota Environmental Justice Table (Minneapolis) Mississippi ACLU of Mississippi (Jackson) MacArthur Justice Center @ University of Mississippi School of Law (University) Southern Poverty Law Center (Jackson) Missouri ACLU of Missouri (St. Louis) Anti-Defamation League (St. Louis) Aventiv Technologies (St. Joseph) MacArthur Justice Center (St. Louis) Montana ACLU of Montana (Missoula) Partners for Justice (Pablo) Nevada ACLU of Nevada (North Las Vegas) Battle Born Progress/Institute for a Progressive Nevada (Remote within state) New Jersey ACLU of New Jersey (Newark) Center for Justice Innovation (Northern NJ) Domestic Abuse & Sexual Assault Crisis Center of Warren County (Washington) Jobs to Move America (Remote; residents of NJ preferred) Newark Community Street Team (Newark) Vital Strategies (Trenton) New Mexico ACLU of New Mexico (Albuquerque) Vital Strategies (Santa Fe) New York ACLU of New York (NYC) Amnesty International (NYC) Anti-Defamation League (NYC) Appellate Advocates (NYC) Aventiv Technologies (East Elmhurst) Brennan Center for Justice (NYC) Brooklyn Defender Services (NYC) Center for Alternative Sentencing & Employment Services (NYC) Center for Appellate Litigation (NYC) Center for Employment Opportunities (Buffalo, Bronx, Rochester, Albany, NYC) Center for Justice Innovation (Throughout state) Circle for Justice Innovations (NYC) Common Justice (NYC) Cornell University (Ithaca) Council of State Governments Justice Center (NYC) Defy Ventures (NYC) Drug Policy Alliance (NYC) exalt youth (NYC) Ford Foundation (NYC) The Fortune Society (NYC) Girl Vow, Inc. (NYC) Global Fund for Women (NYC) Heartbeat Opera (NYC) Idea42 (NYC) Innocence Project (NYC) Jobs to Move America (Remote; residents of NYC preferred) John Jay College Institute for Justice & Opportunity (NYC) Justice Committee (NYC) Lambda Legal (NYC) Legal Aid Society (NYC) MDRC (NYC) National Network for Safe Communities @ John Jay College (NYC) Neighborhood Defender Service (NYC) New York City Bar Association (NYC) New York City Criminal Justice Agency (NYC) New York City Health Department (NYC) New York Legal Assistance Group (NYC) O Positive Festival (Kingston) The Osborne Association (NYC) Parole Preparation Project (NYC) Physicians for Human Rights (NYC) Recidiviz (NYC) REFORM Alliance (NYC) Rehabilitation through the Arts (Harrison/Purchase) Release Aging People in Prison Campaign (NYC) Southern Poverty Law Center (NYC) STAR Program @ SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University (Brooklyn) State University of New York System Administration (Albany, occasionally other locations) Tides (NYC) The Urban Assembly (NYC) Vera Institute of Justice (NYC) Visa (NYC) Vital Strategies (NYC) Vox Media (NYC) Welcome.US (NYC) Women’s Prison Association (NYC) Youth Represent (NYC) North Carolina ACLU of North Carolina (Raleigh) Helps Education Fund (Raleigh) RTI International (Raleigh) Vital Strategies (Raleigh) Ohio ACLU of Ohio (Cleveland) Anti-Defamation League (Cleveland) Center for Employment Opportunities (Columbus) Ohio Organizing Collaborative (Cleveland, Columbus) Oklahoma ACLU of Oklahoma (Oklahoma City) Aventiv Technologies (Oklahoma City) Center for Employment Opportunities (Oklahoma City) Motivo Group, Inc. (Tulsa) Oregon ACLU of Oregon (Portland) Partners for Justice (Portland) The Pathfinder Network (Portland, Medford, Oregon City, Salem, Pendleton) Sponsors, Inc. (Eugene) YWCA of Greater Portland Pennsylvania Abolitionist Law Center (Philadelphia) ACLU of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia) Anti-Defamation League (Philadelphia, Pittsburgh) Cafe Momentum (Pittsburgh) Center for Employment Opportunities (Harrisburg) Congreso De Latinos Unidos (Philadelphia) Down North Pizza (Philadelphia) Defy Ventures (Philadelphia) Fab Youth Philly (Philadelphia) Grant Blvd (Philadelphia) League of Women Voters of Pennsylvania (Harrisburg) Mural Arts Philadelphia New Leash on Life USA (Philadelphia) New Pennsylvania Project (Throughout state) North10 (Philadelphia) Partners for Justice (Philadelphia) Pennsylvania Prison Society (Statewide) People Advancing Reintegration Recycle Works (Philadelphia) PowerCorpsPHL (Philadelphia) Solar States (Philadelphia) The Monkey & the Elephant (Philadelphia) Wash Cycle Laundry (Philadelphia) Women’s Way (Philadelphia) YEAH [Youth Empowerment for Advancement Hangout] (Philadelphia) Yoga 4 Philly (Philadelphia) Rhode Island Garden Time (Providence) Tennessee ACLU of Tennessee (Nashville) Cafe Momentum (Nashville) Center for Employment Opportunities (Memphis) Texas ACLU of Texas (Houston) Arnold Ventures (Houston) Aventiv Technologies (Abilene, Beaumont, Carrollton, Houston, Iowa Park, Marlin, Raymondville, San Saba, Tennessee Colony) Lambda Legal (Dallas) Neighborhood Defender Service (Houston, San Antonio) Partners for Justice (Houston) Vanir Construction Management, Inc. (Austin, Dallas, Houston, San Antonio) Visa (Austin) Utah Aventiv Technologies (West Valley City) Visa (Lehi) Virginia ACLU of Virginia (Richmond) Aventiv Technologies (Chesapeake) The Haven (Charlottesville) Legal Aid Justice Center (Throughout state) Visa (Ashburn) Washington, DC ACLU of the District of Columbia Alliance for Safety & Justice Amnesty International Anti-Defamation League Arnold Ventures Campaign for Fair Sentencing of Youth Civil Rights Corps Common Cause (Other regions occasionally available) Council of State Governments Justice Center Drug Policy Alliance Families Against Mandatory Minimums Free Minds Book Club & Writing Workshop FWD.us Idea42 Impact Justice Jobs to Move America (Remote; residents of DC preferred) Johns Hopkins University - Grand Oaks Lambda Legal Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law MDRC MacArthur Justice Center Physicians for Human Rights Public Justice Public Welfare Foundation REFORM Alliance RTI International Sierra Club Southern Poverty Law Center United Farm Workers Foundation Upturn Urban Institute Visa Vox Media Washington State ACLU of Washington (Seattle) Anti-Defamation League (Seattle) Aventiv Technologies (Olympia, Walla Walla) Defy Ventures (Seattle) E & E Foods, Inc. (Renton, Federal Way) Financial Empowerment Network (Remote within state) Hepatitis Education Project (Seattle) Vanir Construction Management, Inc. (Port Angeles, Renton) Visa (Bellevue) Washington Innocence Project (Seattle) Wisconsin Aventiv Technologies (Green Bay) Defy Ventures (Milwaukee) Nationwide (physical locations vary) American Civil Liberties Union Common Cause Goodwill Industries Sierra Club Vanir Construction Management, Inc. Vera Institute of Justice Vital Strategies Remote Some of these organizations operate on a fully remote basis, while others regularly post remote positions. Acacia Center for Justice Alliance for Safety & Justice Amnesty International Aventiv Technologies The Bail Project (Must reside in AZ, CA, CO, FL, GA, IN, IL, KY, MD, MO, MT, NY, NC, OH, OK, TX, PA, SC, or WA) Battle Born Progress/Institute for a Progressive Nevada (Should reside in NV) Black Farmer Fund (Must reside in Northeast, preference for NYC metro area) Borealis Philanthropy Campaign for Fair Sentencing of Youth (also Washington, DC) CareerVillage.org Center for Policing Equity (Northeast often preferred) Checkr Climate & Land Use Alliance Council of State Governments Justice Center Dream Defenders (Preference for employees on the East Coast) Facing History & Ourselves Fellowship of Reconciliation Financial Empowerment Network (Remote within WA) Foundation for Louisiana (Remote within LA) FWD.us Global Fund for Women Grantmakers Concerned with Immigrants & Refugees Helps Education Fund Human Rights Watch (also international positions) Ideas42 Institute for Local Self-Reliance Jobs to Move America (Residents of Los Angeles, CA; Birmingham, AL; Chicago, IL; NYC; New Jersey; Washington, DC preferred) Law Enforcement Action Partnership MDRC Momentum Advisory Collective MPower Change National Network for Safe Communities @ John Jay College New Seneca Village Partners for Justice Physicians for Human Rights Political Research Associates Public Justice Recidiviz REFORM Alliance (Occasionally within FL, IA, CA, NJ, PA, GA, LA, MI, MN, IN, IL) RTI International Sierra Club Southern Poverty Law Center Tides Upturn Vera Institute of Justice Violence Free Colorado (Must reside in CO) Vox Media Welcome Corps Women’s Foundation California (Must reside in CA) Worth Rises Justice-Impacted Business Please consider supporting these businesses, owned and/or operated by justice-impacted people. 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