SVdP Blogs
Working directly with SVdP clients is a challenging and rewarding experience. Read the experiences of our interns as they navigate the ups and downs of their year with SVdP.
A lot has happened since my last post on the blog. The biggest news is that Homeless Court is beginning to have a lot of people accepted into the program. With very little advertising, Homeless Court ...
CWF/SVdP hosting a Job Fair on July 8 from 1-4pm This job fair will place our clients in face-to-face contact with employers in Oakland and other parts of the East Bay who have job openings or...
Corey and Akil, graduates of the TE program, have been hired part-time in the Men’s Center and for Community Outreach, respectively. Akil got in trouble with the law in 1998. Since then, ...
Oscar graduated from the Transitional Employee Baler position and Champion Workforce back in January. Since he started working at SVdP, he worked hard to move out of a shelter, into transitional h...
Graduate of transitional employee program shares advice
Marcus Graduated from the TE program in November 2009 Marcus is from Oakland and is now in his 2nd semester at Merritt College studying community social services and substance abuse. What brought to...
2009-2010 -Joe & Nicole
2008-2009 -Ryan
2007-2008 - Mike
2006-2007- Paul
2005-2006-Joe
2004-2005- Tom
WasteNot! Blog
WasteNot: Social Enterprise of SVdP Alameda County
Interesting article in the NYT about factory jobs and skilled workers. In Cleveland, more and more manufacturing jobs are opening. Despite a large pool of unemployed people, employers are having trouble filling these positions. Most cite a lack of candidates that have the skills necessary for the...
Join Us at the Beehive Market in Berkeley!
We're excited to announce we'll be at the Beehive Market in Berkeley starting Saturday, June 19th from 10:00 am - 2:00 pm. Come down for food, music, local crafts, and all things green! @ Berkeley Adult School Parking Lot 1701 San Pablo Avenue, Berkeley, CA 94702
WasteNot provides free electronics recycling for the community and provides jobs for the disadvantaged. We're a social enterprise, meaning we use business practices to generate earned revenue that supports our social and environmental missions. We measure our performance with a triple bottom ...
Kitchen of Champions Culinary Blog
The gang headed to meet with head chef Laurence Jackson of Laney College today, where he gave our trainees a tour of their top notch facility and spoke of culinary career trajectories. In all of...
Fruit Carving Demo by Chef Jimmy (www.artchef.com)
Award-winning fruit and vegetable carver Chef Jimmy (www.artchef.com) dropped by to give a demo/lesson on the basics of carving exquisite food sculptures. Trainees were mesmerized-- there has never be...
Field Trip!! Berkeley Bowl West
The kind people of Berkeley Bowl West had us over for a lecture/discussion/demo on fruits/vegetables/herbs today just 2 miles up the road. Produce supervisor Caesar and general manager Bev Hop took tu...
Kitchen on Fire Knife Skills Demo
Our good friends Chef Mike C. and Gilad of Kitchen on Fire came to give our trainees an epic 3 hour knife skills demo that resulted in no casualties!!!(!) We look forward to working with them again ve...
Graduation of Cohort 23/Intro to our first SUPER COHORT
We graduated more culinary trainees this past Friday and welcomed a supergroup (no, not Them Crooked Vultures) to the SVDP family yesterday. Here are some pictures of the graduation, featuring Deacon ...