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Abby Looks for a Job and Finds a Career

on March 19, 2019

Abby started her Juma journey the way many young people do; in need of an income. She was out of school and out of work, without a plan for moving […]

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Juma Employer Partnerships: Connecting Youth to Opportunity

on March 19, 2019

  “Over the past year I’ve really been looking hard at what the best way to create an employer partnership is and what a strong one looks like for both […]

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Juma Houston Named Goodwill’s Employer of the Year

on March 19, 2019

“We see [Juma] as an extraordinary community partner. They’re not just someone we send people to, they are really in it with us every day”, says Goodwill Public and Media […]

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Making Possible, Possible since 1993

on November 29, 2018

When our founders opened the doors of their first social enterprise, a single Ben and Jerry’s Scoop Shop, they had one goal: to give homeless youth a bridge back to […]

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Juma Honored with Obama Foundation Grant

on November 15, 2018

Dear Juma Family, I am thrilled to share the news that Juma was selected as one of the five National Seed Communities of the Obama Foundation’s inaugural My Brother’s Keeper […]

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Juma Joins Gap Inc. in Offering First Job Experience to Youth

on April 3, 2017

Juma believes in the power of a first job to provide young people with the experience and the foundational soft skills needed to succeed in the workforce. Through the recent […]

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Giving ‘Tough Love’ and Watching Confidence Grow: Life as a Youth Career Coach

on January 30, 2017

Last year, Juma launched YouthConnect in Seattle–a support program that provides work, financial capability training and career development coaching to young people who are disconnected from school and the workforce. […]

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Opportunity Youth join the workforce in New York and Atlanta

on April 13, 2016

Last year, Juma launched our social enterprise operation at Yankee’s Stadium in New York and this year at Turner Field in Atlanta. This season, we are excited to be employing […]

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Batter up! Baseball season is here

on April 13, 2016

Baseball season has begun and we are thrilled to be employing 165 youth at AT&T Park and the Oakland Coliseum! For most of our Bay Area youth, vending in the […]

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Building career success among out-of-school, out-of-work youth

on February 18, 2016

Juma is excited to share that after a rigorous national competition, we have been selected by REDF to join a national initiative to scale up the social enterprise field across […]

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