“Springboard Forward has it exactly right. On-the-job coaching to build confidence and improve communication offers skills that are useful across all industries. Outlining a sequence of steps and executing a plan is critical for advancement in any job. Excellent model!”
–Robert Reich, Former US Secretary of Labor

At Springboard, a job is just the beginning… Our unusual approach comes from understanding what workers need to build successful careers and good incomes after they land a job.

While job training and placement programs move the unemployed back on to the payroll, job training is not enough. Over 50% of our nation’s poor are actually working full-time, but still living in poverty.

Most of our clients are single parents, with barely enough income to cover rent and other basic living expenses. For workers like these, the paths out of poverty have become much less apparent. Why? They do not have the transferable career mobility skills necessary to move past entry-level jobs, and into promising new opportunities.

Springboard Forward is an IRS 501(c)(3) operating in Mountain View, CA, serving primarily Santa Clara and San Mateo Counties.