“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

“Companies are paying a fortune in turnover costs. Springboard Forward is reducing those costs by helping low-wage employees help themselves.”
–Eric Benhamou, Chairman, Palm, 3Com

“I would not have been promoted without this program.”
–Sabrina Wyatt, Star Performers client

“This program proved to be the crucial factor in my employees’ success.”
–Joe Hiraoka, Home Depot Supervisor

WHY EMPLOYERS LOVE SBF

Employers and workers succeed when employees are optimistic and engaged. Employers enjoy improved retention rates, better service, happier customers and clients, and reduced costs of hiring, training, and replacing workers.

SBF works directly with employers to design customized on-the-job coaching and employee development programs. SBF’s record of success is built on partnerships with employers that develop an engaged, effective, and stable employee base.

WHY EMPLOYEES LOVE SBF

SBF provides low-wage workers with the sophisticated, individualized career services usually reserved for executives. Traditional workforce development efforts and employment services focus on teaching vocational skills and securing jobs. SBF picks up where this work leaves off, helping workers to set goals, increase responsibilities, achieve promotions, and ultimately, enhance incomes.

HOW SBF PROGRAMS IMPROVE COMMUNITIES

Workers need to take the steps to build successful careers after they land a job. While job training and placement programs return the unemployed to the workplace, job training is not enough. Over 50% of our nation’s poor actually are 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 often are not apparent. Why? They lack the career-mobility skills necessary to move past entry-level jobs into new opportunities.

Springboard Forward turns hope into concrete advantage. We turn low-wage earners into career professionals.

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