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For over 30 years, CEO has been the nation's trusted leader in paid transitional work and job placement for people with criminal convictions. CEO prepares participants with the essential skills to rejoin the workforce and restart their lives. CEO is the only organization in New York City to offer immediate employment during the critical first days after release from incarceration.

Because of CEO's cutting-edge research into the field, CEO is revolutionizing how we address the needs of at-risk communities - including young adults and fathers.
We invite you to explore our press room for recent media coverage, press releases and research papers about our pioneering work. Thank you for joining us as we help transform the lives of our participants and the communities in which they live.

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Information Policy and Legal

CEO is committed to maintaining the privacy of our website visitors and donors and to maintaining the confidentiality of your personal information.

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Data Collection
We do not collect personally identifiable information from you unless you provide it to us voluntarily and knowingly. If you make a donation, for example, we may collect your name, mailing address, telephone number, email address, and credit card information.

The personal information you provide is solely utilized to process and receipt your donation or to respond to any of information requests you may have. Donor anonymity will be respected if requested and where applicable. Please contact us if you would like your donation to be omitted from acknowledgment in the CEO annual report.

If you provide us with personal information, we may enter that information into our constituent database and contact you in order to:
• Complete voluntary surveys seeking feedback for quality and service improvement purposes
• Supply you with information, including CEO news, events and services
• Request voluntary time or monetary contributions to CEO

The Center for Employment Opportunities strives to keep donors informed about how donations are used and their importance for continuing our programs. We send several mailings a year to accomplish this. However, you may opt out of any and all mailings by contacting us with your request to:

Yvonne Juico
Center For Employment Opportunities
32 Broadway, 15 Fl
New York, NY 10004
Tel: 212.422.4430 x215
Fax: 212.422.4855

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From time to time, visitor logs are used on this site for statistical purposes only. No attempt will be made to identify or collect personal information about individuals who come to our website. CEO may automatically receive and record information on our server logs from your browser, which may include your IP address, session time, click path analysis, and the pages you request; however, we will only use this type data internally to improve our site and will not release the information.
Thank you for visiting our site. Should you have any questions about the operation of the site, please contact:

Jessie Grenfell
Chief Information Officer
Center For Employment Opportunities
32 Broadway, 15 Fl
New York, NY 10004
Phone: 212 422-4430 ext.259

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Research and Learning

CEO is committed to "learning by doing" and then capturing that learning to share with a wider audience. CEO's policy and planning department serves as a real-time analytic and problem-solving resource for CEO. It also shares important findings and lessons with the field, in white papers entitled "CEO Reports" and through presentations. Through these activities, CEO develops and disseminates best practices on reentry and workforce development to other jurisdictions and to policymakers grappling with these issues.

For more facts about CEO view our Statistics.

We use our results to study areas for improvement and research and develop ways to serve our clients, better.

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CEO serves people with criminal convictions who are looking for work. CEO is open to anyone under Parole supervision, to qualify he or she must be able to do physical labor on transitional worksites (other restrictions include that the individual's most recent crime can not be a serious violent crime such as a sex offense). We also accept people on Probation in Brooklyn and other people with criminal convictions on a case-by-case basis including individuals under the supervision of Federal or New York City Probation or those coming home from Riker's Island.

For what it means to be on Parole, go to US Department of Justice.

For more information on how we can help please visit Technical Assistance and Consulting.

For more facts about CEO view our Statistics.

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Donate Online Now

CEO's Rapid Rewards Program gives newly employed participants incentives for continuous months that they work. It offers critical support to the newly employed to help offset the high costs of transportation and food that make it difficult for many low-income individuals - perhaps especially those who are recently transitioning from prison - to remain employed at what are often low-wage jobs. They receive everything from grocery store vouchers to public transportation fare ending at the twelfth month with a check for $200. In total, the financial incentives for one year of consecutive employment equal a value of $615

Yes! I want to help someone who's started working to stay working.

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About Us

History
CEO is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization. For more than 30 years, CEO's goal has been to provide immediate, comprehensive and effective employment services for men and women returning from incarceration.

CEO began as a demonstration project of the Vera Institute of Justice in the 1970s to address employment barriers facing the formerly incarcerated following release. In 1996, CEO became an independent nonprofit organization, providing comprehensive employment services to people newly released from New York State prisons and detention facilities. in its decade as an independent nonprofit CEO made 10,000 job placements for formerly incarcerated persons into full-time employment. CEO maintains the distinction of being the only organization in New York City to offer immediate employment during the critical first days after release from jail and prison.
One of CEO's major strengths is its ongoing relationships with other organizations in the criminal justice, workforce development, and social service fields.

For more facts about CEO view our Statistics. For information about donors, view our funding partners.

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During the past decade CEO has placed 10,000 formerly incarcerated persons in full-time employment.

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Who We Serve

CEO serves men and women with criminal convictions who are looking for work. CEO is open to anyone under Parole Supervision, to qualify he or she must be able to do physical labor on transitional worksites. We also accept other formerly incarcerated people on a case by case basis including individuals under the supervision of Federal or New York City Probation.

People with criminal convictions face significant and multiple barriers to employment, including a lack of basic education and occupational skills, limited or no work history, and minimal family and community support systems. In addition, there is an increasing reluctance among employers to hire people with criminal histories.

CEO targets people recently convicted or released from prison regardless of their education, skills, work history, or enthusiasm and provides pre-employment job readiness training through: one week of intensive classroom instruction; meetings with a job coach; paid transitional work at a CEO supervised work site; vocational assessment and job development; unsubsidized job placement; and job retention support. CEO is widely recognized for its proven ability to place the most difficult-to-employ individuals in full-time, permanent jobs.

Many participants have completed Shock Incarceration, New York State's six-month correctional boot camp. A large number were incarcerated under New York's mandatory sentencing laws, convicted of drug offenses. Ninety-four percent of CEO participants are men; their average age is 31. Ethnic makeup, similar to New York State's prison population, is 59 percent African American, 37 percent Hispanic and four percent Caucasian, Asian or other.

Learn more about our Recruitment and Referral.

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What We Do

CEO addresses the relationship between work and crime. CEO offers comprehensive employment services exclusively for people with criminal records. CEO's model is based on a highly structured program of pre-employment training, short-term paid transitional employment and full-time job placement and retention services. Each year, CEO prepares more than 2,000 people to move into mainstream employment.

As a leader in the field, CEO provides technical assistance for service providers and government officials across the nation and around the world. CEO also facilitates and performs research on work and crime, tests new ideas and disseminates findings.

CEO is the only organization in NYC to offer immediate employment during the critical first days after release from incarceration

In the past decade, CEO has made job placements for over 10,000 formerly incarcerated individuals

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