HOME FOR GOOD
Entrepreneur Maker Workshops
Home For Good Entrepreneur Maker Workshops integrate critical life skills with creative craft maker-skills, training participants to make marketable furnishings, fashions, and accessories from salvaged and remnant materials, and to sell their products direct to consumers. Revenues from sales go to compensate participants and support the program.
Justice & Social Impact
Craft Workshops have proven efficient and effective in engaging participants from a wide-range of backgrounds and developing portable skills that reduce recidivism and prepare them for success. Program proficiencies include:
• Time & Resource Management
• Problem Solving
• Financial Skills & Budgeting
• Product Design, Development & Pricing
• Marketing & Branding
• Procurement, Inventory Management, & Delivery Services
• Event Planning, Hospitality, Sales, & Customer Engagement
• Social Capital & Network Development
Fiscal Discipline & Environmental Impact
Home For Good’s Craft Workshops use salvaged and remnant materials, helping keep overhead low and rescuing tons of materials from otherwise destined for landfill.
“I used to drive around looking for places to rob. Now I drive around looking for things people have thrown out that I can make into treasures.” - James E.
Commerce & Civic Value
All too often, formerly incarcerated people are marginalized, viewed by society as damaged, less-than, lacking value as employees and community members. Home For Good uses the power of commerce to promote civic value for justice-impacted people. Commercial transactions are a mutual recognition of value that is objective, where each party formally acknowledges the value of the other through the exchange of payment for goods or services. In the Home For Good program, such transactions take place face-to-face, between people who otherwise have little social contact and very often have derogatory and stereotypical views of the other. That transaction opens up space for dialogue, familiarity, and empathy that can be equally transformative for both parties.
FOR MORE INFORMATION OR TO SUPPORT OR SPONSOR Home For Good
CONTACT TOMMY SAFIAN AT TSAFIAN@PRISMREFORM.ORG
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