Good Afternoon ,
This may be a different subject on this forum . I have been brainstorming
a project with my hometown. Like many small and large cities in the U.S. , we have a homeless issue. Many of these folks once had skills that were , and still are needed in the workforce. What concerns me , is the longer they are out of work , their skills are going to be diminished
My idea is , that there are small ,very simple ,manufacturing processes that maybe some companies don't have the personnel , space , or don't want to be bothered.
Several years ago I once had a service call to a manufacture. I thought I was at the wrong place because it did not look at a manufacturing area. I thought it was an "Ambush" . What it was , was a small operation that filled Kool Aid packs .
Most of our homeless folks are in the downtown area. There is a lot of vacant buildings in this area. What I would like to do is bring a small operation to this area of town and have these people run , repair , perform maintenance on these machines , understand Quality Control , and the economy .
I already discussed this with the mayor , and I'm going to talk with the Business Development folks this week.
I'm wondering , would you guys have any thoughts or groups that you would recommend to contact about this idea.
I have no idea how I'm going to pursue this project , with everything else I need to do , but with only 63% of our prime working age people working, we need to train the other 37% to be productive also.
Thanks so much in advance for your ideas.
This may be a different subject on this forum . I have been brainstorming
a project with my hometown. Like many small and large cities in the U.S. , we have a homeless issue. Many of these folks once had skills that were , and still are needed in the workforce. What concerns me , is the longer they are out of work , their skills are going to be diminished
My idea is , that there are small ,very simple ,manufacturing processes that maybe some companies don't have the personnel , space , or don't want to be bothered.
Several years ago I once had a service call to a manufacture. I thought I was at the wrong place because it did not look at a manufacturing area. I thought it was an "Ambush" . What it was , was a small operation that filled Kool Aid packs .
Most of our homeless folks are in the downtown area. There is a lot of vacant buildings in this area. What I would like to do is bring a small operation to this area of town and have these people run , repair , perform maintenance on these machines , understand Quality Control , and the economy .
I already discussed this with the mayor , and I'm going to talk with the Business Development folks this week.
I'm wondering , would you guys have any thoughts or groups that you would recommend to contact about this idea.
I have no idea how I'm going to pursue this project , with everything else I need to do , but with only 63% of our prime working age people working, we need to train the other 37% to be productive also.
Thanks so much in advance for your ideas.