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LI Works Coalition Enters into Agreement with Goodwill Industries

 

The Long Island Works Coalition has entered into an agreement in principle with Goodwill Industries of Greater New York and Northern New Jersey, Inc., which will allow Long Island Works to continue to operate while a long-term relationship between the two organizations is negotiated.

 

The relationship grew out of the complimentary strengths of the two non-profit groups. Long Island Works Coalition was created in 1999 to better connect Long Island's younger and emerging workforce to employment opportunities in the area. Goodwill Industries, which was founded more than a century ago, provides vocational, training and job placement services, as well as in school and after-school programs.

 

In 2008, Goodwill served more than 130,000 people in New York, Long Island, Northern New Jersey and upstate New York. LI Works was created by the Long Island Association in 1999.

 

 

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Nonprofits learn the value of a well-planned internship program

Understaffed nonprofits would do well to hire interns.

That was the message behind two seminars co-hosted earlier this year by the Long Island Works Coalition in Melville, the Long Island Volunteer Center in Hempstead and OSI Pharmaceuticals Inc. in Melville.

Through its relationship with the Long Island Volunteer Center, Long Island Works – which helps businesses develop internship programs – learned that many nonprofits are experiencing staff shortages, and it set up the seminars to educate nonprofits about employing interns.

In evaluations of the seminars, which were held at OSI Pharmaceuticals’ offices, most of the 35 to 40 nonprofits in attendance said they planned to set up an internship program or had one and were looking to enhance it.

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The Prestigious President’s Volunteer Service Award Presented to the Long Island Works Coalition

March 2009

Helping to create internship opportunities is a win-win for the non-profit community and for students.  Faced with unprecedented financial challenges and dramatically increasing workloads, the non profit community is struggling to survive.  Students, looking for valuable work experience are turning towards the non profit community.

LI Works Coalition, along with OSI Pharmaceuticals, Inc. and The Long Island Volunteer Center has developed a series of seminars titled Creating an Internship Program for Your Non Profit Agency.  This has included presentations from professionals in the field including Rita DiStefano and Sima Asad Ali, of Portnoy Messinger Pearl & Associates, a Long Island HR Consulting firm.   Click here for picture of awardees:  
www.liworks.org/dsp_photogallery.cfm

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