Last April, Google announced the launch of the grow with Google career readiness for retention project, which provides job preparation and digital skills training for individuals who have been imprisoned through cooperation with a number of non-profit organizations As an extension and expansion of the project, Google today announced that it would spend more than $8 million to help people "affected by justice" return to society
Through cooperation with non-profit organizations including the last mile, Center for employment opportunities (CEO), defy ventures, fortune society, and the ladies of hope miniseries, Google announced that of the $8million invested this time, $4million was used for the development of the grow with Google career skills project, aiming to help people affected by the judicial system develop their professional expertise.
In addition, non-profit organizations that have not yet cooperated with Google can also apply to Google for a subsidy of up to $100000 to provide their communities with Google's reemployment skills training.
In addition, google Org will provide us $4.25 million in grants to assist state governments to reduce barriers to employment by using code for America's clear my record tool, which uses an open source algorithm to review records and generate clearance motions. Google. Other appropriations from the national cities alliance will focus on linking people "affected by justice" to work through the National Cities Alliance's urban technology work plan and Columbia University's "justice through code".
In an email interview with techcrunch, google Maab Ibrahim, head of race and criminal justice at org, said:
Google has been planning to promote the "career preparation for social reintegration" program on a large scale. There is a real urgency to this work - in this country, more than 640000 people are released from prison every year, and almost all of them can benefit from the digital skills and employment preparation training we provide through our partners.
We have co founded the program with five non-profit organizations, which have a good record of successfully developing and providing high-quality employment training to returning citizens. After implementing the plan in 2021 and receiving feedback from partners, we have seen what is really good and how we can make a greater impact. "