2016-09-19T07:27:45-07:00 2015-06-30 SCHALL & ASHENFARB CPAS 307 5th Ave 15th Floor NEW YORK NY 100166517 990 2014-07-01 133843322 Center for Employment Opportunities Inc CENT 2124224430 50 Broadway 15th Floor New York NY 10004 Samuel Schaeffer CEO 2016-09-19 true David C Ashenfarb P00535436 2122682800 2014 2017-02-10 21:41:12Z Samuel Schaeffer 32 Broadway 15th Fl New York NY 10004 24956976 false false X WWW.CEOWORKS.ORG X 1996 NY CEO provides immediate, effective and comprehensive employment services to men and women with recent criminal convictions. 12 12 4618 10 0 21498867 24944607 0 12059 12369 31774 0 21542700 24956976 0 0 15789293 19004312 0 377282 5724141 6576541 21513434 25580853 29266 -623877 7640433 10311740 4137977 7433161 3502456 2878579 The Center for Employment Opportunities (CEO) is dedicated to providing immediate, effective and comprehensive employment services to men and women with recent criminal convictions. The agency's highly structured, tightly supervised program helps participant regain the skills and confidence needed for successful transitions to stable, productive lives. false false 12131833 Transitional Work Program - Immediate Work for Immediate PayThrough its transitional work program, CEO provides immediate, time-limited, paid employment for people with recent criminal convictions. CEO places almost no restrictions on enrollment in its program, which begins with a five-day, customized Life Skills Education course that prepares individuals for re-entry into the workforce. Because most participants either have never held a full-time job or have been disconnected from the job market for an extended period of time, CEO staff uses these interactive classroom sessions to reinforce basic workplace skills such as punctuality, good personal presentation, and cooperation with supervisors and co-workers. Participants practice filling out job applications and learn how best to address questions about their convictions in interviews. CEO staff also helps them procure all necessary identification documents, removing a frequent barrier that prevents re-entrants from legally stepping onto a job site and receiving a paycheck.After graduating from Life Skills, participants move immediately into jobs on CEO work crews, where they perform maintenance, repair, grounds keeping, and comparable services for institutional clients. Clients' payment for this work supports CEO's operations and enables the agency to make over 400 work slots available to participants every day. On the worksite, participants, closely guided by CEO site supervisors, model the behaviors employers say they value most: showing up on time, taking direction from a supervisor, working hard, being good co-workers, and using good communication skills. Participants are paid each work day and stay on transitional jobs for an average of two months before being placed in full time jobs. This setting emphasizes progress and momentum; clients support one another and gain motivation from each others successes.In FY 2015, CEO provided transitional employment to over 4,000 formerly incarcerated individuals in New York City; Albany, Binghamton, Buffalo and Rochester, NY; Tulsa and Oklahoma City, OK; and, Oakland, San Bernardino and San Diego, CA. 8851545 Job Placement and Retention - Getting and Keeping a Place in the Permanent Workforce CEO places participants in full-time employment by working with hundreds of employers to fill their hiring needs. Since becoming an independent nonprofit organization in 1996, CEO has created thousands of transitional job opportunities that have led to over 20,000 full-time job placements for formerly incarcerated individuals. In FY 2015, CEO employment services resulted in more than 2,300 full-time job placements in industries and sectors as diverse as food service, retail/wholesale, manufacturing, human services, construction, maintenance, and warehousing. To ensure participants remain in the workforce once they are employed, CEO retention specialists provide workplace counseling, crisis management, job re-development in the event of job loss, and long-term career planning for one full year after placement. Additionally, an incentive-based job retention program, Rapid Rewards, provides monthly payments to all participants who sign up for the program and attain specified employment milestones. Of participants placed in full-time jobs within the prior year, just under 53 percent were still working after 180 days, and 43.8 percent were working after 365 days. CEO uses the most rigorous verification methods to determine job retention - paystubs, criminal justice official sign- off, or independent verification with employers and does not accept self reported information for job placement or job retention. Pay for Success: Expanding Services to Demonstrate Impact In late 2013, New York State announced that CEO would be the sole provider in a $13.5 million investor-backed Pay for Success (PFS) project. The state is seeking to reduce recidivism and increase employment among people at a high risk of returning to prison or jail and turned to CEO to achieve this result through its evidence-based model. In January 2014, CEO began to serve an additional 425 participants in New York City and 75 in Rochester annually as part of this innovative project; over the four years, CEO will serve an additional 2,000 individuals in New York City and Rochester combined. CEO has nearly doubled its size since 2009 and expanded from a New York City based organization to one with ten offices across New York, Oklahoma, and CaliforniaCEO is one of few programs in the country that has been through the rigor of a Pay for Success due diligence process and is part of an operational PFS project. Also known as Social Impact Bonds, these projects allow outside investors to put up the capital to run effective programs, which should save the government money. This project increases CEOs service capacity and visibility and adds to the evidence surrounding its work, building on findings from a previous random-assignment evaluation that proved CEO reduced recidivism and produced a total benefit of $3.85 per dollar spent. For investors, the deal entails both risk and opportunity based on CEOs performance. If a random assignment evaluation shows that CEOs program reduces days spent in jail or prison and increases immediate and long-term employment, USDOL and the State of New York will return investors their upfront capital. If CEO exceeds these measures, returns can reach as high as 12.5 percent. If targets are not met, investors stand to lose their capital. This deal represents not only an innovation in public finance; it also demonstrates investor confidence in the efficacy of CEOs program. 20983378 true true false true false false false false false false true false false false true true true false false false false false false false false false false false false true false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false true 30 0 true 4618 true false false false false false false false false 0 false false false false false false false false false false X 12 12 true false false false false false false true true false false true true true true true true true true false CA NY OK X X Brad Dudding 2124224430 50 Broadway 18th Floor New York NY 10004 William Snipes Trustee 0.15 0.00 X 0 0 0 Cristine Soto DeBerry Trustee 0.15 0.00 X 0 0 0 David I Moskovitz Chairman 0.15 0.00 X X 0 0 0 Emary Aronson Trustee 0.15 0.00 X 0 0 0 Steven Fishner Treasurer 0.15 0.00 X X 0 0 0 Kathryn Jo Mannes Trustee 0.15 0.00 X 0 0 0 Elizabeth Balfour Trustee 0.15 0.00 X 0 0 0 Joel D Hornstein Trustee 0.15 0.00 X X 0 0 0 Andrew Van Der Vord Trustee 0.15 0.00 X 0 0 0 Jonathan D Miller Trustee 0.15 0.00 X 0 0 0 O Peter Sherwood Secretary 0.15 0.00 X X 0 0 0 Ellen V Holloman Trustee 0.15 0.00 X 0 0 0 Samuel Schaeffer CEO 60.00 0.00 X 171101 0 16527 Bradley L Dudding COO 60.00 0.00 X 136593 0 21582 Le'Ann Duran Exec. 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Tax filings for periods ending June 30, 2012 and later are subject to examination by applicable taxing authorities. X X false false false false false false false false false false Bradley L Dudding COO 136593 21582 158175 Samuel Schaeffer CEO 171101 16527 187628 Tani Mills Chief of ExAffairs 138757 15734 154491 Form 990, Part VI, Line 2: Description of Business or Family Relationship of Officers, Directors, Et Board Chair is related through marriage to a trustee (sister-in-law). Form 990, Part VI, Line 11b: Form 990 Review Process Management reviewed a draft of the form 990 with the audit/finance committee. After this process was performed, the form 990 was sent to the full board of directors prior to being filed with the IRS. Form 990, Part VI, Line 12c: Explanation of Monitoring and Enforcement of Conflicts The organization has a "board approved" conflicts of interest policy. Each board member must fill out an annual declaration stating they had no conflicts or identifying the nature of their interested party transactions. Form 990, Part VI, Line 15a: Compensation Review & Approval Process - CEO, Top Management Each year, the executive committee reviews comparable salaries based on a recognized study and reviews the performance of the executive director to determine if the existing salary falls within these ranges. After a deliberation of this matter, a new proposed salary and benefit package is voted on. The minutes of the board of directors reflect the nature of this process. Form 990, Part VI, Line 19: Other Organization Documents Publicly Available Financial Statements are available on CEO's website and upon request. The governing documents and conflict of interest policy are available upon request.