Facts

NEW

• Enrolled more than one thousand women in NEW training programs since 1978. Thousands more received a variety of support services


• Has been honored with five WANTO (Women in Apprenticeship and Nontraditional Occupations) grants from the U.S. Department of Labor since 1987. These funds have enabled NEW to establish and maintain relationships with employers and to supply technical assistance to numerous contractors and subcontractors


• Received the Exemplary Public Interest Contribution (EPIC) Award from the U. S. Secretary of Labor in 2004. The EPIC honors four organizations annually for leadership in the implementation of equal employment opportunity standards


• Helped create the New York City Employment and Training Coalition, which advocates on issues of workforce development and welfare reform


• Co-founded Tradeswomen Now and Tomorrow (TNT) an advocacy and policy organization that deals with issues facing women in blue-collar employment

NEW Women

• Have the desire to train for physically and mentally challenging occupations that involve hands-on labor


• Include displaced homemakers, dislocated workers receiving unemployment, and those on public assistance, many of whom are single heads of households


• Range in age from 18 to 50; are ethnically diverse—about 50 percent are African-American, 30 percent Latina, and 20 percent Caucasian; and come from all five boroughs—roughly 35 percent from Brooklyn, 20 percent each from Manhattan, the Bronx, and Queens, and 5 percent from Staten Island


• Graduate at an average rate of 80 percent, with over 70 percent placed in high-wage jobs


• Earn more than $15 per hour in their first jobs after completing training

NEW Employers

• Include Amtrak, United Parcel Service, Con Edison, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, City University of New York, and Columbia University