Workforce Development meeting 5/01/24

Based in the South Bay and works in infrastructure ecosystems in the Web3 space

Has a start up called Catalysts

Catalysts is a conduit: 10 companies that are bringing hardware and software together

Community Treasury 50-400k per month

Farmers are in a DAO that vote on how the community treasury funds get spent

For example, they are building a church in Zimbabwe

Film teacher who connected the We <3 SF community to AJ

AJ earned his living doing corporate video, so is incredibly skilled

Love wins is his last name that he chose. He has a lot of love

With his head, he believes that love is the answer

Sandy is retired and has been doing activist work to support immigrants in Marin county

ICE out ofMarin is the name of their organization

They got the sherif to reduce the number from 168-12 people removed per year

Also did a project in San Quinton. “Till you know my story” is a play a man was writing, and Sandy helped bring in a professional screen writer in and a director to support him. This changed her life

San Quinton has a lot of volunteers to support them: meditation, Shakespeare, acting, and other workshops

Volunteer Coordinator for The Pheonix, an app for people in recovery or seeking sobriety

They feel very isolated, so the app provides a way to connect people to fun athletic and creative event

This is a community, similar to in AA and in Christianity (and other religions), one of the main pillars is to be of service and give back.

Allies are encouraged, people just need to be sober for 48 hours prior to joining

We offer tock climbing, meditation, yoga, cross fit, hiking, jewelry making, sewing and more!

Artist who** v**olunteered as a social worker in encampments during covid

Entered the mental health and housing fields and was disappointed by the lack of services provided to people in emergency and transitional housing programs

Believes workforce development is essential is restoring people’s lives

Our goal should not be to end with someone on fixed income in subsidized housing

We want them to have purposeful and meaningful lives where they can hopefully pass down a home or savings to their loved ones

Coordinator of the WD DAO

Web3 Data analytics, customer engagement

Has liked being able to help this community and make an impact

Coordinates the Mentorship DAO

Has a company that brings self-directed neuroplasticity to the market

Coordination for the interim housing DAO, and a tiny home community is in the works

We are considering a plot of land in Oakland

Our past work was burial style and 6 out of 15 tiny house recipients have made it into permanent affordable housing

Currently we are asking the question: What does success look like, for each DAO?

Fresh, new ideas are in the works

Love your Neighbor Bakery, John Kim’s bakery that supports his community with workforce/lifeskill training within the bakery

They have a Partnership with City Teams

Food and Beverage Workforce live skills such as: show up on time, listen to instructions, etc.

Problem in food and beverage industries are moving more towards automation vs boosting up people’s skills

Our goal is to help build up people’s confidence

Building bridges is the main thing that we do

Ai can potentially look at a profile and then connect them to the best training providers

Would love to host a job fair of some kind here at some point

Outcomes based job fair. Having a provable outcome would be great

We go through this when they are ready and have measurable outcomes

Metrics of lasting a long time in a job, sustaining rents and eventually mortgage payment

Consider the question, “Do I love my job?”

We are trying to do a private version of what they office already does

We want the providers to come join the DAO, edit their GEO pages and work with us

Can we get interns in here to maintain the GEO pages?

They could be getting work experience in at

Work with the providers and build relationships with them

GEO could hire interns in a job fair

“Nothing pays more than experience”

Roadblock, people need computers

College students could be a target demographic

Not enough employers, places to place people

Non Profits already struggle finding time to manage their own websites

Funding and resources are also requested

Hire someone through the DAO to look through and find more job and career opportunities for people

They place people who generally need help in their careers

Some needs: hygiene, wardrobe, interviewing, etc.

Two pronged approach: the organizational provider will need to have bandwidth to at least talk to the interns/volunteers

We need to communicate the value added to the orgss that we would like to fill out pages on GEO

GEO is how we take it from manual to actually scaling.

We need a case study of someone who walks through that journey

Funding and partnerships are the value added

Short intro: Maybe we have a table of contents as the first thing people see

Collapsible tables in the future, potentially

Dynamic content to the top

Tabs could be added: playbook

Make it more engaging and exciting

“About” area community, partnership, network, philanthropy

Goals and roles are the inter working of the DAO

Community goals and roles should be separate

On-boarder, researcher, relationship builder, financial analyst

Ken Nim shared that Employer Development is the main area where the city could use support.

Roles in the ecosystem vs the roles of the DAO itself

Interim Housing DAO is also separate from the Tree Ring Village Project from the DAO’s main landing page.

This is done by tagging all of the DAO specific or TRV specific pages with their own tags

Oakland Workforce development Section

Potentially 1 full time person who is an expert on recruiting and workforce development

On-site support

1 full time person who has meetings with them and office hours

Workforce development mentor

Track all of their metrics

Cypress Mandela, Mandela Partners

City Team could be a partner with WD collaboration