“If you’re measuring it strictly out of the internships, we’re probably getting 75 percent moving into jobs,” he said. And not everyone goes on a linear path from internship to job. Petersen said that HopeWorks doesn’t have long-term data on how people fare after going through the program. It will also purchase two new trucks and equipment for three existing HopeWorks businesses and will help launch a fourth business this year. The money will be used for building improvements at HopeWorks Station. And it received a huge vote of confidence in December when the Employees Community Fund of Boeing Puget Sound gave it a $500,000 grant. HopeWorks has landed several low-interest loans from investors in the community to support the effort. See how ampm at 4030 Rucker Ave, Everett, WA 98201 ranks out of all Convenience Stores in Everett, WA for daily visits. The nonprofit would also like to build a five-story building at the site to include housing on the top floors and commercial space on the bottom floor. The nonprofit owns about an acre at the site and would like to add another three businesses. It’s also large enough for Petersen’s vision. Petersen said it’s an ideal location, because it is only a couple of blocks away from the buses at Everett Station and easily accessible to anyone who lives in the Housing Hope properties. The nonprofit moved its headquarters and three businesses to the site. HopeWorks was able to purchase the building for $1.25 million in March 2014. In July 2013, a bathroom in the building leaked during the weekend and heavily damaged the inside of the building. The building used to be an MRI and diagnostic clinic, but the company went out of business. HopeWorks were originally located on Evergreen Way, but moved in September to the building on Broadway at what’s being called HopeWorks Station. The third venture was the upscale, consignment store ReNewWorks. The company also helped HopeWorks with its second venture, WaterWorks Irrigation Services.
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Signature Landscape Services in Redmond has helped HopeWorks with understanding how to run and operate a landscaping business. “We were paying others to do our landscaping.” “Landscaping started, because Housing Hope owned 20 different landscapes and we thought we could learn on our own nickel and use our own sites,” Petersen said.
The first business started was GroundWorks Landscaping, in part, because Housing Hope has so many properties around Snohomish County. “I felt out on a limb a lot of this time, but I started with Housing Hope Day One with five other board members so I figured we know how to do this and we know what the community wants and we know a lot about marketing communication and grant resources and people in the community who want to be involved.”
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