When Create Action announced The Precision Institute as the winner of a Sony Create Action grant, we were excited to work with them to support their mission assisting neurodiverse adults overcome barriers to employment. The nonprofit trains and assesses the skill sets of neurodiverse individuals to help give them a pathway to long-term career success. As recipients of the grant, The Precision Institute receives $50,000 in cash to continue and expand the organization's work, $50,000 in Sony Electronics products to support their action plan, and this Sony-produced short film telling their story.
Learn more about Create Action grant winner The Precision Institute and their work training and assessing the skill sets of neurodiverse individuals to help them with long-term employment.
“Most of the time the folks we’re dealing with have been told what they’re not, and our job is to find out what they are,” explains Janet Atwater, executive director of The Precision Institute. “75-80 percent of these individuals are underemployed or unemployed. To be able to be with these individuals and see them beginning to not only survive, they start to thrive and they start to grow and they start to blossom. There’s no better job in the whole wide world. No better job.”
Atwater also explains that 90-100 percent of all candidates that come through their program successfully complete it, which attests to the great work they do. “...then you’ve got, 85 percent are being hired by our employment partner, TPI,” she adds.
TPI, also called The Precisionists,Inc., is an IT and business service company. They work hand in hand with The Precision Institute to help graduates succeed in their careers beyond the nonprofit’s workforce development. “The Precisionists is a recipient of the great work they do as we hire many of the individuals that graduate from The Precision Institute’s workforce development program,” says Ernie Dianastasis, CEO of TPI.
The Precision Institute does the entire recruiting and vetting of a candidate, perhaps the only nonprofit to do so in the country, “Then we assess the candidate, work with the HR department on the employment partner side, TPI, to match a candidate to a successful opportunity, and then they’re getting supportive employment once they’re hired so they can succeed in their job,” says Atwater.
Learn more about The Precision Institute at theprecision.institute.
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