GoliathJobs Featured School of the month - Grace Institute
by Michele O'Connor
GRACE INSTITUTE - NEW YORK CITY
GoliathJobs Featured School of the Month is Grace Institute in New York City. Grace Institute’s tuition-free business and job training program for women changes lives by increasing employment options and ensuring employability even in the most difficult of economies.
Women take classes in computers, business writing and communication, business math, typing/keyboarding, and office procedures. With the assistance of the school’s Career Services Department, today’s graduates now work for top NYC law firms, corporations, hospitals, universities and nonprofits.
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The school is a lifeline for bright, determined women who have been previously underemployed at dead-end, low-wage jobs because of their lack of skills. The only requirements to apply are a high school diploma or GED, permission to work in the United States, and English fluency. “The average student comes to Grace earning a mere $6,000 a year without benefits and graduates after just four and a half months to enter a job earning $32,000 a year plus benefits,” said Grace Institute’s Executive Director Mary Mulvihill. “That’s a significant impact — and students don’t pay any tuition at all, meaning we can serve women who are typically unable to pursue education at a typical college or university.”
Grace Institute was established in 1897 by William Russell Grace, a successful businessman and twice-elected mayor of New York City, and his brother, Michael, as a tuition-free school for immigrant women. Their goals were simple—to educate and find employment for women who were in need.
For over one hundred years, more than 100,000 women have come through the school’s doors in search of better lives. While the courses offered have changed over the years, the approach and mission has remained the same— to provide tuition-free, practical job training in a supportive learning community for underserved New York area women of all ages and from many different backgrounds.
For more information, please contact Grace Institute at:
Grace Institute
1233 Second Ave
New York, NY 10065
Tel: 212-832-7605
www.graceinstitute.org