Programs encourage independence and job preparedness
 
Each of the women gathered in the weekly New Directions class has a unique story. A diverse mixture of race, age, education, and economics, these women have joined together for one goal-to learn the tools needed to begin or continue a career that will help them take care of themselves, and often the children that depend on them.
 
For more than 25 years, New Directions Career Center has offered workshops and programs targeting women entering or re-entering the workforce in central Ohio. Many of these women are in transition as a result of divorce, death of a spouse, or after leaving an abusive situation. As a nonprofit leader in career counseling...

Read more about New Directions in January issue of The Columbus Foundation e-News.

Also, listen to Linda Danter, executive director of New Directions Career Center, tell us how the Center is changing the lives of women in our community in our January podcast. (Length 5 min 10 sec)

To learn more about New Directions, visit PowerPhilanthropy at www.columbusfoundation.org.