Beverly Riddick is Chief Operations Officer at Urban Resource Institute @URI_NYC, a nonprofit organization that provides life-saving, empowering social services for New Yorkers who are suffering and recovering from domestic violence. Riddick's role is to facilitate and provide strategic leadership of URI's operations, IT and HR functions. At URI, Riddick brings her accomplished nonprofit management and administrative skills to facilitate the organization's trajectory from a $20M to a $60M organization and soon to be the largest provider of domestic shelter beds in the U.S.For 38 years, URI has been innovating and developing new programs to improve the lives of vulnerable New Yorkers, with a particular focus on survivors of domestic violence. URI helps individuals and families escape abuse; safely heal; and gain the resources needed to live healthy, independent lives. It is the only organization in New York City and one of the few nationally that extends these services to pets. Click on www.urinyc.org for more information.

The Ready To Work Business Collaborative is an employer led coalition whose mission is to help employers achieve their goals by enabling them to see the business advantage in hiring ready to work talent who are frequently overlooked despite being upskilled or re-skilled to meet the needs of today's evolving economy. RTWBC works in collaboration with local, state and national workforce partners, educators and business leaders to accelerate and influence the employment of RTW talent: veterans, the long term unemployed, people with disabilities, the under-employed and opportunity youth. RTWBC aims to be the collective employer voice toward mitigating the looming skills gap by creating more inclusive hiring frameworks. RTWBC evolved out of the 2014 White House Call to Action where 300 employers signed a pledge to reconsider hiring practices toward hiring more long term unemployed jobseekers.RTW Talent Benefits:o Hiring skills-based talent helps to increase profitability by lowering hiring costso RTW employees are on average more loyal to employers resulting in lower turnover rates and higher retentiono Companies that hire RTW benefit 'from a deeper well of knowledge and experience that better speak to the needs of customers and thus broaden their markets'o RTW talent forms a large pool of up-skilled and re-skilled jobseekerso Businesses that employ workers with disabilities may be eligible for a tax credito Employees who believe management cares are more productive, satisfied and fulfilled which leads to greater profitabilityWhat You Can Do:o Join the RTWBC Advisory Boardo Advocate on behalf of a strong workforce ecosystemo Establish hiring best practices based on knowledge, skills, and abilitieso Establish relationships with workforce intermediaries o Collaborate with community colleges, certificate and credential programs and bootcamps to build middle skills talent o Design ATS systems that filter in vs filter out talent

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