Juma Ventures

Business employment: earn: Juma operates concession businesses in professional sports and entertainment venues to provide meaningful employment experiences to youth from underserved communities. Youth are employed for the length of a sports season (approximately six months), complete approximately 150 hours work experience and earn an average of $2,000. While at Juma, they master soft and hard skills, and build core competencies in customer service sales and business operations.

Workforce resources:learn: alongside the job, youth are supported by a program coordinator, focused on helping them overcome personal barriers to successful permanent employment and mastery of crucial skills like communication, professionalism, personal accountability, teamwork, problem-solving and leadership skills, all in a growth-minded framework. Youth participate in a series of job search skills workshops such as resume writing and mock interviews and go on career tours that expose them to a broad range of career pathways such as advanced manufacturing, healthcare and aviation. With the support of their personal coordinator, youth identify and attain strengths-based short-term and long-term personal, financial, education and career goals in an individual development plan (idp). Connect: to connect youth to their next job and sustained employment, Juma partners with corporations primarily in the retail, hospitality, food service and logistics industries such as amazon, costco, cvs health, gap Inc., mod pizza, southwest airlines, starbucks, and ups. Once a young adult is hired, Juma's career coach provides 90 days of continued support to ensure retention success. Retention support takes the form of continued soft skills coaching, and understanding our industry partner's career mobility pathways. By ensuring that youth understand the job expectations, manage any budding conflicts, and receive proper training, Juma is able to increase the chances that our youth will succeed.