Project JumpStart is an 87-hour pre-apprenticeship training program that provides intensive classroom and hands-on training to Baltimore City residents every year. Their mission is to train low-income city residents to enter the building trades on a construction career track that will help them advance beyond the entry-level.
unCUFFED Ministries is focused on breaking down silos in the community of good works.
Project Jumpstart and Associated Builders and Contractors are equipping men with skills to suceed in life.
The Greek word koinōnia is translated in the Bible in many ways: partnership, fellowship, contribution, and communion. The word implies an intimacy in striving together to work towards the same goal.
At unCUFFED, our goal is to secure the eternity of the boys and girls we serve but also to meet their current and even secular needs. Jesus fed people and healed the sick to prepare them to clearly receive His message. We want to do the same and we don’t want to recreate the wheel. When we can find partnerships with other workers in the field, we want to draw closer to them, to strive together in koinōnia.
What most of our kids need is a good job when they are released. A job with a future and a hope of advancement. This is not possible without skills, soft skills about how to be a mature and responsible worker along with hard skills, a trade, that makes them valuable to their employer.
unCUFFED has partnered with the Associated Builders and Contractors of Greater Baltimore and Project Jumpstart for many years but now, with reentry on our minds, we are ramping up our efforts to have our young people trained and placed in jobs with contractors whose vision aligns with ours.
This is the grand vision: with private investment funds, friends of unCUFFED have started a new Real Estate venture purchasing and rehabilitating houses in Baltimore. This vision arose from seeing Johns Hopkins decimating city neighborhoods near their medical campus by ‘gentrifying’ block after block, pushing out working class city residents to attract doctors and nurses into expensive new housing. Our friends’ business mission, which lines up with a ministry mission, is to purchase empty homes and restore them to improve the housing stock in Baltimore for working class families while also creating jobs for those coming home from jail and leaving drug and alcohol rehab facilities.
A key part of this effort will be partnering with ABC and Jumpstart to train the young men coming home and then hopefully having them placed with subcontractors who would be hired for the rehabilitation projects.
Please pray for unCUFFED and for our friends’ Real Estate venture as we continue to partner with others in fellowship to secure eternities and meet current needs.
“… I pray that the fellowship of your faith may become effective through the knowledge of every good thing which is in you for the sake of Christ.” – Philemon 1:6
Project JumpStart is an 87-hour pre-apprenticeship training program that provides intensive classroom and hands-on training to Baltimore City residents every year. Their mission is to train low-income city residents to enter the building trades on a construction career track that will help them advance beyond the entry-level.
unCUFFED Ministries is focused on breaking down silos in the community of good works.
Project Jumpstart and Associated Builders and Contractors are equipping men with skills to suceed in life.
The Greek word koinōnia is translated in the Bible in many ways: partnership, fellowship, contribution, and communion. The word implies an intimacy in striving together to work towards the same goal.
At unCUFFED, our goal is to secure the eternity of the boys and girls we serve but also to meet their current and even secular needs. Jesus fed people and healed the sick to prepare them to clearly receive His message. We want to do the same and we don’t want to recreate the wheel. When we can find partnerships with other workers in the field, we want to draw closer to them, to strive together in koinōnia.
What most of our kids need is a good job when they are released. A job with a future and a hope of advancement. This is not possible without skills, soft skills about how to be a mature and responsible worker along with hard skills, a trade, that makes them valuable to their employer.
unCUFFED has partnered with the Associated Builders and Contractors of Greater Baltimore and Project Jumpstart for many years but now, with reentry on our minds, we are ramping up our efforts to have our young people trained and placed in jobs with contractors whose vision aligns with ours.
This is the grand vision: with private investment funds, friends of unCUFFED have started a new Real Estate venture purchasing and rehabilitating houses in Baltimore. This vision arose from seeing Johns Hopkins decimating city neighborhoods near their medical campus by ‘gentrifying’ block after block, pushing out working class city residents to attract doctors and nurses into expensive new housing. Our friends’ business mission, which lines up with a ministry mission, is to purchase empty homes and restore them to improve the housing stock in Baltimore for working class families while also creating jobs for those coming home from jail and leaving drug and alcohol rehab facilities.
A key part of this effort will be partnering with ABC and Jumpstart to train the young men coming home and then hopefully having them placed with subcontractors who would be hired for the rehabilitation projects.
Please pray for unCUFFED and for our friends’ Real Estate venture as we continue to partner with others in fellowship to secure eternities and meet current needs.
“… I pray that the fellowship of your faith may become effective through the knowledge of every good thing which is in you for the sake of Christ.” – Philemon 1:6
unCUFFED Ministries is focused on breaking down silos in the community of good works.
Project Jumpstart and Associated Builders and Contractors are equipping men with skills to suceed in life.
The Greek word koinōnia is translated in the Bible in many ways: partnership, fellowship, contribution, and communion. The word implies an intimacy in striving together to work towards the same goal.
At unCUFFED, our goal is to secure the eternity of the boys and girls we serve but also to meet their current and even secular needs. Jesus fed people and healed the sick to prepare them to clearly receive His message. We want to do the same and we don’t want to recreate the wheel. When we can find partnerships with other workers in the field, we want to draw closer to them, to strive together in koinōnia.
What most of our kids need is a good job when they are released. A job with a future and a hope of advancement. This is not possible without skills, soft skills about how to be a mature and responsible worker along with hard skills, a trade, that makes them valuable to their employer.
unCUFFED has partnered with the Associated Builders and Contractors of Greater Baltimore and Project Jumpstart for many years but now, with reentry on our minds, we are ramping up our efforts to have our young people trained and placed in jobs with contractors whose vision aligns with ours.
This is the grand vision: with private investment funds, friends of unCUFFED have started a new Real Estate venture purchasing and rehabilitating houses in Baltimore. This vision arose from seeing Johns Hopkins decimating city neighborhoods near their medical campus by ‘gentrifying’ block after block, pushing out working class city residents to attract doctors and nurses into expensive new housing. Our friends’ business mission, which lines up with a ministry mission, is to purchase empty homes and restore them to improve the housing stock in Baltimore for working class families while also creating jobs for those coming home from jail and leaving drug and alcohol rehab facilities.
A key part of this effort will be partnering with ABC and Jumpstart to train the young men coming home and then hopefully having them placed with subcontractors who would be hired for the rehabilitation projects.
Please pray for unCUFFED and for our friends’ Real Estate venture as we continue to partner with others in fellowship to secure eternities and meet current needs.
“… I pray that the fellowship of your faith may become effective through the knowledge of every good thing which is in you for the sake of Christ.” – Philemon 1:6