The Doe Fund Blog
Through The Doe Fund’s partnership with the City Cleanup Corps, we are able to extend the paid work opportunities and supportive services of Ready, Willing & Able to people living outside of our residences. This means, for the first time ever, we are able to provide these crucial interventions to women. Though such work programs […]
Our street cleaning program—known as the Community Improvement Project (CIP) and represented by the iconic Men and Blue—is undeniably the most well-known of our social enterprises. But how did CIP begin… and what lies ahead? The fundamental principle behind The Doe Fund is that the majority of people experiencing homelessness and leaving incarceration want to, […]
Over the years, our Community Improvement Project has grown dramatically; currently, the Men in Blue cover over 115 miles of city streets each day. This growth is in large part due to partnerships with local Business Improvement Districts (BIDs) that contract the Men in Blue to provide supplemental sanitation services to their neighborhoods. BIDs understand […]
This time last year, predictions were dire for NYC. The COVID-19 pandemic, which has taken over 53,000 lives in the city alone, also unleashed an economic crisis as scores of businesses shuttered and unemployment reached the highest levels since the Great Depression. The financial hardship led to funding cuts to the Department of Sanitation, and […]
New York, NY— The Doe Fund announced that it received a $350,000 donation from Sony Corporation of America (SCA), which will go to supporting the nonprofit’s commitment to ending mass incarceration while supporting its new culinary arts and skilled trade job training programs. The donation is part of a larger social justice campaign, and comes […]
NEW YORK, NY— On Wednesday, April 28th, New York City’s Mayoral candidates celebrated over 200 formerly homeless and incarcerated men who have obtained full-time employment and permanent housing through The Doe Fund’s Ready, Willing & Able program. Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams, former Commissioner for the New York City Sanitation Department Kathryn Garcia, and City […]
When it comes to the workforce development landscape, the impact of COVID-19 cannot be overstated. The success of our programs this year come in spite of these tremendous obstacles—a testament to the transformative power of opportunity, the potential within the men we serve, and the efficacy of the Work Works model. COVID-19 has hit the […]
Isabel McDevitt has hit the ground running as our new Executive Vice President, with a full slate of exciting initiatives underway. She recently shared her thoughts on returning to The Doe Fund’s leadership team, including her goal to scale Ready, Willing & Able‘s “Work Works” reentry model nationally. Q: Tell us about your journey to The […]
As a new administration and Congress takes shape, we hope to see a renewed commitment to criminal justice reform and to reentry programs that address the underlying causes of homelessness and recidivism. As a leader in the field, The Doe Fund has a responsibility to offer real, bipartisan solutions. Below, we have laid out the […]
The new property will allow 200 additional homeless men to begin their journey toward self-sufficiency through the organization’s award-winning Ready Willing & Able program. New York, NY— The Doe Fund announced that it recently acquired 510 Gates Avenue in the Bedford Stuyvesant neighborhood in Brooklyn. The site is adjacent to 520 Gates Avenue, the […]