Success Story Job Skills, Keswick

“Job Skills had been funded to deliver a Youth Entrepreneurship program in southern York Region but did not have an office location in that area at the time.  An agreement was made with COSTI (Markham) to utilize their space, resource area for participants, training room and some program support services.  The program ran in the evenings when COSTI did not utilize the training space and costs for the services and space were pre-determined.  Billing was set up between the two organizations on a pre-agreed schedule.  Job Skills benefited by being able to offer a program in an area where they were not currently providing service.  COSTI benefited by hosting a program in their space that they did not deliver but complemented many of their own services.  The clients benefited by being able to access service locally without traveling long distances and also by being able to access COSTI’s other services for their other needs.  The funder benefited by being able to provide funding to Job Skills who had a successful history of running the program in another area and not having to find another delivery agent without a track record (the funding decision to offer the program in the South was made in a very short period of time).  This assured wide-access of service for clients in a large region with no gap in service.”