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FCCF The Fund for Women and Girls Presents $20,000 Grant to TBICO!

The Fairfield County Community Foundation Fund for Women and Girls presented TBICO - The Bridge to Independence and Career Opportunities - with a $20,000 grant for their workforce development program - Better Skills. Better Jobs. Better Lives. The impact of this grant for staff support is significant, affirmed by a recent graduate, “Words cannot express the feelings I have for TBICO and the members of your staff. Keep up your mission. You are truly changing the world one woman at a time.”

TBICO provides low-income and disadvantaged women with the tools, training and supports that enable them to get better-paying employment, move into safe, affordable housing and effectively manage their resources, so they can achieve and sustain economic independence. Since 1993, TBICO has provided training and services for over three thousand women and their families. With the current state of the economy, TBICO now serves a larger range of participants from all walks of life and levels of income. This is especially true for women who despite having good educations are dealing with some of the same obstacles chronically poor women encounter – a lack of recent work experience, outdated skills, limited or obsolete work histories and access to affordable childcare, whether they are displaced homemakers, single-parent heads of households or among the newly down-sized unemployed. Case in point, “After being a work-at-home Mom for twenty years, I found myself in a position where I needed to reinvent my life, learn to support myself and return to the work force. The training, support and confidence, I am receiving here at TBICO is invaluable.”

Ms. LouAnn Bloomer, founder, President and CEO of TBICO, acknowledges, “This grant helps TBICO to be better able to meet the growing demand for services and more participants will be able to move towards better jobs and greater career opportunities, more stable housing, more competent money management capabilities and be positive role models for their daughters.”

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