Jesse SchecknerSeptember 19, 2023
9min0
More than $83M has been cleared for spending through 2026.
Tag: Operation New Hope
Jesse SchecknerSeptember 19, 2023
Wes WolfeOctober 12, 2022
4min0
It's an involved process.
A.G. GancarskiJuly 25, 2019
4min831
The VP loves the friendly Jacksonville press.
Phil AmmannMay 11, 2017
3min270
Gwen Graham’s latest Workday focused on efforts to find affordable housing, workforce training and family reintegration for ex-offenders. The newly announced Democratic candidate for governor worked Wednesday with Operation New Hope in Jacksonville. “The ex-offenders I met today are working to put their lives back on track. They just want a second chance at becoming […]
A.G. GancarskiJanuary 18, 2017
3min389
A bill strengthening requirements that companies doing business with the city of Jacksonville hire ex-offenders was filed in Jacksonville’s city council on Wednesday. Ordinance 2016-35, filed by Councilman Garrett Dennis, is the councilman’s second ambitious piece of legislation currently live. Two weeks ago, Dennis filed a bill to fund a currently unfunded position in the Equal Opportunity/Equal Access […]
Julie DelegalNovember 8, 20158min656
Kevin Gay is president and founder of a groundbreaking organization that puts nonviolent ex-offenders back into the workforce. His nonprofit mission, Operation New Hope, started with a question: “When are guys like you going to get it?” The question came from his Episcopal priest, Davette Turk, who wanted him to see that serving others didn’t […]
A.G. GancarskiApril 7, 2015
4min201
On a sunny Tuesday morning in Springfield, Jacksonville Mayor Alvin Brown came together with community leaders for a groundbreaking on a 14-unit apartment building on West Eighth Street, in an area city leaders have been trying to revitalize for decades. The multifamily apartment building, called the Dozier apartments (named after architect Henrietta Dozier) was designed […]