PVJOBS 2015 Annual Report

PVJOBS

2015 ANNUAL REPORT

Playa Vista
Job Opportunities and

Business Services

PVJOBS - Building the Future

PVJOBS continued ing or exceeding the METRO goal of 40
activities and advocacy
efforts on behalf of Los percent targeted hiring from designated
Angeles’ local and disadvan-
taged populations in 2015. As high unemployment zip codes; 20 percent
the Playa Vista development
comes closer to completion, hiring of apprentices; and 10 percent hiring
the organization continues
to reach out to other projects of disadvantaged persons who have barriers
throughout Greater Los Angeles,
urging developers to con- to employment, which can include chronic
sider establishing Project Labor
Agreements (PLAs) that include unemployment, involvement with the jus-
hiring from the local zip codes
and from the PVJOBS at-risk tice system or service in the U.S. military.
participant database.
The project also has the highest African
Playa Vista contractors
continued to work with American worker participation than any of USC, this is the most ambitious construc-
PVJOBS, hiring many work-
the current METRO projects and is at 17%. tion effort in university history. The 1.2
ers through the program.
Overall their percentage Metro is the nation’s first transit agency to million-square-foot development sits on
remains above their 10% adopt a PLA with national targeting hiring 15 acres just north of the campus. It will
goals for a federally funded, Federal Transit include a Target store and a Trader Joe’s
commitment to hire the market. The residential-retail project is on
at-risk in the building Administration-approved project valued
of the project and is over $2.5 billion. PVJOBS oversees the rail track to open in the fall of 2017.

currently at 11.1%. line’s local, zip code-targeted and disadvan- The Right Turn program servicing youth
taged worker hiring program. who are at-risk and/or involved with the
Metro and Walsh/
Shea Corridor Metro was named “Visionary of the Year” juvenile justice system was also eminently
Constructors are at PVJOBS’ fall recognition luncheon for
their commitment to providing employment successful. Funded by the DOL through
continuing with opportunities to local, disadvantaged an intermediary (Institute for Educational
the Crenshaw/ residents. The Crenshaw/LAX rail line has Leadership) and in its second year of
LAX Transit operation, the program continues to
Project and employed 65 PVJOBS participants so far, exceed all educational and employment
and will be operational in 2019.
are meet- performance goals. The PVJOBS Right Turn
program is the top preforming program

Another project PVJOBS worked with in nationally under this funding stream.

2015 was the Wilshire Grand Center, a Through 2015, PVJOBS continued to pro-

billion-dollar project that has an all-union vide free Tech Math training each quarter
PLA with the Los Angeles/Orange Counties to participants interested in joining the
Building Trades. This structure, the tall- electricians’ union. Eligibility to take the
est building west of the Mississippi, will electricians union entrance exam includes
include 73 stories, and has become a successful completion of high school or

symbol of Southern California’s construc- college algebra. Completion of the Tech
tion resurgence. The site made front-page Math class satisfies that requirement, and
headlines around the world in 2014, with the knowledge attained is also useful in
a Guinness Would Record grand concrete other MEP trades exams such as sheet
foundation pour. metal. Over 70% of those enrolling in the

One of the largest construction projects in class ultimately are successful in joining a
the history of South Los Angeles, the USC union and going to work.

Village, has hired 54 PVJOBS participants The PVJOBS recognition luncheon
so far, starting with demolition of the old “Hopes Realized ~ Dreams Fulfilled”

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PVJOBS STATISTICS
2015 by the Numbers Ethnic Demographics of
Those Employed
250 600 justice system. received a high
These youth are school diploma ASIAN:
Tests given Thanksgiving now receiving GOAL: 60%
to qualify Turkeys handed supportive, n Total Employed: 30
participants out as part of educational 63% n Percentage of Total Employed: .6%
for the a community and workforce n Percentage in Database: 0.2%
Electricians Pre- support parking development (ages 18 and
apprenticeship lot give-away services. up) participants
Math Classes. to PVJOBS received an AFRICAN AMERICAN:
Taught by neighbors 61% Industry
the Electrical in South Los Recognized n Total Employed: 3036
Training Angeles. (ages 17 Certification n Percentage of Total Employed: 60.1%
Institute at and under) GOAL: 60% n Percentage in Database: 64.4%
PVJOBS, class 253 participants
completion remained in 82%
satisfies Young high school for FILIPINO:
the algebra participants 12 months (ages18 and
requirement enrolled in GOAL: 50% up) participants n Total Employed: 2
to apply for an Right Turn, our received n Percentage of Total Employed: <0.1%
apprenticeship youth program 70% employment/ n Percentage in Database: <0.1%
program in the for those who post-secondary
Electricians have had (ages 17 outcomes LATINO:
involvement and under) GOAL: 60%
Union. in the juvenile participants n Total Employed: 1609
n Percentage of Total Employed: 31.9%
Overall Number of Positions Filled (May, 1998 – Dec., 2015): 7,119 n Percentage in Database: 27.5%
Totals
Currently Active Candidates: 17,797 NATIVE AMERICAN:

Currently Working: 637 n Total Employed: 44
n Percentage of Total Employed: 0.9%
Number of CBOs Partnered: 135 n Percentage in Database: 0.9%

Playa At-Risk Goal/Attainment: 10% / 11.2% PACIFIC ISLANDER:
Vista Total Number of Work Hours by 1,412,022
At-Risk Clients: n Total Employed: 9
(May 1998 - December n Percentage of Total Employed: 0.2%
31, 2015) n Percentage in Database: 0.4%

Construction Trades in PVJOBS Database WHITE:

(to December 31, 2015) n Total Employed: 298
n Percentage of Total Employed: 5.9%
Carpenters: 4313 Painters: 1922 n Percentage in Database: 5.2%

Flooring/Carpet Layers: 212 Plasterers: 363 OTHER:

Concrete Masons/Finishers: 541 Plumbers: 1717 n Total Employed: 19
n Percentage of Total Employed: 0.4%
Electricians: 1701 Roofers: 526 n Percentage in Database 1.1%

Iron Workers: 581 Sheet Metal Workers: 211

Laborers: 11445 Plumbers: 1717

Tile/Marble/Brick Masons: 1020 Roofers: 526

Operating Engineers: 464 Sheet Metal Workers: 211

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continued from page 2 is Darryl Foster, a U.S. Veteran, who was dis- program that includes a goal of 40 per-
Angeles and L.A. Eighth District City charged from the Navy at the height of the cent targeted hiring from designated high
Councilman Marqueece Harris-Dawson recession, but is now a painter with Duggan unemployment zip codes and 10 percent
gave the keynote speech. and Associates. Linda Wright received hiring of disadvantaged persons who have
the Visionary of the Year award on behalf barriers to employment, including those
Pictured from left, are Ricardo Mixon, of the Los Angeles County Metropolitan who are chronically unemployed; have had
a 17-year-old former juvenile offender. Transportation Authority (Metro) for their involvement with the justice system; or are
The Right Turn youth program at PVJOBS implementation of local/disadvantaged U.S. Veterans.
helped Mixon through subsidized employ- hire policies on all of their construction
ment and he is back in school. Next to him projects. At far right is Mike Daniel From The new, 8.5-mile, $2 billion light-rail project
Largo Concrete, Inc., who picked up the will travel through the Crenshaw District,
Contractor of the Year award on behalf of Inglewood, Westchester and the LAX area,
his company because they’ve hired more creating more than 18,000 jobs by the time
than 100 employees from the PVJOBS pro- it’s operational in 2019.
gram as carpenters, masons and laborers
for Playa Vista, USC Village and a variety of As the Port of Los Angeles, Hollywood Park,
other projects. the L.A. River, Wilshire Grand Hotel and
other Los Angeles-area developments pro-
Metro and Walsh/Shea Corridor ceed, PVJOBS anticipates career-orientated
Constructors, in partnership with PVJOBS job placements to transform thousands of
and the collaborative, have initiated a jobs additional lives in the coming years.

PVJOBS STATEMENT OF ACTIVITIES

For The Year Ended December 31, 2015
(Audited; with comparative totals for the year ended December 31, 2015)

2015 2014

REVENUE

Contracts and Grants $ 1,086,588 $ 1,986,126

Government Contacts 528,551 378,114

Contributions 180,229 67,097

Other Income 30,722 7,042
Total Revenue 1,826,090 2,448,379

EXPENSES

Program Services 1,475,402 2,135,534

Management and General 422,723 475,882

Fundraising 53,663 48,221
Total Expenses 1,951,788 2,659,637

Change in Net Assets Before Amortization of Note Payable (125,698) (211,258)
100,000 100,000

Amortization of Note Payable (111,258)

Changes in Net Assets (25,698)

Net Assets, Beginning of Year 2,325,899 2,437,157
Net Assets, End of Year $ 2,300,201 $ 2,325,899

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