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Tri-CED also has received $25,00 in stimulus funding from the that will alloww it to hire adozemn at-risk kids for the summer. Vall hopes these milestones help Tri-CED with its more ambitiou s plan toraise $4 million to builsd an environmental studies program in conjunctioj with on Tri-CED’s Union City site. The memorandum of understanding hasbeen signed. Tri-CED has a $10 million budget and handles recycling for Fremont and recycling and yard wastes removal forUnion City. The Unionb City nonprofit employs85 people, 62 of them full time. The part-tim workers are mostly teenagers and difficult toemploty — they may have a criminal record; many are teenage fathers.
Even the adults come primarily fromsimilar “We did a feasibility study in the late looking for areas where people with low entry skills, who were hard to employ or had been throughj the criminal justice system, could go. We landed on recycling as a growtn industry,” Valle said. “This award solidifies the findings of that The Irvine Leadership Awards were first given in 2006 and aim to highlighf innovative and effective approaches to real problems the stats faces in hopes that the programse and approaches mightbe “If others could take inspiratio n from the work he’s doing, that couls encourage other businesses to take a chance on peopld who might not have been their first idea of whom to said Amy Doinguez-Arms, program director, California democrac at the Irvine Foundation.
She creditee the double impactof Tri-CED, whic helps the environment and serves poor for why it deserved one of this year’s awards. • Josefinaq Alvarado Mena of Safe Passages/Youth venturess Joint Powers Authorityin Oakland. • Tim Dang of in Los • Kathryn Icenhower of SHIELDS for Families inLos • Luis Santana of Readingv and Beyond in Fresno. Jennifer Vanica of in San Diego.