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Resident Employment
Opportunities Meeting Employers' Needs
The Richmond Business and Employment Development
Corporation (RBEDC) is a private, non-profit
corporation created to offer residents of
public housing the training and skills necessary
to become entrepreneurs. In addition, RBEDC
provides training, job placement, and job
retention services to residents who are
employed with the Richmond Redevelopment
and Housing Authority (RRHA), as well as
those employed with other businesses.
RBEDC also offers local employers a pool
of employees who are trained andready to
work.
Established in 1991 with a grant from the U.S Department of Housing and Urban Development (Virginia HUD office), RBEDC has worked to provide long-term
solutions to the problem of acute unemployment
in Richmond's public housing community.
Tapping the resourcefulness and initiative
of its residents, RBEDC helps low-income
individuals develop occupational skills.
The corporation is an umbrella organization,
designed to be an incubator firm for smaller,
independent resident-owned companies.
RBEDC offers employers
dependable, reliable services in
- Temporary clerical work
- Temporary laborer
- Apartment maintenance work
- Janitorial/housekeeping work
- General maintenance work
- Ground maintenance work
- Bookkeeping services work
- Word processing work
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ATTENTION EMPLOYERS!
RBEDC meets your
needs.
- Participants are trained by professionals
in their respective fields;
- Each job participant receives training
in job readiness and life skills;
- Participants are eager to learn new skills
or enhance existing ones;
- Participants are motivated
and are committed to going the extra mile!
How good is RBEDC?
- RBEDC has employed more than 300 residents.
- Through RBEDC more than 200 residents
have acquired business,
entrepreneurial and vocational skills.
- The U.S Department of Housing and Urban Development (Virginia HUD office) recognized RBEDC with
a Performance Award.
- RBEDC received a Human Service Award from
the Southeast Regional Council of the National
Association of Housing and Redevelopment
Officials (NAHRO).
-RBEDC received a NAHRO Award of Merit in
Housing and Community
Development.
CONTACT US:
Richmond Business and Employment Development
Corporation
P.O.Box 26887
Richmond, Virginia 23261-6887
(804) 780-4832
info@rrha.com
ATTENTION RESIDENTS!
RBEDC provides job training you can put
to work.
RBEDC offers four comprehensive training
plans to help you become self-sufficient
in the work force:
- Life Skills Training;
- On-the-Job Training;
- Vocational Skills Enhancement; and
- Business Development.
RBEDC also offers you the opportunity to
make the most of your training, because
you will use your new skills on the job.
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