JFYNetWorks, formerly Jobs for Youth, was founded in 1976 to help inner-city high-school dropouts find jobs. Today it is much more than that; it works at the interface between industry's increasingly specialized needs and the skills-deficient labor pool, adapting as they change to enable a useful flow of unemployed workers into the job market while working to narrow the academic achievement gap between inner-city schools and their peers. In the '70s it developed a tutoring program; in the '80s a full GED course, a youth entrepreneurship program, an alternative high school diploma and a specialized reading program; in 2000 it developed a computerized academic tutoring program called JFYNet, which provides training at 30 schools and community-based organizations and serves 2,500 annually. A March 2004 Boston Globe editorial cited JFYNetWorks' program as job training that works. Graduates have starting salaries as high as $35,000 with full benefits! The US Environmental Protection Agency chose its environmental technology program (average starting salary: $21,500) as one of 10 national pilot projects. So if you want to make this kind of difference, support and work with JFYNetWorks.