City Gospel Mission
Makes a difference by serving low-income individuals with special needs and barriers to success such as homelessness, disabilities, mental illness, addiction, felonyrecords, and long-term unemployment.
Brad Trucksis
Brad Trucksis
37-year tenure at P&G in Sales, CBD & External Business Development & Global Licensing Group (North America, Europe, Asia)
Brad is a long-time donor as well as a board officer & board member at City Gospel Mission, currently serving as Treasurer. He is also involved on the programmatic side as a volunteer tutor/mentor, alongside other Trucksis family volunteers. He recently co-led development and implementation of CGM’s 1st ever stakeholder survey to measure programming effectiveness.
As a Cincinnati-based organization founded by our own James N. Gamble in 1924, City Gospel Mission has benefitted from extensive involvement from P&G alums andemployees including: Burr Robinson, Barron Witherspoon, Zeke Swift, Rodney Swope, Jeff Crull, John Allbrittin, Barry Baker, Dawn Satterwhite, Jeff Kenney, Vincent Saccente, Steve Moor, Chuck Proudfit, and John Pepper.
The poverty rate in Hamilton County, Ohio is 18% overall, and 35% among African-Americans. City Gospel Mission operates shelters, addiction recovery centers, children’s programs, as well as a career training and placement program called JobsPlus.
To learn more about City Gospel Mission, click here to visit their website.
In JobsPlus, participants attend 2-day job-readiness seminars (interviewing skills, resumes, references, and other personal skills such as overcoming fear and low self-esteem), attend a 10-week career training course, and receive one-to-one counseling and mentoring in the job search, interview, and placement process. In the last year alone, 172 people (65% of clients who completed the JobsPlus program) were placed in jobs and increased their income. 75% retained their jobs one year later.
The 2017 P&G Alumni Foundation grant of $10,000 will be used to support the existing JobsPlus program in downtown Cincinnati and to help expand the program to nearby cities Mason and Hamilton, increasing the number of people served. Goals are to have 509 participants in the program, with 218 placed in careers. Including family and community members, they estimate over 1,000 people will be positively impacted.
JobsPlus Leads to a New Home!
Robyn and Steve struggled for years in poverty. JobsPlus helped Robyn get a job at Goodwill in 2000 where she worked hard and was promoted to supervisor. JobsPlus helped Steve get a job as a mechanic in 2010. Now, because of their steady careers, they have overcome poverty and finally had the means to purchase a 3-bedroom home last year.
“It’s because of JobsPlus! To be where we are now. It’s just a blessing!” Robyn
