Watering Seeds Foundation
MISSION
The Watering Seeds Foundation focuses on helping underestimated, untapped, and first-generation populations transition successfully into the workplace, providing a safety net and support, positioning them for long-term economic self-sustainability.
The Watering Seeds Foundation will support selected individuals, cohorts, and communities by supplying group coaching, individual coaching, and access to professional development resources. The intent is to assist each individual transition into their workplace, become comfortable and stable, get questions answered about their new environment, develop appropriate skills and competencies, and succeed.
In turn, organizations and corporations get access to well-prepared, supported, capable and qualified young individuals from diverse communities, fully prepared to work, advance in their careers, and succeed. This improves recruiting and retention, reduces costs, and improves the overall organizational balance.
In combination, the Watering Seeds programs encourage a “virtuous cycle,” where participants of the program, through their individual successes, are in a position to support and sponsor additional programs.
POPULATIONS SERVED
Adult Population
- Individuals seeking to secure a better job
- Individuals with a criminal record (not previously incarcerated)
- Individuals with disabilities
- Refugees
- Returning citizens (previously incarcerated)
Languages Supported
- Spanish
Geography
- Banks County
- Barrow County
- Bartow County
- Butts County
- Carroll County
- Catoosa County
- Chattooga County
- Cherokee County
- City of Atlanta
- Clayton County
- Cobb County
- Coweta County
- Dade County
- Dawson County
- DeKalb County
- Douglas County
- Fayette County
- Floyd County
- Forsyth County
- Franklin County
- Fulton County
- Fulton County - North Fulton
- Fulton County - South Fulton
- Gilmer County
- Gordon County
- Gwinnett County
- Hall County
- Haralson County
- Hart County
- Heard County
- Henry County
- Jasper County
- Lamar County
- Lumpkin County
- Meriwether County
- Morgan County
- Murray County
- Newton County
- Paulding County
- Pickens County
- Pike County
- Polk County
- Rockdale County
- Spalding County
- Statewide
- Troup County
- Upson County
- Walker County
- Walton County
- White County
- Whitfield County
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Eligibility Restrictions
Watering Seeds Foundation works with partner organizations to identify program participants. The primary population served is untapped and first-generation young adults recently graduating or graduated from college (4-year, 2-year, trade or technical) to provide assistance and support as they move from school into the workforce.
SERVICES PROVIDED
Job Search & Placement
- Job performance coaching
- Mentoring
- Virtual services available
Post-employment Services
- Career development services
- Job performance coaching
- Mentoring
- Post-placement follow-up
- Virtual services available
Soft Skills Training
- Adaptability
- Behavior modification
- Collaborating with others
- Communication (verbal and written)
- Conflict management
- Customer service
- Dealing with diversity
- Decision making
- Emotional intelligence
- Goal setting
- How to dress
- Interpersonal skills
- Leadership
- Managing stress
- Personal branding
- Planning / organizational skills
- Professional conduct
- Self confidence
- Time management
- Varied soft skills training