Page 10 - EMBERS 2020 Annual Report

EMBERS Staffing Solutions
With a mission to help people rediscover hope and self-sufficiency through meaningful work opportunities, our social enterprise, EMBERS Staffing Solutions, launched in 2008 and provides a strategic, innovative and business approach to addressing socio-economic challenges of people facing barriers to employment. For 13 years, EMBERS Staffing has provided temporary and long-term placements that have helped individuals transform their lives. EMBERS Staffing is self-sustaining and invests 100% of its profits back into the community through higher hourly wages, equipment and training for workers.
In January 2020, EMBERS opened a New Westminster branch, as an addition to its operations in Vancouver, Surrey and Fraser Valley. EMBERS Staffing is expanding
its reach and its business sectors! In 2020, EMBERS Staffing made significant inroads into the warehousing sector. Purolator became a major partner, hiring hundreds of workers in its distribution centre during the Christmas season and ongoing, as a result of exponential growth in on-line sales this year. The pandemic also opened up new jobs in sanitizing and helping with social distancing on construction sites. At year end, all branches were operating in the black, including the new New Westminster branch which was budgeted at a loss for year one. In 2020, we were awarded a $50K grant from the City of Vancouver to assist us in upgrading our software systems, which we are to roll out in early 2021.
Impact
2500 People approximately placed on job sites
Grossed in sales revenue (up 26% from 2019)
$11.8 Million
$14.62 Million
Paid in wages and benefits to workers (up 29% from 2019)
Employed full time equivalents 224
$20.16 Average pay
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