FORGE CITY WORKS
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Mission Statement
Forge City Works (formerly known as Billings Forge Community Works) provides job training, food access, and sustainable social enterprises to help people change their lives.
About This Cause
Since 2007, we have focused not on what our neighborhoods are missing, but what is already there. We have built on the skills and vitality of talented residents to construct an infrastructure of promise. We have partnered with wise and experienced community leaders to shape programs serving children and families. And we have used the delicious benefits of fresh food to spur investment, support, good health and future employment for the entire community. Forge City Works is shaping sustainable tools, programs and resources. We are coordinating efforts to develop leaders within the community and building bridges to resources and friends outside of it. We have learned lessons and perfected methods in Frog Hollow that we are now employing across the city: - The Kitchen at Billings Forge now has a sister, The Kitchen at Hartford Public Library, where we run another café and catering operations! - Job training that began on a shoestring — and served just those living at Billings Forge — now enjoys support from Community Partners in Action, Open Hearth, Journey Home, Easter Seals, Goodwill, the Governor’s Second Chance Initiative and is thus able to accept job referrals from all across the city! - The Summer Farmers Market, developed to bring fresh food to our neighbors in Frog Hollow, now feeds families across the city thanks to our double valuing of food subsidies, a federal SNAP grant and bus service supported by the Hartford and Aetna. - We gather neighbors together to break bread, share resources, and advocate around issues of food access, food justice and food security, and neighborhood challenges, resulting in real change The heart of our effort–using the wonders of food to nourish our neighbors and provide them with opportunity–still beats powerfully in Frog Hollow. But the impact of FCW’s strength and vitality is widening, reaching out to new neighbors and communities across the city, bringing opportunities for growth, good health, personal success and family stability to hundreds of households each year.