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"Never doubt that a small group of individuals can change the world, indeed, it is the only thing that ever has," Margaret Mead.
The mission of the Sierra Group is to make a significant noticeable difference in the lives of the people we work with. Our corporate goal is to reverse the rate of unemployment for people with disabilities in America . This is the guiding principle that directs our actions both corporately and in our community. Click here to view select community activities.
To achieve our goals, we cannot act alone. Therefore, The Sierra Group and its team of professionals are committed to partnering with our community through financial contributions, volunteerism, and The Sierra Group's Workplace Foundation in a wide variety of ways.
- Each year 10% of Sierra Group's revenues are donated to various charitable organizations to help individuals with disabilities obtain the life skills, training, technology and supports they desire.
- Sierra Group's principal shareholders, together with our staff and family and friends founded the Sierra Group's Workplace Foundation. This private operating foundation responds to individual request for assistance, educates the community regarding life-enhancing technologies, and gives insight and expertise to our nation's leaders through its bipartisan advocacy efforts. For more information or to assist please visit www.workplacefoundation.org.
- Realizing that time and expertise are sometimes more valuable than money, Sierra Group's CEO Janet Fiore dedicates 20% of her work each year to volunteerism including regional, state and national board participation, speaking and public outreach activities that fall in line with her personal mission and corporate stand.
- As an entrepreneurial woman with a disability this CEO encourages and affords her team members the chance to do the same.
- Corporately Sierra Group donates in excess of 800 hours of community service each year to organizations and individuals whose efforts are in line with the guiding principles that drive this corporation.
The Sierra Group Inc. is joining with AIG to host a Mentoring Event for Job Seekers with Disabilities
On
2/20/08, The Sierra Group Inc. is joining with AIG to host a Mentoring
Event for Job Seekers with Disabilities. The focus of the event will
be matching Job Seekers who are interested in business careers to current AIG
employees who are performing positions where the job duties are the same or
similar to the Job Seeker's goals.
Click here for more information about AIG Mentoring Day.
employmentincentives.com:
The Sierra Group and the Sierra Group's
Workplace Foundation have 
worked
jointly to sponsor, create and maintain an employer focused website employmentincentives.com.
This site provides a one stop means for an employer to gain ready access to
a vast array of information and forms to use when applying for the myriad of
hiring incentives that exist when a business employs or retains a person with
a disability. Designed to simplify access to such incentives employmentIncentives.com
has both Federal and State - Pennsylvania forms available. Additional states
will be added in the future so be sure to sign
up for the Newsletter or to
request an Employment Incentives Workshop at your location.
Over 16,000 people attended Disability Mentoring Day events across the nation. The program that was created to promote career development for students and job seekers with disabilities through job shadowing, hands-on career exploration and other employment related activities. The Sierra Group Inc., a full service disability management firm in King of Prussia, has served as the Eastern PA Regional Coordinator for this event over the past 5 years. This year they were joined by Wachovia who offered to host the interactive mentoring event at their Center City Philadelphia headquarters. Read more about the recent Disability Mentoring Day.
The National Breakfast Club:
The
National Breakfast Club©, a program of the Sierra Group's Workplace Foundation
that is financially supported by The Sierra Group, connects jobseekers with
disabilities to business leaders in communities around the country. This program
was founded on a model conducted in eastern Pennsylvania (suburban and urban
regions). It has proven to be a low cost, high impact program with outcomes
geared towards 1) connecting job seekers directly via personal introduction to
relevant job openings; and 2) cross education between member businesses and
the largest pool of unemployed workers in America. The ‘connectedness’ that
results in win-win placements.
For more information, or to start a National Breakfast Club in your hometown,
contact Janet Fiore CEO of
The Sierra Group and Director of Community Outreach and Governmental Affairs
for the Foundation. She may be reached at 800.973.7687, or info@thesierragroup.com.
Learn how you and your organization can get involved, by downloading a brochure on the National Breakfast Club. 
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Sierra Group lauded in Public Private Partnership:
OVeRVIEW
is a monthly online publication with news and events of interest to customers
of the Office of Vocational Rehabilitation and Pennsylvanians with disabilities.
This issue of OVeRVIEW celebrates the collaborative public-private efforts of
The Sierra Group, Liberty Resources, and OVR. Click on the thumbnail image or
text link below to read or download the newsletter.
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