What does 1,000 graduates mean to you? If you’ve been part of the CrossPurpose family for our first 1,000 graduates, drop your favorite memory below. Then buckle up - next 1,000 here we come! 🚀
CrossPurpose
Professional Training and Coaching
Denver, Colorado 1,613 followers
Abolishing economic, relational, and spiritual poverty through career and community development in Denver
About us
CrossPurpose offers a free 6-month career and community development program aiming to abolish spiritual, economic, and relational poverty in Denver and beyond. We recruit and select neighbors--called Leaders--who are ready to do whatever it takes to attain financial self-sufficiency. We then provide Leaders with personal and professional training, build a supportive community around each one, and help place the Leader in a career path that pays $22/hour or more.
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https://www.crosspurpose.org
External link for CrossPurpose
- Industry
- Professional Training and Coaching
- Company size
- 51-200 employees
- Headquarters
- Denver, Colorado
- Type
- Nonprofit
- Founded
- 2014
- Specialties
- community development, poverty abolition, career development, career training, career program, nonprofit, career coaching, career guidance, education, career school, and vocational school
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3050 Richard Allen Ct
Denver, Colorado 80205, US
Employees at CrossPurpose
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Boris Katsnelson
M&A Services for the Lower Middle Market | Former CEO Franchising, Trades, Consumer Products, Real Estate | Helping to Abolish Poverty | Serving…
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John Livingston
Accounting and Supply Chain professional; destroyer of stereotypes; CPA testing in 2025
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Nancy Slyter
Senior Philanthropy Advisor at CrossPurpose
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Katharine Reece
Experienced Fundraiser | Storyteller | Writing Coach
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This is the mentality that leads to 1,000 graduates 🎓 Join us tonight at our South Metro campus for a special graduation celebration from 6:00-8:00 pm! RSVP to attend: https://lnkd.in/dpZB8Rpd
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Here's How: These graduates are mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers, and neighbors. Their success extends beyond them and into their families. That’s why we calculate that for every graduate who enters a new career, 2.5 more people are lifted out of poverty as a by-product. Give today to support free career training for grads to come: https://lnkd.in/gMAW_54j
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We were honored to host this group dedicated to growing and mobilizing Colorado's workforce!
Founder & CEO at Colorado Equitable Economic Mobility Initiative (CEEMI), and City Councilor elected to represent Lakewood’s Ward 3.
We're SO energized at the Colorado Equitable Economic Mobility Initiative (CEEMI), after our Colorado Workforce Convening on Friday, a timely deep dive conversation with Colorado's two U.S. Senators on how to strengthen our workforce development and job-training ecosystems. Big thanks to Charles E. D. at the Keystone Policy Center, for co-convening the discussion with us, and to CrossPurpose for doing a great job hosting, including Mkale Warner, Jason Janz, Cara Ward Hambrick & Josh Ryken + many other great team members. Thanks also to Gary Community Ventures and The Attainment Network for sponsoring. We heard directly from Senator Michael Bennet and Senator John Hickenlooper re their legislative workforce priorities. The Senators also heard directly from and met with a number of different learners and participants in the various programs represented. With Senator Hickenlooper sitting on the key Senate Committee expected to mark up the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) in the coming months - the first time in 10 years this key federal law is on track to be reauthorized! - this was especially timely. And we're also encouraged by Senator Bennet's Better Jobs through Evidence and Innovation Act, creating a new tiered evidence/innovation workforce fund, which we hope to see incorporated into the WIOA reauthorization. Our U.S. Senators heard from Mkale at CrossPurpose, Lee Wheeler-Berliner at Colorado Workforce Development Council, Tony Anderson at Denver Economic Development & Opportunity, Noel Ginsburg at CareerWise USA/CareerWise Colorado, Sarah Heath at Colorado Community College System, Jessica Valand at Results for America (previously oversaw CO's rural central mountain workforce region), Luis Antezana from Juntos Community, Kathryn Harris from ActivateWork, Becca Montgomery representing Reach University, Josh Blair from Kanso Software, Lauren Trent at AdvanceEDU, Iesha Mitchell with Invest in Kids, & Scott Flores from The Master's Apprentice Program. And big thank you to CEEMI rockstar team members Jessica Corvinus and Dave Anderson and CEEMI advisory board member Perla Bustillos Gutierrez who helped us pull this all off. At CEEMI, we continue to believe in the value of bringing key policymakers together with the innovators and participants of Colorado's workforce and postsecondary systems, in pursuit of meaningful reforms to measurably improve wage/employment outcomes for the learners they serve. This was a promising discussion with some encouraging takeaways and next steps. A few pictures below. Onward!
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At our May 15 graduation, we will celebrate a major milestone – 1,000 all-time graduates! To celebrate, we're asking our community to raise $1,000 through peer-to-peer fundraising. Create your fundraising page in 30 seconds and share the CrossPurpose mission with your family and friends: https://lnkd.in/gxiT4xBH
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Meet the newest Members of the CrossPurpose Employer Network! At CrossPurpose, our mission is to break cycles of poverty through holistic community development and career training. Partnering with these companies will help us provide job connections that allow our graduates to enter a growth-oriented career. Haynes Mechanical Systems WCG Construction Winn-Marion Companies Tepeyac Community Health Center Christian Living Communities #Partnership #CommunityEmpowerment #BreakingBarriers #Opportunity
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Get ready for ALL the pasta and (award-winning) pizza! CrossPurpose is grateful to long-time partner Mici Italian for selecting us as the recipient of their dine-to-donate day on Tuesday, May 7th. Dine in or order out at any of Mici’s Colorado locations and 20% of the proceeds will benefit CrossPurpose, allowing us to continue providing our life-changing career training services free-of-charge. Don’t forget to mention “GIVEBACK” or enter it as a code when you order online or via the Toast app—and know that your meal is making a difference for your neighbors. https://lnkd.in/eWTU5HgH
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For the fourth year in a row, we're honored to be selected as one of Denver Business Journal's Best Places to Work! Our secret? Our people! https://lnkd.in/gxqRHvXF #bestplacestowork #staff #livedifferent #together
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At CrossPurpose, we hear daily from executives like Chris Haugen and organizations like HCC - Hispanic Contractors of Colorado about the critical need for hardworking employees in the trades. Fortunately, the trades is one of our most popular skill tracks, graduating Leaders almost every month into the field and directly meeting the workforce needs of companies across the Denver Metro area. CrossPurpose is thrilled to spotlight our partnership with WCG Construction and Chris Haugen, a beacon of integrity, leadership, and equity in business. As a valued Employer Partner and investor, WCG Construction's generous support enables us to offer our career and personal development training entirely tuition-free, helping community members break free from generational poverty—while giving WCG a leg-up on access to great employees. Ready to make an impact? For more details, reach out to Bryce Lopez, Vice President of Partnerships, at blopez@crosspurpose.org. #SkilledTrades #WorkforceDevelopment #DenverJobs #ConstructionCareers #CrossPurpose
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Lecrae Moore & CrossPurpose hosted an Inreach Event for Sterling Prison in April, 2024. No words can describe how victorious and life-changing this moment was. One I'll never forget! In one sentence: 500 Men showed up to be encouraged by our team, and we left changed. "My peace has been cemented, my soul has been re-lifted My deconstruction ended, reconstruction is beginning" - Lecrae Shout out to all of the people who helped pull off this event: Sherie Birdsong Mkale Warner, Steve Steele, Ashuntie Gayden, Tony Martinez, Regina Edmondson, Kwame Warner, Josie Burton, John Livingston, Maria Silva Cano, Tyler Wells, Stephen Schoenfield, Jason Janz, Monique Seals, Dee Diaz, Alex Delgado, Flex Bowman,
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