Southwest Creations Collaborative

Southwest Creations creates opportunities for our employees to build "employability skills" in English, computer skills and GED completion through our Working Families Programs. We also know that students do better in school when the adults in their lives set their own goals for learning. So even if a mother has no aspirations for higher education for herself, her decision to take a class a few times a week has great results. The effort, commitment and process of goal-setting and problem solving that a mother invests in her own education positively impacts her children as she models the value of life-long learning and opens doors for a successful future. Our efforts over the past two decades have helped us employ over 100 people, create 35 living wage jobs and design college-readiness programs for our employees' children that have achieved 98% high school graduation and 85% college attendance rates. In addition to our successful social programs, our revenues have grown from $30,000 to $1.4 million annually. We work with both local and national companies including West Elm, Dwell Studios, Clariant and Ten Thousand Waves.