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Building Community and Opportunity: The Impact of La Plazita Preschool on Oakland and San Leandro

La Plazita Preschool is not just an ordinary early childhood Spanish-immersion preschool– it’s a beacon of hope and a catalyst for change in the Oakland and San Leandro communities. Founded…

ShopBot Tools: Tackling COVID-19 Employer Challenges as a Small Business Owner

ShopBot Tools is a firm that designs, manufactures, and distributes affordable CNC routing machines for milling, drilling, and cutting various materials. They have been operating in Durham, North Carolina for…

HLB Lighting: Tackling COVID-19 Employer Challenges as a Small Business Owner

Horton Lees Brogden Lighting (HLB) is a women-owned architectural lighting design firm with offices across the U.S. The firm was founded in 1968, and is internationally recognized for designing interior…

Cupcakin’ Bake Shop

Lila Owens, founder of Cupcakin’ Bake Shop in Berkeley, CA, worked with pro bono advisor – and business strategy expert — Robert Bonner to streamline her operations and open additional…

Bora Architects

Read about how a Portland-based architecture firm successfully created a paid family leave program after finding that replacing an employee would be twice as expensive as offering paid time off….

Gap

National retailer Gap conducted a 35-week scheduling experiment that yielded about $2.9M in increased revenues for Gap across 19 pilot store locations. Key aspects of the experiment included: Elimination of…

Cooperative Home Care Associates

Learn how Cooperative Home Care Associates (CHCA) used innovative scheduling practices to create workplace and financial stability for their employees.

Dosa Restaurant

At DOSA—an Indian eatery with multiple locations in the San Francisco Bay Area—stable scheduling is seen as a key mechanism for employee retention. DOSA’s HR director Julie Howe shares that…