The value proposition for Uplift’s workforce training program is pretty clear: spend six weeks in the classroom learning some of the soft and hard skills required to succeed in the workforce, and one of the group’s partners will give you a job. Uplift’s goal is to keep ex-offenders in and around Philadelphia from returning to prison. Thanks to its partnership with local employers, Uplift reports that only a tiny percentage of the people who complete the training program are rearrested or reincarcerated.