Taller Jobs Group Honored
Like the students in its outreach program, the nonprofit Taller San Jose is just getting started.
The program, which began about two years ago in Santa Ana, is designed to teach job skills to troubled Orange County residents between 18 and 25 years old.
This month, Taller won an award from the Washington-based National Community Development Assn. The Audrey Nelson award, named for the organization’s first deputy executive secretary, recognizes outstanding uses of federal grants.
Taller has received $40,000 in federal Community Development Block Grant money distributed through the city of Santa Ana, said Sister Eileen McNerney, the organization’s executive director.
Taller, perhaps best known for the wooden benches made by students, started with $462,000 from the Sisters of St. Joseph in Orange, McNerney said.
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