The document provides details on Work Ready Inc.'s qualifications, projects, staffing capabilities, and current project. It summarizes Work Ready's experience renovating both commercial and residential properties in Chicago, including facade improvements, interior/exterior renovations, and new construction of single-family homes and apartments. Their current project is renovating 30 apartment units and common areas at Tudor Gables, financed through a loan from the Chicago Community Loan Fund. Youth training programs are utilized on the project for work experience.

1. CONTENTS
Background/Qualifications
Commercial Renovations
Residential Renovations
New Construction
Special Projects
Staffing
Current Project
WORK READY, INC.
QUALIFICATIONS AND CAPACITY
REPORT
JUNE 27, 2019
Project Management and Staffing

2. Project: K & S Hardware
628 S Pulaski Road, Chicago, Illinois 60624
Façade Renovation: City of Chicago Façade Rebate Program
Owner: Minnie Know
Contact: (773) 826-1905

3. Project: Duwell Fish Company
Interior and Exterior renovation
617 S. Pulaski Road, Chicago, IL. 60624
City of Chicago, SBIF grant use of local TIF revenues

4. Project: 1705-1711 St. Charles Road, Maywood, Illinois 60153 Apartment Renovation
Owner: Proviso Leyden Council for Community Action, Inc. (PLCCA)
Building: 24 Units, Project Cost: $2,098,748.
Funding: Cook County Bureau of Economic Development
Consultant: Juliette Davis, Community Economic Development Strategies (“CED”)
Project Manager: Nuri Madina

5. Project: 1832-38 South 5th Avenue, Maywood, Il, 60153 Multi-Family Residential Renovation
Owner: Proviso Leyden Council for Community Action, Inc. (PLCCA)
Building: 24 Units, Purchase: $4,335,257. Construction: $4,660,475.
Funding: Cook County Bureau of Economic Development
Consultant: Juliette Davis
Assistant Project Manager: Nuri Madina

6. Project: Fifth Avenue Commons
7 Market Rate, new single-family homes
Address: 4201-11 W. Harrison
4200-10 W. Fifth Avenue
Owner: Juneteenth Development LLC
Contact: Walker Harris Jr. (773) 457-1890
Developer/Project Manager: Madina Development Group

8. SPECIAL PROJECTS
Project: Conducting and Managing the CAC/LAC Elections
Client: Chicago Housing Authority
Central Advisory Council/Local Advisory Councils
Scope: 82 polling locations
750 Representatives
20,000 ballots
Project Manager: Work Ready, Inc. dba Special Projects Management

10. STAFFING
…for a wide range of businesses and services
Companies, Products and Events
Kitchen Staff-Kindred Hospital-Lakeshore
Event Staff-We’re Cleaning, Inc., Taste of Chicago
Proctors/Monitors- Cooperative Personnel Services dba CPS HR Consulting, Police
Officer Exam Administrations, December 2017, May 2018 and December 2018
Brand Ambassadors, PMD Media, Inc. Media Distribution for 2018 Season, Chicago
White Sox
Commendations
“Here is the time sheet for when Byron came in at Olive Harvey. I also want to say that
he helped a lot more than I could have anticipated. It was a crazy opening Day and he came
in and owned it. He is a complete pleasure to work with. If there is ever a need for a temp at
Olive Harvey again, I will request for him every time.”
-Jon, Chef Manager Taher Dining Service, Olive Harvey College, Chicago
“Gloria is working out swimmingly at the Truman campus!!! She gets positive ver-
batims often, but this is the first one in writing. Great Job Gloria!”
-Charitta, Chef Manager Taher Dining Service, Truman College, Chicago
“Courtney did a great job. I would welcome her back to Wright College any time :)”
-Jody Haile, Chef Manager, Taher Dining Service, Wright College, Chicago
“Here is the time sheet for Sean Stevens Jr. He is doing a great job and I would like him
to come back next week, Tuesday-Thursday at 7am-3:30pm. Thanks so much”
-Jamie Graber, Chef Manager, Taher Dining Service, Wright College, Chicago
“Here is Johns time sheet for the past week. Due to a catering event, John stayed later
on Tuesday than expected. Other than that, John was an EXCELLENT temporary addition.
Thank you.”
-Chef Manager Taher Dining Service, Olive Harvey College, Chicago

11. SOME OF 80 TEMPORARY STAFF SERVING AS
MONITORS, PROCTORS & USHERS FOR THE
DECEMBER , 2017 POLICE EXAM

12. CURRENT PROJECT
TUDOR GABLES
30 APARTMENT UNITS & COMMON AREA
IMPROVEMENTS

13. The work at Tudor Gables is financed by a Chicago
Community Loan Fund (CCLF) loan of $3,004,347.68
with $1,345,418.00 for construction. CCLF is a non-
profit, certified Community Development Financial In-
stitution (CDFI) and a leading early-stage lender for
community developers, a primary lender for affordable
housing cooperatives and social enterprises and a
principal promoter of sustainable development in met-
ropolitan Chicago. CCLF controls over $73 million in
assets, making it one of the 10 largest nonprofit CDFIs
in Illinois. Of only eight organizations worldwide honored with the
2009 MacArthur Award for Creative and Effective Institutions. CCLF was
also the recipient of Woodstock Institute’s 2014 Community Investment
Award for providing credit in communities of color that suffered from
abandonment and winner of the 2014 Alford-Axelson Award for Non-
profit Managerial Excellence.
CHICAGO COMMUNITY LOAN FUND

14. Work Ready utilizes
youth training and
work programs. At Tu-
dor Gables, some sum-
mer workers per-
formed routine lawn
maintenance—cutting
grass, trimming hedg-
es, under supervision
of a professional land-
scape designer. Others
worked at various pro-
jects throughout the
building,—basic con-
struction labor, demo-
lition, cleaning and
janitorial and mainte-
nance duties.
YOUTH TRAINING AND EMPLOYMENT

19. AFTER VIEWS

21. -Maya Samuels, Share Owner

24. Modern new spacious designs;
Hardwood floors; Granite
countertops

25. Each phase of the construction work is paid through a
Chicago Title Construction escrow. Chicago Community
Loan Fund (CCLF) Asset manager and their Inspector visit
the site before each draw. They inspect the work, review
the description of the work, it’s progress, any changes or
issues, sworn statements, and waivers and invoices. They
then approve the draw request and wire the money to the
Chicago Title Escrow.
Each dollar spent on the project is outlined in these docu-
ments and included in a Draw Narrative. Each Draw Narra-
tive to date is available for your review at the Google
drive link below
https://drive.google.com/drive/
folders/1b48I5TTUaSXUfS0X1Q8UiltX9M-8ALzK?
usp=sharing