The Stride Center prepares students for professional, well-rounded careers in the information Communication technology field. Coming from all around the Bay Area, students learn new skills allowing them to achieve their goals of finding well paying, vibrant new careers. The Stride Center’s career training program surrounds participants with a comprehensive array of resources and an award winning curriculum, ensuring that graduates can compete and thrive in their new career.

What is IC3?
IC3 (pronounced; i-see-three) is the abbreviation of the Internet and Computing Core Certification.” The IC3 is a certification program which is designed to teach individuals the digital literacy skills associated with basic computer and Internet use.

Bridge your digital divide with IC3 certification, to acquire 21^st century workforce skills. This instructor lead, hands-on class covers a broad range of computing knowledge and skills that proves competency in computing fundamentals: hardware, software and using an operating system, key applications, word processing and spreadsheet functions  and PowerPoint presentations living online, networks and the internet, email and the impact of computing on society.  IC3 is a worldwide, internationally recognized certification, endorsed by Microsoft – that teaches real skills for use in today’s digital world.

When?
The Stride center is offering IC3 Training and Certification at our San Pablo and Oakland locations. Classes start on: March 12^th  Mon – Thurs 12:00PM to 4:00PM

Where?
(2) locations:
- Broadway classroom location:  1212 Broadway, Suite 400, Oakland, CA 94612
- San Pablo classroom Location:  2300 El Portal Drive San Pablo, CA 94806

Get more inofrmation:
Feel free to contact us and speak with our enrollent team about this training opportunity: stan@stridecenter.org, 510/234-1300 ext. 105 or 510/860-3947.

The Stride Center is a social venture nonprofit empowering economic self-sufficiency for individuals and communities in the San Francisco Bay Area.  We are harnessing the power of technology to help men, women and families on the road to self-sufficiency and independence.

EmpowerNet California is an active collaboration of successful organizations, dedicated to helping underserved communities through IT workforce development. Founded to support California communities crossing the digital divide, EmpowerNet offers:

• a web toolkit and resource sharing
• consulting
• EmpowerNet Academy for local organizers

The EmpowerNet Collaborative is funded by CETF (California Emerging Technology Fund).

The Stride Center joined with the leadership of the United Way of the Bay Area and the Contra Costa Employment and Human Services (CCEHS) division to celebrate Halloween day at an event to announce the grand opening of SparkPoint East Contra Costa in Bay Point.  The CCEHS Department has invested $200,000 in the new center and leads its day-to-day operations at the Ambrose Community Center.  SparkPoint Centers are one-stop, financial-education centers that offer a full range of services to help families and individuals get out of poverty and achieve long-term financial stability.  The new center in Bay Point is one of eight SparkPoints that United Way and its partners have opened in the Bay Area over the last three years.

“The Stride Center is at its best when we work in collaboration with key partners to help people achieve financial stability.  This SparkPoint offers a full range of services under one roof to fight poverty in each local community.  We are excited to bring our considerable and thoughtful skills and processes to this effort,” said Barrie Hathaway, Executive Director of The Stride Center.

SparkPoint East Contra Costa brings together the following partners to serve clients: Bay Area Legal Aid, Brighter Beginnings, Center for Human Development, Contra Costa Employment & Human Services, Contra Costa Health Services, Community Housing Development Corporation, First 5, Opportunity Junction, Stand, Stride Center and United Way of the Bay Area.  All of the partners use one system and set of metrics to track clients’ progress.

On Monday, November 7, 2011, Executive Director Barrie Hathaway and staff members from The Stride Center were recognized as one of six Richmond area nonprofit organizations to be selected to receive a share of $1 million in grants from Chevron as part of the company’s California Partnership Program, an initiative that invests in education and economic development in California. The grants will help boost local Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) Education, prepare residents for technical jobs in Richmond and the surrounding communities and invest in other nonprofits.

“We are grateful for to be selected as one of the Grantees by Chevron,” said Barrie.  “Our partnership with Chevron extends beyond our jobs training and preparedness.  This generous grant funds the expansion of our social venture business, ReliaTech, increasing our capacity to provide zero landfill electronics recycling and refurbishing services, help small businesses grow through use of technology, broaden ReliaTech’s Neighborhood Technology Center services and create green jobs in the City of Richmond,  This turns out to be a win-win-WIN for The Stride Center, Chevron and the City of Richmond.”

As shared in the Chevron press release:

“Our contributions are designed to help people and businesses thrive,” said Nigel Hearne, general manager of Chevron’s Richmond Refinery. “When business and nonprofits work together we can ensure better education and jobs for the next generation and a better future for all of our communities.

According to California’s Employment Development Department, Richmond’s unemployment rate is 16.9 percent, considerably higher than the country’s overall rate of 9.1 percent. Chevron has selected specific nonprofit organizations that help address the unemployment rate by preparing residents for today’s jobs and preparing youth for the technical jobs of the future.”

The Stride Center prepares students for professional, well-rounded careers in the information technology field. Coming from all around the Bay Area, students learn new skills allowing them to achieve their goals of finding well paying, vibrant new careers.  The Stride Center’s career training program surrounds participants with a comprehensive array of resources and an award winning curriculum, ensuring that graduates can compete and thrive in their new career.

The Stride Center operates a technology consulting business, ReliaTech.
ReliaTech generates jobs and internships for graduates and students, revenue to sustain  the mission and brings affordable, local technology solutions to the community.