CIWI 2024
2024 Accomplishments = Our 13th Year of Delivering: “Access + Exposure = Opportunities”
CIWI---a small, community-based program, located in SF’s Bayview neighborhood (District 10) -- continues its mission and journey to create and maximize opportunities for our BIPOC/First Generation college students.
Program Expansion. CIWI Collaborations with General Contractors. Recruitment Partner (Yr. 3)
2024 marked CIWI’s third year of being a key recruitment partner for many of the Bay Area’s largest General Contractors. This is a big win for CIWI and our interns as these are full-time Summer internships (40 hours per week) with their GC sponsors. In 2024, we placed 9 interns (50% of CIWI 2024 interns severed) with General Contractors.
ULI-SF. DEI Committee/MOU and Partnership. Housing the Bay Event. ULI/WLI Events.
A huge thank you to our amazing partner, ULI-SF and its DEI Committee—including Rod Roche and Diane Oshima (CIWI Advisory Committee members). 2024 represents our fourth year in collaboration with the DEI Committee as well as attending the spectacular ULI 2024 Gala at the beautiful Julia Morgan Ballroom. This was also our third year of attending ULI’s Housing the Bay event, thank you Libby Seifel (Seifel Consulting Inc.), a key member of the ULI-SF family, for underwriting four tickets to allow us to attend. As well, thank you ULI/Women’s Leadership Initiative (WLI and Lisa Kabot) for inviting CIWI interns to attend the recent career development gathering (convened at Prologis’s SF Headquarters (CIWI Sponsor 2023 and 2024)) to secure information on all different areas of real estate, planning, finance, construction fields.
CIWI. Let Us Recruit for Your Projects and Firm Goals. Hudson Pacific Properties (HPP).
Our multi-year informal collaboration to place a CIWI candidate with HPP for their in-house eight-week internship program. In 2024, HPP selected Khalil White for their program. Khalil (100 Black Men Bay Area member) was also a CIWI 2023 intern with Prologis. Khalil recently transferred to UC Davis to pursue Mechanical Engineering.
East Bay Asian Local Development Corporation (EBALDC). East 12th Street (Oakland/CA) Affordable Housing Development. Community Benefits.
As part of the East 12th Street Development’s Team (including EBALDC, Unity Council, and Jordan Real Estate Investments) commitment to Oakland Unified School District (OUSD), CIWI selected Jamonte Wells, who recently graduated from McClymonds High School (West Oakland) and is now attending Laney College. Jamonte (also member of 100 Black Men Bay Area), who is pursuing Civil Engineering, will be interning with Q&A Consulting LLC (LBE/WBE/MBE) this summer.
Who CIWI Serves.
CIWI. Growing our Funding Sources. Grants.
Civic Engagement + Sustainability (CE+S) Events—What were we up to?
In addition to the formal internship component, CIWI designs and implements its CE+S events to deliver additional exposure to our industries. A huge thanks to our CE+S partners that created amazing site tours and events.
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Major Accomplishments
The Construction Industry Workforce Initiative (CIWI) is a partnership of private sector construction and real estate development companies committed to expanding opportunities and enhancing the diversity of the construction industry workforce with an emphasis in the following fields: Construction, Real Estate Development, Architecture and Engineering, Civic Engagement, and Urban Design.
CIWI is a program of Community Initiatives.