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Inclusive Hiring – With Guest Expert Margo Walsh

This week's question gets an unexpected and inspiring answer from Guest Expert Margo Walsh, Founder and CEO of MaineWorks. MaineWorks is an innovative employment company with a social mission: to dignify the experience for people who face real barriers to workforce reentry, including people recover…

Should the Board Chair Apply for the ED Position?

Summertime doesn't appear to be the time for Stacey and Andy to relax. Instead, we've got big questions to answer! Do nonprofits make common management mistakes? Maybe – Stacey and Andy certainly have opinions. Also, would it ever be a good idea for a board strategic planning retreat to specificall…

Margo Walsh: MaineWorks

Margo Walsh, CEO and Founder of MaineWorks, a B Corp that helps former felons recover from addiction and reenter the labor force, joins today’s episode. Margo herself is in long-term recovery from substance abuse disorder, and her honesty, commitment to reinvigorating the lives of others, and passi…

Margo Walsh Describes Her Drive to Create Innovative Approaches to Help Marginalized People Get Back into the Workplace

Margo Walsh is an entrepreneur who created MaineWorks, a certified B-Corp that helps people with substance use disorder and/or criminal records find employment in the construction sector. Her company finds and screens potential employees and through the non-profit she founded with her sister, sets …

How B-Corps businesses are shaping corporate climate action

Neil Kiely (Androscoggin Bank Chief Executive Officer), Margo Walsh (MaineWorks Founder & Owner), and Fiona Wilson (UNH Deputy Chief Sustainability Officer) discuss what B-Corps businesses are and what role businesses play in creating a more sustainable world.

Landing a Life-Changing Job Out of Prison and Addiction

Out of prison and addiction into a full-time job with big-time responsibility, Kyle Wedge transformed his life in no small way, with the help of a whole host of folks who had faced that same hard recovery. Now, as Field Operations Manager at MaineWorks, he is helping people move from incarceration …

After Addiction, a Chance to Do Right

Justin Downey had a choice — change his life or die. At 16, he was addicted to heroin. In his 20s, he was in and out of prison. While serving a three-year sentence, Justin’s kids were taken into state custody. He knew he had to become a new man for his family and for himself. Getting clean was the …

Episode 15: Maine Recovery and Workforce Community: A Dignified Job Makes All the Difference

Send us Fan Mail Host: Elise Kiely Guest: Margo Walsh, Founder of MaineWorks and Co-Founder of United Recovery Fund Episode Summary: In this compelling episode of Elegant Maine Living, Elise Kiely sits down with Margo Walsh—founder of the groundbreaking employment company MaineWorks and co-founder …

Episode 16: Maine Recovery and Workforce Community Part 2: A Dignified Job Makes All The Difference

Send us Fan Mail In the second half of my conversation with Margo Walsh—founder of MaineWorks and co-founder of United Recovery Fund—we explore how employment, structure, and community can change the course of someone’s life. Margo shares powerful statistics: if individuals can stay employed for ju…

Second Chances That Work: How Margo Walsh Is Transforming Lives Through Employment — and Changing Business in the Process — A Special Encore Presentation of Blue Sky

Margo Walsh is an entrepreneur on a mission to prove that second chances are good for business. As founder of MaineWorks — a certified B-Corp — she has built a model that connects people with substance use disorder and/or criminal records to meaningful employment in the construction sector, tackli…