2025-04-10T18:07:31-07:00 2024-12-31 990 2024-01-01 844141628 JAMKO FOUNDATION INCORPORATED JAMK 8775265654 3630 High Street Unit 19037 Oakland CA 94619 Michelle Edmond Executive Director 8775265654 2025-04-10 1 2024 2025-03-06 01:10:19Z X Michelle Edmond 3630 High Street Unit 19037 Oakland CA 94619 212719 0 X www.jamkofoundation.org X 2019 CA Jamko Foundation, Inc., founded December 2019, is a national 501(c)(3). Jamko works to ignite hope and provide tangible opportunities for people facing poverty and oppression. We partner with vision-aligned agencies + projects that seek to stabilize a person in 5 key areas: Education, Employment, Finances, Housing and Healthy Well-being to help eradicate poverty of mind, body, spirit. At the heart of our vision is the Merchant Mariner Apprenticeship Training Program, opening doors for Opportunity Youth and Adults to gain skills, credentials, and careers in the maritime industry-bridging potential to prosperity. 7 0 0 3 0 0 84613 212555 7541 164 0 0 0 0 92154 212719 770 0 0 0 51872 32645 0 0 0 48214 139678 100856 172323 -8702 40396 26071 85227 0 13337 26071 71890 X Jamko Foundation, Inc., founded December 2019, is a national 501(c)(3). Jamko works to ignite hope and provide tangible opportunities for people facing poverty and oppression. To help eradicate poverty of mind, body, spirit; we partner with vision-aligned agencies + projects that seek to stabilize a person in 5 key areas: Education, Employment, Finances, Housing and Healthy Well-being . At the heart of our vision is the Merchant Mariner Apprenticeship Training Program, opening doors for Opportunity Youth and Adults to gain skills, credentials, and careers in the maritime industry-bridging potential to prosperity. 1 0 40061 0 102719 Jamko Foundation, a 501c3 non-profit, was awarded a $350,000 Department of Apprenticeship Standards (DAS) planning grant to transform a legacy maritime training program into California's 1st Opportunity Youth Merchant Maritime Apprenticeship and U.S. Department of Labor certified maritime apprenticeship. The apprenticeship model creates a direct pipeline to unions and employers. Upon graduation, apprentices have a 90% retention rate after completing a registered apprenticeship program. (US Dept of Labor Nov 2024). Currently operating in the San Francisco Bay Area, the planning grant allows Jamko to set up the partnerships and facilities needed to expand training to the Ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles, and eventually San Diego. In addition, Jamko is in the process of becoming a U.S. Department of Labor certified apprenticeship. Jamko Foundation, Inc. attempts to help disadvantaged youth become positive, successful role models, while also working to relieve industry billet shortages and restore maritime historic vessels. We have found this to be a radically transformative experience for our trainees. Our strategic educational youth program partner in Oakland Unified is African-American Male Achievement (AAMA). Together, we are working to create an Apprenticeship for Opportunity Youth that provides, hands-on, classroom and work-based vocational training along with wraparound support services. The expected outcome is that student participants will be trained and fully licensed Merchant Marines by the time they graduate high school. Young Californians need this as a way to succeed and contribute to the local and global economies. This is a radically transformative experience for our trainees. A career with growth potential and a substantial salary seems impossible for teens and adults from marginalized communities. 27973 57987 Peer Level Technical Assistance including: grant research training, program development, fiscal and fiduciary support. We seek to develop relationships with local mission-aligned agencies to increase their capacity and ensure their resiliency. JAMKO focuses on building capacity, strengthening and deploying servant leaders. 90089 18870 Jamko operates a merchant marine training and credentialing program from historic museum ships moored at California ports. Jamko provides skills-based vocational training that aligns with the Onet Occupation for Sailors and Marine Oilers 53-5011.00. The program helps trainees attain the required documents, coursework, physicals and drug tests to acquire a Merchant Mariner Credential and begin work. This opportunity is offered at no cost to trainees, includes wraparound supportive services such as financial literacy and culturally relevant counseling. A person with no high school diploma, no GED and no prior work experience, can complete our 12 week program and begin work as a licensed union Merchant Seafarer with a starting median union wage of $47K, plus benefits, retirement and global travel. Salaries can rise to $100,000+ (USD) in less than 3 years. Strong upward mobility and a shortage of American seafarers means that a young sailor can enjoy a long, prosperous career. Our program helps trainees attain the required documents, coursework, physicals and drug tests to acquire a Merchant Mariner Credential (MMC) and begin work. Our training model addresses key challenges facing youth seeking employment. Those obstacles are training and exposure to high-quality jobs with sustainable wages, benefits, and pathways for advancement. This is especially for youth and adults from underserved and disinvested communities. Merchant Mariners are licensed, union civilians working for private shipping companies or as non-military personnel on government vessels. The newly credentialed sailors choose to work for a government agency or join one of three maritime unions: Seafarer's Int'l Union (SIU), Marine Fireman's (MFOW), or Sailors Union of the Pacific (SUP). Industry demand is high as sea billets (jobs) are understaffed so 100% of our graduates have been going to work as Merchant Seafarers. Jamko seeks to introduce maritime careers and make the training and documentation attainable by paying direct training and documentation costs. 0 0 0 158123 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 X 7 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 CA X X Michelle Edmond 8775265654 3291 Morcom Avenue Oakland CA 94619 X Michelle Edmond Executive Director 40 0 X X 32645 0 0 Lawrence Edmond Board Member 5 0 X 2075 0 0 Cynthia Grayson President, Board of Director 1 0 X 0 0 0 Dr Paula Hawthorn Board Member 1 0 X 0 0 0 John McClendon Board Member 1 0 X 0 0 0 Burley Pie aka John McDowell Board Member 1 0 X 0 0 0 Patricia Ramos Board Member 1 0 X 0 0 0 Robert Read Board Member 1 0 X 0 0 0 34720 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 167500 45055 0 212555 164 164 0 0 164 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 212719 164 0 0 X 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 32645 28728 3917 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 360 360 0 0 3225 2838 387 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 73934 73934 0 0 220 220 0 0 4028 1290 2738 0 1247 948 299 0 0 0 0 0 1600 0 1600 0 14874 10907 3967 0 0 0 0 0 2231 2156 75 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1389 1389 0 0 36570 35353 1217 0 172323 158123 14200 0 24615 71890 0 0 0 1250 1250 2150 0 3500 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 873 667 206 206 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 6231 26071 85227 0 1841 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 11496 0 13337 X 24615 71890 0 0 1456 0 26071 71890 26071 85227 X 40396 0 0 0 0 5423 X 0 0 0 X 1048 14200 91649 84613 202555 394065 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1048 14200 91649 84613 202555 394065 394065 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 10000 54400 67869 7541 32755 172565 566630 0 X Schedule A, Part II, Line 10 capacity building, fiscal sponsorship RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 273 0 250 23 600 0 417 183 206 Classroom 6231 6231 0 Payroll Liabilities 11496 11496 Form 990, Part III, Line 2 Jamko Foundation was awarded a $350,000 Department of Apprenticeship Standards (DAS) planning grant to transform a legacy maritime training program into California's 1st Merchant Maritime Apprenticeship. The DAS apprenticeship will serve Opportunity Youth 18-24 years old. March 2025 the U.S. Department of Labor conferred to Jamko a Merchant Maritime Certified Apprenticeship which serves adults 18+. The planning grant has enabled Jamko to set up its Los Angeles business operations in Harbor City, formalize a collaboration with West Cal Academy pre-apprenticeships (https://www.westcalacademy.com/), and hire a program coordinators in Los Angeles and the SF Bay Area. Form 990, Part VI, Section A, Line 2 Board Chair, Cynthia Grayson is the sister of Founding Director, Lawrence Edmond, Jr. Executive Director, Michelle Edmond is the wife of Founding Director Lawrence Edmond Jr. and sister-in-law to Board Chair Cynthia Grayson Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 11b Upon filing, the 990 submission is reviewed with the Board of Directors and made available upon request. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 12c The Conflict of Interest policy is written into our bylaws and a condition of being a board member in good standing. Form 990, Part VI, Section C, Line 19 Guidestar.org and upon request Form 990, Part IX, Line 11g Program Administration $11,611 Program Misc Expenses $9248 Sub-Contractors (maritime training and apprenticeship program consultants) $53075 Form 990, Part IX, Line 24e Program Curriculum Costs - trainee licensing, trainee coursework Form 990, Part XI, Line 9 $3500 notes receivable $1923 outstanding checks