Supported Employment Site

Hire a Rise Team To Support Your Business

Our teams are excited, able, and ready to help your business execute its vision

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Dependable Workforce

Workers who are active, excited, and ready to go can transform your work culture.

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Cost-Effective Solution

Find folks who are motivated, focused, and work as hard as anyone. That's a huge benefit to your business.

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Difference

Provide an opportunity today and watch that individual excel. It's the best part of the job.

What is a Supported Employment Site?

Rise partners with a wide range of companies, from small start-ups to Fortune 500 corporations through the Twin Cities, Greater Minnesota, and western Wisconsin. We perform contracted work at their location. We also help identify job-ready candidates for possible hire.

We have people who have the skills and abilities to work in many fields, including:

  • Packaging, kitting, and assembly
  • Clerical
  • Data entry / document imaging
  • Manufacturing
  • Light Janitorial / cleaning services

What it looks like…

Rise offers a number of employment services for people with disabilities, mental health issues, brain injuries, and other life challenges. One of the key ways we support their individual career goals, skills, and interests is by partnering with local businesses to provide supported job environments.

We are committed to building mutually beneficial working partnerships with businesses. It's a win/win situation. Your business gets a dependable, cost-effective workforce while making a difference by providing jobs for people who are often overlooked.

Please contact us if you would like a free, no-obligation estimate. If you want to speak with any of our current customers and/or tour a community business in which we have people working, we can make those connections.

 

FAQs

We can fill in the gaps that your business may have! For example:
  • Deep-cleaning (things that regular janitorial services charge extra for)
  • Janitorial
  • Scanning and filling projects
  • Data entry
  • Mailings
  • Food prep
  • Food serving
  • Dishwashing
  • Dining room attendant
  • Stocking
  • Construction helper
  • Landscaping helper
  • Reception
  • Assembly
  • Packaging
  • Customer service
  • Organizing a retail sales floor
  • Activities aide (child care, senior care)

We are looking to partner with all types of businesses, both small and large, in a variety of settings. We will meet with you to determine how this service can specifically benefit you.

The person performing the work will be closely supervised by a Rise employee. The Rise staff will first be trained in accordance to your businesses standards and expectations to ensure that the work is done correctly.

  • Your business gets dependable workers to assist in the workload.
  • You get the satisfaction that comes with helping an individual gain additional work skills.
  • Your business will benefit from the positive PR associated with partnering with Rise.

It's absolutely safe to hire a Rise employee. We have a sterling safety record.

Contact Nancy Hoff at (763) 783-2807 or email nhoff@rise.org. She can answer your questions and would be happy to set up a tour of your business and schedule an informational meeting.

Types of Work

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Packaging and assembly
Clerical Work
Clerical Work
Manufacturing
Manufacturing
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Light Janitorial or Cleaning
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Data Entry
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Customer Service

Rise Workforce Success Stories

Wisconsin Works

By kbartnick | September 13, 2023

Rise team is integral in supplying critical medications to pharmacies throughout the upper Midwest. A massive warehouse filled with health and beauty aids is located in a business park in…

Tsega brings dedication to her talented production team at Integer

By tbrinker | June 25, 2023

Rise worked with more than 2,600 people with disabilities and other challenges last year as they achieved their goals. Many people work together on Rise teams at local businesses. People learn…

New Richmond team at Westfall Technik goes on site

By kbartnick | July 15, 2022

The plastic pieces Kristen Carlson and a supported employment Rise team handle inside Westfall Technik eventually find their way to manufactured products worldwide. On this day, the group is working…

Rise boosts Federal Premium Ammunition workforce

By kbartnick | July 12, 2022

As Rise continues the celebration of our 50th Anniversary year, it’s so important to recognize the successful relationships we’ve built in our communities. Our decades-long partnership with Federal Ammunition began…

Ruan & Bobcat value Rise workers

By kbartnick | August 20, 2019

It wasn’t long after Todd Peterson started his new position as warehouse manager for Ruan’s Otsego facility in the spring of 2018, that he called Rise’s Sales Representative Nancy Hoff.…

Rise’s ever-expanding partnership with Cretex companies continues to offer exciting work

By kbartnick | December 5, 2018

Within the 110,000-square-foot facility in Anoka, rms Surgical employees manufacture and assemble state-of-the-art orthopedic medical devices that are implanted in patients throughout the United States and across Europe. A leader…

Nikki discovers better process for assembling Pentair parts

By kbartnick | May 16, 2018

As one of the hard-working team members at Pentair’s production facility in New Brighton, Nikki gives it her best efforts every day to meet production and quality requirements. But when…

How to Hire a Rise Workforce?

Step 2

Schedule a tour and needs assessment for your business

Step 3

Make a positive impact in the community

Central MN, Twin Cities, and Western Wisconsin

Nancy Hoff
(763) 783-2807
nhoff@rise.org