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w w w . i n s i g h t o n b u s i n e s s . c o m A u g u s t 2 0 1 8 • I NSIGH T | 23 JumpStart features a comfortable and attractive waiting room. The shop promotes its "purple carpet experience," designed to meet the needs of female customers. Your business deserves first-rate facilities. You deserve a partner ready to make that happen. Visit us at hoffman.net As a business owner, you want the best for your company. The best opportunities. The best employees. The best facilities. Hoffman can help you create the ideal workspace for your company to grow and thrive. Insist on the best Proud Recipient of the 2018 Corporate Citizen Leadership Award provides an example of how nonprofit organizations can work together rather than compete. e two agencies recognized their geographic proximity and looked at ways to come together to help a larger number of clients. JumpStart's impact became apparent quickly in the days it was operating at FVTC, Oswald says. ey found that 80 percent of survivors were able to keep a job and get back on the right track because they had a reliable vehicle. Providing access to female mechanics also is impactful, Oswald says, because for many of the organizations' clients, going into an all-male shop, and even being around men in general, can be intimidating. Oswald says she and Krikava have been floored by the community response. People want to help domestic abuse victims, but they can't necessarily get involved in client work. is gives them another avenue to assist. In addition, it raises awareness about the issue. "It's been a wonderful vehicle for talking about domestic violence," she says. "e more we talk about it, the more it breaks down the stigma and embarrassment." At the same time, JumpStart helps raise the profile of non-traditional job opportunities for women. For example, a group of fih- and sixth-grade girls recently toured the shop and were excited to learn about a career option they hadn't considered as a possibility for them. Krikava says she'd love to franchise JumpStart, and VanderWielen says she could see garages popping up in Green Bay, Milwaukee, Madison and Chicago. With people hungry to spend their dollars in a way that also does good, the possibilities are endless — from salons to cafés that help introduce the women they serve to new career options, Krikava says. For now, though, the women are basking in the success. "It really feels like everybody's kind of been touched by it," Oswald says. B R YA N A S C H E N B R E N N E R