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XO Factor, Inc. helps give second chances to returning citizens

XO Factor, Inc. (XOF) is a 501(c)(3) organization founded with a mission to create a culture of second chances for returning citizens by assisting men, women, children, and families to rebuild their lives after incarceration. Venture Philanthropy Fund helped create a new website and marketing materials to help them spread their reach to even more returning citizens in the Tampa Bay region.

Founded by Bethany McNeil in 2015, XO Factor, Inc. has helped more than 600 people return home and rebuild their lives, reconnect with their families, and prepare to rejoin the labor market.

XO Factor helps returning citizens locate the necessary resources that will assist them in attaining the basic, day-to-day needs, including assisting them in finding housing, transitional benefits, and healthcare assistance.

Through its job readiness support program, XOF helps men and women brush up on former skills and activities that will help place them back in the labor force.

XO Factor, Inc. offers vital work skills training, like how to write a cover letter and resume, basic computer skills, and presentation preparedness through mock job interviews. XO Factor stays with them up until 90 days after they land a job – and our 86% success rate proves our services work.

As well as holding Community Block Parties like the upcoming One Dream, One Bag Block Party and Backpack Giveaway, holding job placement and work readiness seminars, and holding annual Christmas Giveaways for families of incarcerated and returning citizens, XOF is currently working on opening the XO Factor Reentry House, which will offer temporary homes for those recently released from incarceration.

For more information visit secondchancesmatter.org.