Chrysalis Accomplishments & Recognition

Chrysalis was presented with the “Rose Award” from the Downtown Breakfast Club (DBC) as the top social service agency in the downtown community in the past 25 years. (2005)

Chrysalis was awarded the only Los Angeles special populations grant through the California Workforce Investment Act-Governor’s Discretionary Fund to provide customized employment services and training to remove job barriers for the Los Angeles homeless. (2005)

Sotheby’s International Realty partnered with Chrysalis to create the First Annual “Run to Change Lives” in Downtown Los Angeles in May. (2005)

Chrysalis was awarded $300,000 in capital funding from the Ahmanson Foundation to help finance the purchase of and renovations for a new Santa Monica client center. (2005)

The Los Angeles Downtown News recognized Chrysalis as “The Best Social Service Organization in Downtown Los Angeles”. (2003)

The Charles Stewart Mott Foundation selected Chrysalis’ temporary staffing agency as a National Demonstration Project model of a successful solution for returning the hardest-to-employ to the workforce (2003).

“Drug Czar” John Walters from the White House Office of Drug Control Policy visited and recognized Chrysalis' approach to employment programs. (2002)

Chrysalis Staffing was the focus of a Harvard/Radcliffe study on successful alternative staffing agency models. (2002)

Chrysalis presented its model at a White House conference exploring “Innovative Solutions to Hunger and Poverty” for the U.S. Department of Agriculture. (1999)

The National Governors Association Center for Best Practices and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban development featured Chrysalis' Chrysalis Staffing in two commissioned studies: New Avenues in Jobs and Incentives and Supports for the Employment of Welfare Recipients. (1997)

The Peter Drucker Foundation selected Chrysalis from a nationwide pool of non-profit organizations to be the case study for its first non-profit leadership tele-seminar, "The Nonprofit Leader of the Future", viewed around the world by over 10,000 people. (1997)

Pacific Research Institute awarded Chrysalis first prize in its "Beyond the Welfare State: Celebrating Private Initiative in Social Services" competition. (1996)

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Robin Garr named Chrysalis "one of the top organizations in the country for combating poverty" in his book Reinvesting in America. (1995)

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