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Executive Director Forge City Works Hartford, CT   About Forge City Works Forge City Works (FCW) believes in the power of food to make lives better. Building from our founding focus on creating opportunities within the neighborhood of Frog Hollow, we have used food to spur investment, support, good health, and employment across the Hartford community. Currently, we provide job training, food access, and sustainable social enterprises to help people change their lives: We provide on-the-job training for people with barriers to employment such as poverty, a criminal record, homelessness, and mental health challenges and link them to permanent jobs in the culinary field where they can succeed. Our farmers market serves 2,500 shoppers a year and redeems $5,000 in SNAP benefits, which FCW doubles, directly improving food security and providing access to healthy and affordable food in our neighborhood. The Kitchen, our social enterprise, raises just under 50% of our...