In Seattle, a nonprofit community-based organization (CBO) employs some of the city's poorest and least-skilled people to manufacture critical components for Boeing using state-of-the-art technology. The country's largest predominantly African-American CBO, based in the heart of Newark, N.J., trains health professionals for world-class companies such as pharmaceutical giant Pfizer Inc. In Silicon Valley, a community job-training operation has won consecutive subcontracts with such electronics giants as Motorola and Hewlett-Packard.

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