Forge City Works has one sentence that guides all of its day-to-day operations.
“Food on a mission to create opportunity.”
The Hartford-based non-profit, founded in 2007, operates several food-based businesses to provide job training and food access programs to the Hartford community. In addition to operating the popular Fire by Forge restaurant at 539 Broad St., the non-profit operates The Grocery on Broad Street in a joint venture with CT Food Share.
Forge City Works also provides catering and food service at The Lyceum Conference and Event Center in Frog Hollow.
The non-profit has been named one of Greater Hartford’s Top Workplaces in the Courant program for the first time, following the opening of the non-profit’s new grocery store earlier this year. The recognition is based on employee surveys conducted by Energage, as well as information about the non-profit’s employee programs and benefits.
“First it is the mission, we’re a non-profit whose mission is investing in the community through job training and fighting food insecurity. Our businesses help drive that mission, so I think it gives a sense of purpose to what we do,” said Forge City Works Executive Director Ben Dubow.
