Kathy McIntyre is the Executive Director of Fairchance, a 501C3 Charity engaged in poverty remediation. Fairchance emanated from an Obama administration initiative for the U.S. Justice Department to engage in justice-involved re-entry programs. Since 2016, Kathy has directed Fairchance’s resultant partnership with the U.S. Attorneys’ Office as well as over 75 major career events and Symposiums designed to train some of America’s largest employers on how to hire justice-involved and impoverished candidates based upon U.S. government wage subsidizations, bonding programs, and tax incentives. Kathy subsequently provided oversight of Fairchance Poverty remediation in Delaware, at the largest East Coast homeless shelter, the NCC Hope Center in New Castle, Delaware from 2022-24. Kathy directed empowerment, needs remediation, and advocacy placement programs for several hundred at-risk homeless candidates. Under Kathy’s direction, Fairchance maintained nearly a decade-long career services contract with the U.S. Army as well as grants, contracts, and partnerships with SAMHSA, the US DOL, and ARPA for Poverty remediation programs. Kathy is a former CPA and Owner-Director of the exclusive Peachtree Accounting Support Center in Manhattan.
Kathy spoke to City Council on October 8, 2024:
My name is Kathy McIntyre. I live in Raleigh and I am the director of Fairchance North Carolina.
I am here to introduce our charity, Fairchance. We are from Colorado and Delaware and are engaged in poverty remediation.
The rates of those experiencing homelessness are being addressed. But at times it seems there are no real solutions as there are multiple identifiable causes. One cause is poverty. Others include justice involvement, domestic violence, child abuse, drugs, alcoholism, and disease.
Fairchance meets people where they are regarding untapped talents, skills, and abilities. We remediate all personal needs that obstruct their “right to thrive” and get in the way of a sustainable wage career. These include a lack of transportation, clothing, childcare, expungements or pardons, cell phones, and eye glasses.
Candidates attend Fairchance “Empowerment Classes” based upon the curriculum of “What Color Is Your Parachute.” They do a self-inventory of their identity, talents, skills, and abilities –many of which they learned as a result of their own life traumas.
Fairchance affords impoverished candidates a pathway to their dreams and a roadmap on how to get there, from a mission to setting goals, and a budget. Candidates become “empowered” as they witness miracles transpire before their eyes, including the discovery of themselves and their abilities while their needs and problems magically disappear through Fairchance joint remediations with community service providers.
Fairchance provides a “total makeover” of skills, remedial education, career placement, and a customed-design resume built on their newly-empowered identity. Fairchance “fixes the glitch” of employment absences, arrests, and educational gaps.
Fairchance provides “equitable remedy” to those who are impoverished and/or homeless. We don’t expect a firm handshake or eye contact from those arising from a park bench or a night’s sleep in the back seat of a car. Fairchance does it for them –on a “whatever it takes” basis. Fairchance’s 81% remediate is based on our team’s ability to go to bat for our candidates, not how well they can do it for themselves. We place candidates into a better life and empower them with the ability to retain it.
“Whatever it takes” is the U.S. Army’s ethos for getting things done. It became our ethos after a 10 year military contract. “Equitable remedy” means that we empower the candidate, fix the problems, and place the individual. It works for candidates without resources or instructions on how to use them.
The mission of Fairchance is to remediate poverty by breaking the intergenerational cycles. Our residents –and their children and families deserve far better.
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