ICA Institute

The ICA Story ICA was founded in 2015 by two community activists who had long been involved with job placement and career counseling for the Hasidic community of Brooklyn. Together, they have placed over 500 people in jobs, while teaching over 1000 students career enhancing skills in courses like bookkeeping, computers, ESL, among others. As the financial situation in the community deteriorated, they realized that more needed to be done, and upon the advice of their Grand Rabbi decided to join forces on a new project: Launching careers. Unlike a standard service job or retail job, with salary eventually capped at a level that couldnt adequately support a family, a career in a growing industry that requires specialized skills could provide a track to supporting a family in comfort. This realization lead to founding of ICA, a community career-training center dedicated to changing the financial future for anyone willing to put the work in. The ICA team constantly looks for and ...