The pastoral teams of three Camden churches, two Lutheran and one Catholic, founded Hopeworks collaboratively. We officially opened our doors to our first trainees in March 2000. Since that time:

• Nearly 1000 youth from our target population have visited Hopeworks
• Trainees have gone on to get jobs, attend college and earn GED's
• Under the direction of our full-time web site project director, our trainees have developed web sites for over 180 paying clients, mainly local, national and international small businesses and non-profit organizations
• Our GIS business has serviced over 60 clients, producing parcel maps, digitizing land use information and creating online mapping functionality using Google Maps.
• We have developed lasting partnerships with six different organizations-a mix of governmental, commercial and faith-based organizations-that help us to accomplish our mission