Greenwich couple Kate and Jim Hohorst and their company, Student Employment Software LLC, has won the Department of Education’s coveted 2010 Small Business Innovation Research Award, the Greenwich Citizen reports.
Over the last three years, their software program has provided more than 3,700 students in the Greenwich and Scarsdale, N.Y. communities with instant online access to 5,600 community jobs, the newspaper reports on its Web site.
Their winning $100,000 grant will go toward expanding their online student job-matching service to include internships and volunteer opportunities, to enable schools and local communities to come together.
“I was more thrilled than surprised to get this 2010 Small Business Innovation Research Award,” says Kate Hohorst. “I knew it would be difficult to get this grant, but jobs are very important to students and a priority of this Obama administration.”
The Hohorsts’ Student Employment Software supports the long-standing volunteer organization, the Student Employment Service (SES) based at Greenwich High School that presently has 2,600 Greenwich students aged 14 to 24 registered with their web-based service, with more than 1,700 employers.
The SES website is www.ghs-ses.org.
“Basically it’s an online community with real people behind it,” says Kate Hohorst. “It’s a gathering of three peoples — employers, students and volunteers.”
