PPL – Building Futures for More than 30 Years
PPL is a nonprofit organization that creates opportunities for low-income families throughout the Minneapolis and St. Paul metro area. Our mission is to assist lower income people and families working toward self-sufficiency by providing housing, jobs, and training. PPL Industries is part of the Employment and Job Training Division within PPL.

PPL Industries provides paid training in light assembly work and offers 21 different classes to participants that are designed to improve career options for employees.

PPL Industries contracts with metro businesses to do labor intensive handwork and teach basic employment skills to adults with social and economic barriers to steady mainstream employment.

Volunteers assist in GED classes and career development efforts with trainees, bringing real world experience to the exercise.

Work is on an on-call basis and after 3 months of a strong work record, full-time employment is available.

On any given day, 100-130 people work at PPL Industries
A new Quality Assurance program was put into place that positively affects daily operations, reducing rejects and reworks at less than 1.5%.

In 2003, approximately 300 people were assisted by PPL Industries and PPL SHOP.
What sets PPL's programs apart from other worthy skill-building programs is the entrepreneurial spirit driving them. Businesses are self-sustaining with a primary goal of providing soft-skill training (such as better work habits, job-seeking and job-keeping skills, etc.) and job experience for those most in need.   By collaborating with a variety of business and community partners, PPL is able to provide programs for a wide range of participants, all of whom are paid an hourly wage or a stipend, while honing their skills.   PPL's programs report high job placement retention rates and graduates go on to become valued employees.