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Foundation for an Independent Tomorrow (FIT) was founded in August of 1997 to respond to a local need: while at the time there were many jobs available in our community and unemployment was not re-markedly high, too many of the jobs either were not full time or did not pay enough for a parent to support their children on their own salary and without public assistance. We thought that the financial stability of having self-sufficient employment was very important. We looked around the community for an organization that strived to help people establish this self-sufficiency and we found none, thus FIT was founded. Our mission was then as it is now: to empower people, through education, case management and support, into positions that paid enough to support their family and make them independent and financially stable.