...and teaching skills and other stuff.? Not Knocking it...just wondering...

TRAINING, EMPLOYMENT & HOUSING
Once Members start to change their personal perceptions, Back on My Feet prepares them for independence. Residential Members work with BoMF staff to build a road map toward self-sufficiency which includes financial literacy and skill-building classes with for-profit and nonprofit partners. After training, Members have access to interview and employment opportunities with partners including Marriott and White Lodging. Members are also offered financial assistance to overcome barriers to self-sufficiency such as a security deposit for more permanent housing.
http://www.backonmyfeet.org/mission-process

Thanks.

Tomorrow can be better because of something I'm doing today, and me-in-the-future deserves this investment.

Even when we want something for rational reasons, there are many ways we don’t go about getting it in the most rational way (Daniel Kahneman’s Thinking Fast and Slow is a great source here). One big one I don’t think Kahneman mentions: We often think of our future selves in the same way we think of other people. So yeah, buying that soda now will give me-in-the-future a big gut, while not buying it will give me-in-the-future less gut and more money. But I still buy that soda because screw him. That ain’t rational, but it’s how we think.