{ "slug": "advancing-steps", "display_name": "Advancing Steps", "legal_name": "ADVANCING STEPS", "ein": "83-1189707", "organization_type": "501(c)(3) nonprofit", "year_established": 2019, "year_established_source": "propublica", "headquarters_city": "Desert Hot Springs", "headquarters_state": "CA", "primary_cause": "Community", "primary_cause_source": "NTEE I40 via ProPublica (approximate)", "registration_status": "participant_2026", "mightycause_urn": "Changinglives-1760986325", "giving_url": "https://www.mightycause.com/organization/Changinglives-1760986325", "years_covered": [ 2025, 2026 ], "record_status": "Verified \u2014 identity and participation", "generated": true, "official_website": "https://www.advancingsteps.org", "official_website_source": "derived from the organization's contact email domain in DCF's own records, then HTTP-verified. Never constructed.", "official_website_verified": "2026-08-13", "profile_gaps": [ "description" ], "mightycause_urn_previous": "Changinglives-cvgd", "urn_rekeyed": "2026-08-13", "short_description": "Advancing Steps mission is \"to help change the lives of formerly incarcerated people by providing evidenced-based supportive services, while focusing on education/vocational training as a path to living-wage careers\".", "about": "Advancing Steps mission is \"to help change the lives of formerly incarcerated people by providing evidenced-based supportive services, while focusing on education/vocational training as a path to living-wage careers\". Advancing Steps is a full-service resource center, that serves anyone who has served time in a California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation facility with Reentry services. Our services include intensive case management, career counseling, mental health referrals, addictions referrals, workforce development, job placement, interviewing classes, public speaking, I.D. revivals, family reunification, transportation, college application support, FAFSA support, and other services as they arise. Our goal is to help transform the formerly incarcerated into respected citizens in our communities. Our staff works in an understanding, caring, empathic, and loving manner as we engage with our clients. We as an organization believe nothing is impossible and motivate our clients to reach high.\n\nOur impact is enrolling several clines into The College of the Desert and Project Rebound at Cal State University, San Bernardino. We have also placed five clients into either the Electrical Union and the Carpenters Union and they are working well above minimum wage. As our organization just got funded with a large grant we look forward to assisting others with our services.\n\nTestimonials\nAdvancing Steps has a great success story, Lets call this person Mr. Smith, Mr. Smith didn't graduate High School and we help him get his high school transcript and enrolled him in Palm Springs adult school. Mr. Smith finished his adult school and received his high school diploma; he is now employed at Amazon and enrolled in College of the Desert and pursuing his degree in Musical engineering. This gentleman is so excited for his future and now volunteers at Advancing Steps and now works with his community.", "description_source": "description as provided by the organization for CV Giving Day (via its Mightycause profile)", "description_retrieved": "2026-08-13", "keywords_provided_by_org": "Reentry, formerly incarcerated, human services, housing, workforce development, career counseling", "logo_url": "https://imagecdn.mightycause.com/b4a1ed63-73cb-4a3d-8ef6-2ba2b5327c31/-/overlay/8f0a3bf5-3cd4-4bb2-bb9b-14a45eebf1f6/80px80p/center/", "roster_status": "active", "primary_cause_reviewed": "Economic & Workforce Development", "primary_cause_reviewed_date": "2026-08-17", "primary_cause_reviewed_source": "CV Giving Day review against the organization's own description", "participation_years": [ 2025, 2026 ], "participation_note": "years_covered scopes what is known. Absence of a year from participation_years does not mean the organization did not participate: 2023 and 2024 org-level records are not held. participation_years is derived from the CV Giving Day participant lists, matched on EIN.", "participation_provenance": { "2026": "Mightycause giving-event summary export (Registration Status = Approved)", "2025": "CV Giving Day 2025 approved-participant list, matched on EIN" }, "jsonld": { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@type": "NonprofitOrganization", "@id": "https://www.cvgiving.org/nonprofits/advancing-steps/", "name": "Advancing Steps", "legalName": "ADVANCING STEPS", "taxID": "83-1189707", "nonprofitStatus": "Nonprofit501c3", "url": "https://www.advancingsteps.org", "sameAs": [ "https://www.advancingsteps.org" ], "address": { "@type": "PostalAddress", "addressLocality": "Desert Hot Springs", "addressRegion": "CA", "addressCountry": "US" }, "description": "Advancing Steps mission is \"to help change the lives of formerly incarcerated people by providing evidenced-based supportive services, while focusing on education/vocational training as a path to living-wage careers\".", "foundingDate": "2019", "memberOf": { "@type": "Organization", "name": "CV Giving Day", "url": "https://www.cvgiving.org" }, "dateModified": "2026-08-19", "potentialAction": { "@type": "DonateAction", "name": "Donate to Advancing Steps", "target": "https://www.mightycause.com/organization/Changinglives-1760986325" } }, "canonical": "https://www.cvgiving.org/nonprofits/advancing-steps/", "last_verified": "2026-08-19", "date_modified": "2026-08-19", "verified_statement": "Identity confirmed against IRS records. Participation confirmed against CV Giving Day registration. Public information compiled from the organization's own sources. Organizations that have indicated a preference against search indexing on their CV Giving Day registration are excluded from search indexing and from this site's sitemap. A cause may come from the organization's own category selection, from its IRS classification, or from CV Giving Day review; the source is always stated on the page and in this record." }