New Nonprofit Group Helps Young, Uninsured Workers

The Service Employees International Union has created a nonprofit organization, with seed money from the Rockefeller Foundation, in New York, to help young workers who lack health insurance and are mired in debt, The New York Times reports.

The Seattle nonprofit organization, Qvisory Tools for Life, will provide health insurance and financial advice beginning this fall. It will do so primarily through its Web site. The organization plans to give career advice and have blogs and forums in which workers 18 though 35 can discuss jobs and various services.

Eileen Quigley, the organization’s chief executive, said Qvisory would charge fees to participants that would vary depending on the services requested. The Rockefeller Foundation announced yesterday that it had pledged $1-million to the new group, and the service employees’ union has donated $500,000.

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