The original Ready, Willing & Able facility is located in a renovated building owned by The Doe Fund in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn. Originally a school for the blind, the building sat vacant and dilapidated for years before it was renovated by RWA construction crews in 1990.

The Peter Jay Sharp Center for Opportunity facility performs a variety of services, including serving as one of the primary Assessment and Referral sites in the New York City shelter system. It has Ready, Willing & Able beds and offers pre-program beds to individuals who receive intensive services and benefit from sharing a facility and a culture of upward mobility with peers who are already earning money for their work and on their way to full productive independence.

During the privatization of the New York City homeless shelter system, The Doe Fund took over the management of Harlem I in 1996. The once crumbling, drug- and crime-infested building has been transformed into the cleanest, safest shelter in the New York system through the determined efforts of Ready, Willing & Able trainees and staff. Nazerine Griffin, the Program Director, is also one of the earliest graduates of Ready, Willing & Able.

On June 6, 2001, The Doe Fund secured a commitment from the Mayor's office in Philadelphia to replicate Ready, Willing & Able there. The program is funded by the City of Philadelphia Office of Emergency Shelter Services (OESS), and houses 70 men in a newly renovated facility leased to us by the City of Philadelphia.

Ready, Willing & Able-Philadelphia would not have been possible without the instrumental help of Phyllis Ryan, Executive Director of the Philadelphia Committee to End Homelessness. Ms. Ryan first introduced Ready, Willing & Able to the Philadelphia City government and played a major role in attracting the support of Mayor Street's administration.