Bruce Cox, a general contractor, used money from his own pocket to help many unemployed and unskilled residents find work.

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Cox taught the men the art of hammering nails, reading blueprints, measuring and cutting piece of woods and other technical skills they would need to build houses. Then he went out and persuaded foremen and contractors to hire his trainees, even getting up at dawn to drive the men to Pleasanton or Hayward to fill out applications.

Cox, who is married has four grown children, didn’t set out to become a mentor and role model for African-American men whose lives are sometimes dangerously off track. But in his own quiet, determined way, that’s what he has become.

Five years ago Cox made a decision that would change the lives of men who might otherwise be stuck in a revolving door of street life and incarceration.

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