The Sofei Group

The SOFEI Group is a nonprofit organization that empowers women of the Washington region to emerge from economic instability through education, training, and development. We focus on women experiencing situational poverty (economic instability) due to divorce, spousal abandonment, illness, job loss, caregiving, or domestic violence and since we have helped women gain career, entrepreneurial, and financial skills to transition to economic independence. Our services are tailored to teach (empower) women to "Start Over" to obtain self-sustaining wages to create pathways to economic stability for themselves and their families. We provide a twelve-step plan to foster economic growth and independence, career assessments for women re-entering the workforce or transitioning to a new career, professional and workforce development training for women seeking to enhance their skills to advance their careers, business development training for women who want to launch or sustain a lucrative business, and IT certification training and testing for women working or seeking career opportunities in the IT Industry. The SOFEI Group is an authorized testing center for Microsoft and IC³ and we provide online workforce and professional development training through SOFEI Online. Please visit to learn more.