A fundamental step in creating career pathways — and in any complex cross-sector collaboration — is deciding how to measure and track outcomes.
NYC First Lady Chirlane McCray recently announced that 126 companies, in partnership with the Center for Youth Employment, will host 500 students in paid internships this summer.
Last year, Livingston County and Flint, Michigan, located 45 minutes apart by car, each had a resource the other desperately needed.
Local leaders are working collectively to build bridges to opportunity that put people on the path to a family-sustaining wage and stable, rewarding careers.
Clear governance structures provide direction while ensuring equity and inclusivity to resolve power imbalances that can arise during collaboration.
A new video from the Fund for Our Economic Future (Fund NEO) highlights workforce development in Northeast Ohio and the need for both growth and opportunity for the region to prosper.
This video highlights Clean Energy Works Portland – a pilot program, which we profiled in a recent case study, that saves energy and creates high-quality jobs for Portland residents.
PCW has proven to be a game-changer in linking low-wage workers and jobseekers to the training and credentialing programs that lead to good jobs.
There is clear potential for intersector collaboration to foster infrastructure jobs, both directly through technical education programs like P-TECH, and indirectly through projects requiring infrastructure design and maintenance, like Colton Crossing.
My own response – unsurprisingly – was to observe that intersector collaboration, in the process of resolving specific problems like environmental conservation and infrastructure, also indirectly addresses the broader problems of unemployment.