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New Report Makes Data Work for Community-Based Workforce Programs
A new report from the national Benchmarking Project offers an unprecedented opportunity to examine the results of community-based organizations’ (CBOs) efforts to help jobseekers find and keep employment. The Benchmarking Project launched in... Read more
Community College Transformation: Staying Relevant in a Changing Economy
Nearly half the nation’s college students are enrolled in community colleges. Policymakers and employers have come to realize that these colleges play a crucial role in a changing economy and have placed more pressure than ever before on these... Read more
New Report Offers a Snapshot of Sector Strategies Today
More than half the nation’s states are exploring or implementing sector strategies— partnerships of employers within one industry that bring together government, education, training, economic development, labor and community... Read more
Building a Detroit Jobs Alliance
We recently marked an important milestone in our efforts to build a Detroit jobs alliance, an alliance of stakeholders who collectively have a measurable impact on Detroit's ability to connect the skill and employment needs of its residents with... Read more
Dr. Keith W. Bird Urges Creation of Competency-Based Skills Credentials
Dr. Keith W. Bird, senior policy fellow for workforce and postsecondary education and American National Standards Institute (ANSI) board member, has called for the establishment of a new postsecondary training system that would award industry-... Read more
Greener Reality: Jobs, Skills, and Equity in a Cleaner US Economy
Defining equity, sustainability, and greater democratization as critical elements of a truly greener future, the newly released paper considers the practical and political challenges to achieving these in the U.S. Read more
Audio Update on the Role of State Sector Strategies
On September 25th, CSW joined the National Skills Coalition and the National Governor's Association (NGA) to discuss the role of state sector strategies with experts from the field who have championed these efforts. The direction of the call is... Read more
Update: One-Stop Center Reinvention Urgently Needed
In March, we shared our concept paper for reinventing One-Stop career centers in order to test our ideas, generate discussion, and refine the concept. After listening to policy leaders, practitioners working in the field, and local Workforce... Read more
Recent Contributions to a Book on Sustainability
Jeannine La Prad and Michael DiRamio recently shared our community-based job creation framework through their contribution of two chapters in a forthcoming book on sustainability in the US, Acting as if Tomorrow Matters: Accelerating the Transition... Read more
Clinton Global Initiative America Meeting Addresses Pressing Economic Issues
CSW board members Andrew Brower and Donna Gambrell and president Jeannine LaPrad attended the 2012 Clinton Global Initiative America Meeting in June in Chicago. This second annual meeting was dedicated to forging collaborative solutions and... Read more