Building on Success: Four Years of Impact 2007-2011

Every year the National Fund conducts a national evaluation of its programs.  The results of the fourth year show the National Fund and its collaborative partners are transforming how low-wage workers acquire the skills they need to obtain good careers.

What is the National Fund?

Involving more than 400 funders, the National Fund is working to bring to national scale, and evaluate, new ways to prepare workers - who don't have the needed skills - for careers that can support them and their families.

The National Fund in Cascade

The National Fund was featured in the Winter issue of Cascade published by the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia.  Read the article here.

Regional Collaboratives

Regional funding collaboratives bring together government agencies, foundations, and other philanthropic organizations to target financial resources and strategic thinking on creating jobs and careers.

Workforce Partnerships

The regional collaboratives provide funding to the workforce partnerships, whose on-the-ground projects work directly with job seekers and entry-level employees.  More >>

Latest Initiative - CareerSTAT

CareerSTAT is an initiative to document and endorse the business case for investments in frontline hospital workers and to establish an employer-led advocacy council to promote investments that yield strong skill development and career outcomes for low-wage, frontline hospital workers.

More than 40 employers representing multiple industries from across the country visited the nation's capital to discuss the challenges they face in recruiting skilled workers and to convince federal policymakers of the necessity of a bi-partisan solution to the skills gap.

Learn more about BLU here.

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Featured Workforce Partnership

West Philadelphia Skills Initiative
Philadelphia, PA

The West Philadelphia Skills Initiative 1) supports the human capital needs of West Philadelphia’s anchor institutions and mid-sized employers; and 2) connects West Philadelphians to opportunities for employment, advancement, and skill-building. 

From the Blog

2013-02-05

The newly formed Iowa Skills2Compete Coalition, has just released...

2012-12-20

On behalf of all our national investors and the NFWS staff, I want to give special thanks to everyone who has made 2012 a very successful year for the National Fund, our 30 regional funding...

2012-10-31

On October 1-2, 2012, more than 40 employers representing multiple industries from across the country visited the nation's capital to discuss the challenges they face in recruiting skilled workers...

Our Impact

The National Fund serves 32 communities that help low-wage workers succeed in good careers.  Since 2007, National Fund workforce collaboratives have served 29,654 workers and brought together more than 3,050 employers to form more than 120 workforce partnerships.
 

Our Funders