U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) called a news conference to push for the passage of his bill, the SECTORS Act. The bill would ensure that workforce training efforts meet the needs of high-growth, regional industries in Ohio and across the country.
For Immediate Release
Brown Outlines Path for Passing SECTORS Act—Which Cleared the House During the Previous Congress—During Upcoming Consideration of Workforce Investment Act (WIA) Reauthorization Bill
The National Fund for Workforce Solutions has a unique approach to workforce development. They provide grants to regional funder collaboratives that organize public-private partnerships to prepare workers and job seekers for careers and they do it with the deep involvement of employers. The model they've created is locally driven. It's unique to every region of the country where the National Fund works and every industry sector. But the strategy is always the same.
We were pleased recently to sit down with Michelle Gilliard from The Walmart Foundation for this month's Investor Profile. The Walmart Foundation is a National Investor.
Can you describe Walmart's involvement and interest in workforce development initiatives?
Fred Dedrick, Executive Director of the National Fund for Workforce Solutions, issued the following statement today welcoming the President's announcement of increased support for the
In a high rise building in the heart of downtown Seattle, Susan Crane, Executive Director of SkillUp Washington, is in her 13th floor office increasing coordination and building linkages between workforce partners.
U.S. Rep. Sean Duffy recently visited Workforce Central to meet with displaced workers and learn about the successful public-private partnership Workforce Central has built. This is a summary of his visit (which was also covered here).
The following commentary appeared in the April 4, 2011 edition of Modern Healthcare (pdf download). In it, Larry Beck and Pamela Paulk, leaders at competing hospitals in Baltimore, MD, discuss how building and supporting the health care workforce can provide a platform for competitors to collaborate on a common challenge.
For our Investor Profile this month, we talk with Microsoft. The globaltechnology company supports the National Fund through its Unlimited Potential program. Andrea L.
We were pleased today to listen in on an analyst call hosted by Root Cause regarding the Social Issue Report on Workforce Development produced by Social Impact Research (SIR), Root Cause’s independent research arm.
Recently, we sat down with Jennifer Riggenbach from Workforce Central, the Regional Collaborative in Central Wisconsin, to discuss what her collaborative does and the impact that its having in rural Wisconsin.
Pretend we're a potential supporter of the collaborative. Give us your elevator speech about what your collaborative does.
The National Fund for Workforce Solutions is at a critical, exciting moment. The grant we received from the Corporation for National and Community Service as part of its landmark Social Innovation Fund is allowing us to expand the work of many of our current collaboratives and add six to eight new sites, primarily in the South and Southwest. At this critical moment, new leadership takes the helm of the National Fund.
At a time when concern about job growth dominates the economic news, the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation has awarded a new $1.1 million grant to the National Fund for Workforce Solutions to test local approaches to preparing jobseekers and workers for careers.
The Workforce Institute, a think tank that helps organizations drive performance by addressing human capital management issues that affect both hourly and salaried employees, features the National Fund in its latest post. Perhaps most interesting, is a podcast interview with Fred Dedrick, National Fund Executive Director – Dedrick explains, in a good bit of detail, the strategic approach of the National Fund and its 23 sites.
First Lady Michelle Obama describes the Social Innovation Fund this way: “By focusing on high-impact, results-oriented nonprofits, we will ensure that government dollars are spent in a way that is effective, accountable and worthy of public trust.”
The 22 sites of the National Fund for Workforce Solutions are working at “ground zero” of a national crisis: unemployment that appears stuck at almost 10 percent. More and more, local media are searching for innovative, local solutions. What they are finding is the National Fund.
New evaluation data reveals that the National Fund for Workforce Solutions is helping to redefine how America can prepare low-wage workers for careers.
Keisha Monique Blake, from Baltimore, tells us what the numbers really mean.
There are a thousand stories in the National Fund for Workforce Solutions. Well, actually based on our most recent evaluation data, at least 18,000 stories (that’s how many participants were served in 2009) – but it seemed like a catchy way to start a post about some of the recent press coverage generated by local National Fund sites.
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For our Investor Profile this month, we talk with Microsoft. The global technology company supports the National Fund through its Unlimited Potential program. Andrea L.
Recently, we sat down with Jessica Mosier from the 
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