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Addressing Healthcare Workforce Challenges Turns Competitors Into Collaborators

05/05/2011
| BY National Fund Staff

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.

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Baltimore Workforce Funders Collaborative to Receive $600,000 from National Fund for Workforce Solutions

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December 7, 2010 (All day)
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Citybizlist Baltimore

Citybizlist, a news service in Baltimore, highlighted the recent $600,000 two-year award made by the National Fund to the Baltimore Workforce Funders Collaborative as part of the National Fund's grant from the Social Innovation.

10 Communities to Receive $5.5 Million to Strengthen Unique Approaches to Workforce Training

Awards Represent Distribution from Federal Government’s Social Innovation Fund

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December 2, 2010
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Existing National Fund Sites Receive Social Innovation Fund Subgrants

12/02/2010
| BY Fred Dedrick

The Social Innovation Fund supports high-performing organizations developing innovative solutions to social problems. Earlier this year, the National Fund was among the very first organizations selected to receive a grant through the Social Innovation Fund, highlighting the importance of our work and the potential it offers for identifying and bringing innovative workforce solutions to scale.

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Philanthropy’s Unique Role in the National Fund

02/17/2010
| BY National Fund Staff

We’ve often said that what may be most unique about the National Fund for Workforce Solutions is how many national, regional, and local funders have joined together to help employees succeed and businesses compete.

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From Housekeeping to Hospital President

01/26/2010
| BY National Fund Staff

A persistent challenge at large urban hospitals is retaining frontline workers. From lab techs to nurses, these employees are invaluable to a hospital’s operation, but we have failed in offering a critical incentive to retaining and training these workers: a career path. Can investments in career path programs yield tangible bottom line results for the hospital? Can such investments yield career paths for workers who once had none? If done the right way, workforce investments can accomplish both goals.

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Baltimore Alliance for Careers in Healthcare

The Baltimore Alliance for Careers in Healthcare (BACH) has two primary strategies: ensuring that the pipeline of incumbent workers and unemployed city residents moving into health care jobs is improved; and ensuring that effective strategies for retaining health care workers are identified and implemented.

Biotechnical Institute of Maryland

The Biotech Institute of Maryland partners with more than 29 life sciences companies in the region to provide low-income adults with tuition-free lab training, college credit, and jobs with family-supporting wages and benefits.

BTI offers both BioStart, a 12-week bridge program to increase basic academic skills and knowledge of the biotech industry, as well as a more advanced Lab Associates program. Lab Associates is a 9-week training program that leads its graduates to both a 100-hour internship in the industry and then a full-time placement in the field.

Jumpstart

The Jumpstart Pre-Apprenticeship Program provides low-income community residents sponsored by specific employers with an 87-hour, pre-apprenticeship course for electricians, plumbers, and carpenters.

Funder Collaboratives: A Philanthropic Strategy for Supporting Workforce Intermediaries

Across the country, funder collaboratives pool funds to foster the formation and expansion of workforce intermediaries and to advocate for policies that will sustain these new organizations. The power of these collaboratives comes not just from the funds they bring to programs but, even more crucially, from the alignment of civic leadership around a common vision for the community. This report was prepared for Investing in Workforce Intermediaries, itself a collaboration of the Annie E. Casey, Rockefeller, and Ford foundations.

Overview: Baltimore Workforce Collaborative

Baltimore Alliance for Careers in Healthcare Biotechnical Institute of Maryland Jumpstart

The Baltimore Workforce Collaborative is an alliance of 70 organizations that are collaborating to improve the economic health of the city of Baltimore by developing a workforce system that prepares city residents for skilled positions with employers who are experiencing critical workforce shortages.

Baltimore Workforce Funders Collaborative

The Baltimore Workforce Funders Collaborative is a public/private partnership of investors dedicated to advancing the labor market prospects of unemployed and under-employed Baltimore City residents while meeting the needs of the region’s employers for a skilled workforce.

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