New York

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.

JFF, along with several partners, has researched the question of how workforce intermediaries might use existing or new funding sources to finance their core functions. JFF prepared these working papers for Investing in Workforce Intermediaries, a collaboration of the Annie E. Casey and Ford foundations. Since 2004, the foundations, working with JFF, have led a pilot effort to create a national support infrastructure for workforce intermediaries.

The New York City Workforce Innovations Funders Group is a consortium of foundations that have pooled their resources with the New York City Department of Small Business Services to address a range of workforce development issues. One of the group’s leading strategies is the Sectors Initiative. The goal of the New York City Sectors Initiative is to create a new model of workforce development for the city that links workforce and economic development strategies and investments.