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WCPO: Work of Collaborative Paying Off, Training Workers in Cincinnati

03/29/2011
| BY National Fund Staff

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United Way to assume oversight of Greater Cincinnati Workforce Network

Media Pub Date: 
January 18, 2011 (All day)
Media Link: 
http://www.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/news/2011/01/18/united-way-to-assume-overs...
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Business Courier

The Business Courier recently reported on changes to management at the Greater Cincinnati Workforce Network that will enable it to expand its efforts.

Work force network gets $600K grant to strengthen training

Media Pub Date: 
December 10, 2010 (All day)
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http://www.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/news/2010/12/10/work-force-network-gets-60...
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Business Courier

The Business Courier reported that the Greater Cincinnati Workforce Network will receive $600,000 from the National Fund "over two years to expand its innovative approaches to job training and career support" of part of the National Fund's grant from the Social Innovation Fund.

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

Awards Represent Distribution from Federal Government’s Social Innovation Fund

Date: 
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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National Fund Site Part of Effort to Secure Federal Grant to Help Ex-Inmates Secure Jobs

09/10/2010
| BY National Fund Staff

The Greater Cincinnati Workforce Network joined with 19 other community partners to provide $880,000 in local matching funds to secure a federal Second Chance Act Offender Reentry Demonstration grant of nearly $750,000, the Cincinnati Enquirer reported earlier this week.

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Grant to help ex-inmates get jobs

Media Pub Date: 
September 5, 2010 (All day)
Media Link: 
http://news.cincinnati.com/article/20100905/NEWS0108/9060302/Grant-to-help-ex-in...
Media Publisher: 
The Cincinnati Enquirer

The Greater Cincinnati Workforce Network was part of a collaborative effort that leveraged $880,000 in local funds to secure a federal Second Chance Act Offender Reentry Demonstration grant of nearly $750,000, the Cincinnati Enquirer reported.

Manufacturing enters a new age

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September 6, 2010 (All day)
Media Link: 
http://news.cincinnati.com/article/20100906/BIZ01/9050363/Manufacturing-enters-a...
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The Cincinnati Enquirer

The Greater Cincinnati Workforce Network was a featured part of this story on the new age of manufacturing in The Cincinnati Enquirer on September 6, 2010.

How to get Employers Engaged in the Professional Development of Frontline Workers

Submitted by National Fund Staff on April 27, 2010 - 10:40
Webinar Date: 
April 20, 2010

Speakers:
William T. Lecher, Senior Clinical Director, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
Michael Paruta, Director of the Workforce Development Division, Women & Infants Hospital

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Greater Cincinnati Workforce Network: 2009 Annual Evaluation Report

Tool Topic: 
Evaluation
Tool Pub Date: 
January 15, 2010 - 12:00
Tool Author: 
Greater Cincinnati Workforce Network
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Greater Cincinnati Workforce Network: First Year Progress Report

Tool Topic: 
Evaluation
Tool Pub Date: 
October 15, 2009 - 12:00
Tool Author: 
Greater Cincinnati Workforce Network
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Greater Cincinnati Workforce Network

The Greater Cincinnati Workforce Network addresses workforce skills gaps by preparing low-skilled adults for better jobs and long-term careers in priority industries; improving employers’ abilities to recruit, train, retain and advance employees to mid-level skilled jobs to fill critical occupational shortages in priority industries; and creating and sustaining a durable coordinating mechanism to improve and align the policies, strategies and resources of the Tristate region's workforce development system.

The collaborative’s work seeks to serve:

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