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Detroit and Southeast Michigan Fund for Innovative Workforce Solutions

The Detroit Regional Workforce Fund is a regional public/private collaborative that supports partnerships among employers and workforce development partners (workforce partnerships), effects change in the region’s strategic workforce vision, and aligns public and private resources in new ways around workforce development.

The goals of the Detroit Regional Workforce Fund are, by audience:

Green-collar Jobs Webinar: Workforce Needs in Residential Energy Efficiency

Submitted by nfwsuser on February 5, 2010 - 01:40
Webinar Date: 
June 5, 2009

Kevin Doyle, who led the New England Clean Energy Council research team that completed a study that calculates direct workforce needs from major new investments in residential energy efficiency in Massachusetts, will present the workforce needs results and how other states and metropolitan areas can use similar research to generate realistic assessments of job creation and retention through investments in residential energy efficiency.

Webinar Link: 
Click here to listen to the recorded webinar

Clean Energy Sector Jobs Initiative RFP

Tool Topic: 
RFP
Tool Pub Date: 
January 8, 2009 - 19:00
Tool Author: 
Living Cities
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Clean Energy Sector Jobs Initiative RFP

Keystone Development Partnership

The proposed Keystone Development Partnership would bring together the state’s largest unionized utilities and utility unions, starting with a focus on the electric utility industry. Its mission would be to promote the competitiveness of the affiliated employers and the retention and growth of family sustaining careers. The KDP will organize joint policy steering committees for each employer, and they will include managers and union officers.

Energy Industry Partnership Building Grant

This is an exploratory partnership in the energy/extraction industries to: determine the appropriateness and need for an Energy Industry Partnership; bring together key industry leaders, workforce and economic development, and education representatives to form a focus group; increase and expand knowledge of the industry’s needs relating to its future workforce; inventory knowledge-based skills through relevant career paths; and ensure that education is aware of the required skills for the industry.

Workforce Solutions Collaborative of Metro Hartford

The Workforce Solutions Collaborative of Metro Hartford (WSCMH) is a public/private partnership focused on promoting an educated, economically self-sufficient workforce with the skills needed by area employers. The collaborative assists lower-income workers in advancing toward economic self-sufficiency as measured by wage increase, skill progression, credential attainment, promotion, and sustained employment.

Funding Collaborative Accomplishments

Advancing workers in manufacturing

SkillBuild Colorado

SkillBuild Colorado supports career advancement opportunities for entry-level workers, improves the capacity of employers in high-demand industries to identify and retain a qualified workforce, and promotes workforce development public policy changes that improve economic prosperity for businesses, incumbent workers and job seekers.

Funding Collaborative Accomplishments

Since 2008, SkillBuild has leveraged over $2 million in local resources to:

Skill Up Washington

Skill Up Washington supports employers and working families in the Seattle-King County area by:

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