Financial Services

Central Iowa Works’ mission is to develop a world-class workforce system that meets the needs of both employers and workers and aligns with economic development goals. A world-class workforce system supports: unemployed and underemployed workers (including minority and disabled populations); individuals with educational, cultural, and language barriers to employment; individuals reentering the community after incarceration; and low-skilled individuals for employment in non-traditional occupations (women in the construction trades).

Private and public funders from across the state joined forces to create The Pennsylvania Fund for Workforce Solutions, which blends investments (more than $3 million to date) from private and public funders to support the goal of increasing opportunities for lower-skilled workers through grant making, capacity building, and advocacy efforts within the state’s Targeted Industry Clusters:

SkillWorks is a multi-year initiative to improve workforce development in Boston and in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. SkillWorks brings together philanthropy, government, community organizations and employers to address the twin goals of helping low-income individuals attain family supporting jobs and businesses find skilled workers. SkillWorks aims to:

The Omaha Workforce Funding Collaborative is a chamber of commerce-led initiative to strengthen linkages between workforce development services for low-income residents and economic development efforts in Greater Omaha. The initiative provides seed funding and technical assistance to promote, create, strengthen, and sustain workforce partnerships in five occupational sectors: financial services; health; information technology; transportation, distribution, warehousing and logistics; and advanced manufacturing and trades.