Green Sectors

Strategies for Engaging Unions and Employers

Webinar Date: 
January 11, 2011

This webinar provides an overview of strategies for engaging unions and employers in the construction sector in order to expand job opportunities and benefits for workers in the industry. It's a helpful refresher for those already working with unions in the construction sector and useful for those new to engaging labor organizations and the employers they work with.

Facilitator and Presenter:  Tommy Burress

Presenters:  Nancy Mills, Tom Gannon, Ragini Kapadia

Transforming Pink to Green: Moving Women into Jobs in the Green Economy

Webinar Date: 
March 8, 2011

Facilitator and Presenter:  Laura Sugerman

Presenters:  Deanna Hodges, Donna Addkinson, Camille Cormier

Pathways out of Poverty: Green Institute Follow Up

Webinar Date: 
May 10, 2011

 Facilitator:  Deborah Kobes, Jobs for the Future

Pathways out of Poverty, April Webinar

Webinar Date: 
April 12, 2011

Facilitator/presenter:  Ragini Kapadia

Other Presenters:  Tommy Burress and Tom Gannon

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Employer Engagement Strategies

Webinar Date: 
May 11, 2011

This National Fund Webinar addresses how industries can work with the workforce development, education and training community to create effective initiatives that meet real employer needs today while building long-term partnerships?

Presenters:  

  • Employers & Employees
  • Funders

NFWS Hosts Roundtable, Site Visit on “Skilling Up” at COF Conference

04/12/2011
| BY Anonymous

Why should foundations invest in efforts to “skill up” the American workforce?

This question provided the framework for a roundtable discussion and two site visits hosted by the National Fund for Workforce Solutions and the Job Opportunity Investment Network (JOIN)—the NFWS site in Philadelphia—at the Council on Foundations Annual Meeting, on April 11th.

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  • Employers & Employees
  • Funders
  • Policymakers

Report Recommends Sector Focus as Best General Approach to Workforce Development

03/30/2011
| BY National Fund Staff

We were pleased today to listen in on an analyst call hosted by Root Cause regarding the Social Issue Report on Workforce Development produced by Social Impact Research (SIR), Root Cause’s independent research arm.

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Supporting Apprenticeship Retention & Completion

Webinar Date: 
February 17, 2011

 

Facilitator: Allison Gerber

Presenters: Rhandi Berth, Vice President, Wisconsin Regional Training Partnership and Dr. Eric Roe, Director, Employ Florida Banner Center for Advanced Manufacturing

 

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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:

Employers Come to Washington to Promote Targeted Solution to Nation’s Skills Gap

Media Pub Date: 
November 18, 2010 (All day)
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National Skills Coalition

The National Skills Coalition recently reported on a trip co-sponsored by the National Fund during which a coalition of 17 employers from health care, construction, manufacturing, and clean energy companies met with leaders at the White House and on Capitol Hill "to discuss skill gaps in their industries, how sector partnerships can help fill those gaps, and why the SECTORS Act is a political winner with strong bipartisan support."

Green Affinity Group webinar: HUD Recovery Act Energy Performance Contracting Program

Webinar Date: 
March 31, 2010

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

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.

Green Jobs Affinity Group Webinar

Clean Energy Sector Jobs Initiative RFP

Tool Topic: 
RFP
Tool Pub Date: 
January 8, 2009 - 19:00
Tool Author: 
Living Cities

Job Opportunity Investment Network

The Job Opportunity Investment Network’s mission is to be a catalyst for matching the needs of employers with advancement opportunities for low-skilled workers by attracting and aligning investments of charitable foundations. JOIN will advocate for policies that sustain workforce partnerships and enhance the advancement prospects of low-skilled adults.

Skill Up Washington

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

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