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Greenville Region Workforce Collaborative

Joining the National Fund in 2011 through a SIF grant, the Greenville Region Workforce Collaborative (GRWC) serves Greenville County and intends to build collaboration with the surrounding counties that make up the labor shed. The collaborative will focus on transportation fabrication within the advanced manufacturing sector, based on a strong manufacturing presence in its region and the sector’s strong growth outlook.

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Delta Workforce Funding Collaborative

The Delta Workforce Funding Collaborative serves a rural, 14-county region along the northwestern Mississippi Delta. The sector focus of this collaborative will be health care and manufacturing. It proposes to support a variety of jobseeker services from career navigation to literacy and contextualized employability training. It will also support employers through skill needs assessments, career pathway development and job seeker screening.

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National Fund Welcomes Increased Employer Support for the Skills for America's Future Initiative

06/08/2011

| BY National Fund Staff

Fred Dedrick, Executive Director of the National Fund for Workforce Solutions, issued the following statement today welcoming the President's announcement of increased support for the

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National Job Training Partnership Welcomes President’s Announced Expansion of Skills for America’s Future

Employer engagement and leadership is critical to success of public and private job training initiatives

Date:

June 8, 2011

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Strategies for Engaging Unions and Employers

Submitted by National Fund Staff on May 16, 2011 - 14:31

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

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Recorded presentation 1/11/11

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

Submitted by Shannon on May 16, 2011 - 14:28

Webinar Date:

March 8, 2011

Facilitator and Presenter: Laura Sugerman

Presenters: Deanna Hodges, Donna Addkinson, Camille Cormier

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Recording 3/08/11

Pathways out of Poverty: Green Institute Follow Up

Submitted by Shannon on May 16, 2011 - 14:21

Webinar Date:

May 10, 2011

Facilitator: Deborah Kobes, Jobs for the Future

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Webinar Recording

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Pathways out of Poverty, April Webinar

Submitted by Shannon on May 16, 2011 - 14:18

Webinar Date:

April 12, 2011

Facilitator/presenter: Ragini Kapadia

Other Presenters: Tommy Burress and Tom Gannon

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April Webinar Recording

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Employer Engagement Strategies

Submitted by National Fund Staff on May 16, 2011 - 14:04

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?

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Employer Engagement Webinar

Webinar Files:

Employer_Engagement_051111.pdf

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Tervis to launch career development effort

Media Pub Date:

May 2, 2011 (All day)

Media Link:

http://www.bizjournals.com/tampabay/news/2011/05/03/tervis-to-launch-career-deve...

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Tampa Bay Business Journal

The Tampa Bay Business Journal covered an effort by CareerEdge and Tervis, a local employer, to place jobseekers and assist incumbent workers with career ladder.

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Congressman Visits Workforce Central, Meets with Displaced Workers

05/10/2011

| BY National Fund Staff

U.S. Rep. Sean Duffy recently visited Workforce Central to meet with displaced workers and learn about the successful public-private partnership Workforce Central has built. This is a summary of his visit (which was also covered here).

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Employers & Employees

From Assembly Line to Supervisor, with Help from Workforce Development

04/14/2011

| BY National Fund Staff

The Workforce Solutions Collaborative of Metro Hartford passed along this success story:

If not for her impacted wisdom teeth, who knows where Danielle George would be today.

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Developing and Using Industry-Recognized Credentials

Submitted by National Fund Staff on March 29, 2011 - 10:54

Webinar Date:

March 24, 2011

Presenters: John Hattery, Steve Maloney, and Joseph C. Vargo

Discuss strategies that workforce development practitioners in the construction, manufacturing and "green" sectors can use to support developing and using industry recognized credentials:

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Recording 3/24/11

Webinar Files:

PPT_webinar_032411.pptx

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Federal grant to support training for health care, auto work Read more: Federal grant to support training for health care, auto work | Business First

Media Pub Date:

February 23, 2011 (All day)

Media Link:

http://www.bizjournals.com/louisville/news/2011/02/23/federal-grant-to-support-t...

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Business First

Business First covered the Social Fund Innovation subgrant award made to the Working Partners of Greater Louisville. Louisville was one of six new communites in the south and southwest added to the National Fund through this second around of SIF subgrant awards.

Supporting Apprenticeship Retention & Completion

Submitted by Shannon on February 23, 2011 - 14:13

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

Webinar Link:

https://jff.webex.com/jff/ldr.php?AT=pb&SP=MC&rID=20306912&rKey=714ef46d73f5ec74

Webinar Files:

Webinar_PPT_021711.pdf

Mobile-based worker training council gets new money for southwest Alabama programs

Media Pub Date:

February 15, 2011 (All day)

Media Link:

http://blog.al.com/press-register-business/2011/02/mobile-based_worker_training_...

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Mobile Press-Register

The Mobile Press-Register reported that a "Mobile-based group that coordinates worker training in eight southwest Alabama counties has won $300,000 to help connect low-wage workers to training opportunities and improve employer involvement in deciding what skills are taught." The Southwest Alabama Workforce Development Council in Mobile, Alabama was one of

Greenville collaboration wins $300,000 grant

Media Pub Date:

February 16, 2011 (All day)

Media Link:

http://www.greenvilleonline.com/article/20110215/NEWS/302150042

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Greenville News

The Greenville News reported (paid subscription req'd.) that the "Greenville Regional Funding Collaborative was one of six communities to receive $300,000 to create innovation approaches to training and career development needs" as part of the National Fund's implementation of the Social Innovation Fund grant that it received last year.

Six Communities in South, Southwest to receive $1.8 Million to Develop Innovative Approaches to Training and Career Development

Awards Represent Distribution from Federal Government's Social Innovation Fund

Date:

February 15, 2011

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Discussion with Workforce Central

02/08/2011

| BY National Fund Staff

Recently, we sat down with Jennifer Riggenbach from Workforce Central, the Regional Collaborative in Central Wisconsin, to discuss what her collaborative does and the impact that its having in rural Wisconsin.

Pretend we're a potential supporter of the collaborative. Give us your elevator speech about what your collaborative does.

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CareerEdge Funders Collaborative Manatee & Sarasota

The goal of the CareerEdge Funders Collaborative Manatee & Sarasota is to make targeted investments in specific industry sectors that will support the movement of at least 300 people into promising, career-oriented jobs, support at least 10 area employers in their efforts to train and advance employees into middle skill jobs, serve as a regional knowledge resource – conducting research and impact assessments and publishing findings that inform regional workforce development strategies -- and stimulate greater regional planning and cooperation.

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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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http://www.nationalskillscoalition.org/homepage-archive/employer-fly-in.html

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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."

National Designation for Local Workforce Collaborative

Media Pub Date:

September 30, 2010 (All day)

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National Designation for Local Workforce Collaborative

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The Maddux Report News Wire

The Maddux Report also reported that the Manatee Sarasota Workforce Funders Collaborative has joined the National Fund as its newest site.

National Designation for Local Workforce Collaborative

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National Designation for Local Workforce Collaborative

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City of Bradenton

The City of Bradenton published news that the Manatee Sarasota Workforce Funders Collaborative has become the National Fund's newest Regional Collaborative.