Promising Practices

Targeted to new sites, but open to all, this webinar will present different approaches taken by currently funded NFWS sites to organize their funding collaboratives, including:  the governance structure, decision-making processes, sub-committees, staffing, by -laws and other pertinent information

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Beyond just employment, the National Fund is emphasizing career advancement for lower-skilled adults through sector-based workforce partnerships.  Yet, how are these operational coalitions helping to move low-income, lower-skilled job-seekers and incumbent workers into the mid-skilled jobs that employers need to fill?

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Learn more in this session about connecting learners to technology-based literacy tools and other learning resources in your workforce development programs.

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Chris Benner and Workforce Learning Strategies presents the first of two proposed webinars discussing the economic and labor market analysis data for selected NFWS sites. For stakeholders involved with the NFWS, this data is likely to be most useful when it is treated as simply one window into understanding a regional economy.  It should be supplemented with other detailed information on particularly regional markets and industry, such as that obtained through talking with employers, industry specialists, and other local labor market experts.

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The Benchmarking Project of Public/Private Ventures (P/PV) seeks to help organizations answer questions about their job placement program, retention results, etc. and in the longer term to identify meaningful outcome benchmarks for the workforce development field, so that practitioners, funders and, policymakers can be better informed about what constitutes “good” performance when working with diverse populations and service delivery strategies.

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Community Colleges as Workforce Intermediaries:  Community Colleges are becoming increasingly important in workforce development and as resources for helping low-skilled people gain meaningful credentials and careers. Enrollments are up dramatically nationwide and public policy now recognizes postsecondary education, especially community colleges, as a key element for helping people gain the skills to fully participate in the labor market. Many NFWS-supported collaboratives are working with community colleges often as contractors or service providers.

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