Regional Collaboratives

Joining the National Fund in 2011 through a SIF grant, The Southwest Alabama Workforce Development Council is a new site serving an eight-county region in Southwest Alabama. Proposed services include skills training and any other necessary services to support the advancement of lower skilled adults.

The New Orleans Regional Workforce Funders Collaborative joined the National Fund in 2011 after receiving a SIF sub-grant. The collaborative will serve the Greater New Orleans region, which consists of eight parishes of Jefferson, Orleans, Plaquemines, St. Bernard, St. Charles, St. James, St. John the Baptist, and St. Tammany.

The mission of the Greater Newark Workforce Funders Collaborative is to create innovative, sustainable workforce development solutions in northern New Jersey that enable low-skilled workers to advance in careers and businesses to compete. The Collaborative’s goal is to fuel high-impact workforce partnerships that enable low-skilled adults and incumbent workers to transcend road blocks to careers in key industry sectors such as healthcare and transportation, logistics and distribution.

Working Partners joined the National Fund through a SIF grant awarded in 2011 to Louisville and five other communities in the South. The Collaborative serves a region that includes 26 counties along the I-65 corridor in Kentucky and Southern Indiana. Working Partners also provides skills assessments, career pathways, and training opportunities to job seekers and incumbent worker tailored to the needs identified by employer partnerships in the targeted sectors.

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.

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.