More than 170 Kansans representing business and industry, educational institutions, and workforce development organizations recently gathered to learn how to advance Career Pathways strategies. Hosted by the Workforce Alliance of South Central Kansas’ Preparation for Advanced Career Employment System (PACES) Collaborative and supported by more than one dozen partner organizations, the 2012...
Blog posts by National Fund Staff
2012-04-12
Congratulations to the Milwaukee Area Workforce Funding Alliance on being awarded the Northern Trust Navigator Award at the Milwaukee Awards in Neighborhood Development Innovation hosted by the Milwaukee LISC. See the video showcasing their work below.
Fred Dedrick, Executive Director of the National Fund for Workforce Solutions, issued the following statement today welcoming the President's announcement of...
Today, Fred Dedrick, most recently the Deputy Secretary for Workforce Development in Pennsylvania, takes over as the...
Day two at Rx for the Health Care Workforce, and the goal today is to think about the way the 90 leaders here—representing employers, labor, government, philanthropy, and the nonprofit sectors—think about scale up and sustainability. In other words, public policy.
The opportunity is great: as yesterday showed, future investments in building a skilled health care workforce can draw on...
Today is the start of a two-day meeting that both draws on the experience of the National Fund for Workforce Solutions and could provide important suggestions on how the Fund and its affiliates could move forward on a policy agenda to help low-wage employees succeed and businesses compete. Called Rx for the Health Care Workforce, the meeting’s goal is to address a central challenge to...
We’ve often said that what may be most unique about the National Fund for Workforce Solutions is how many national, regional, and local funders have joined together to help employees succeed and businesses compete.
The National Fund for Workforce Solutions could best be thought of as an enabler of solutions. The foundations, along with the U.S. Department of Labor, that started the National Fund sought to learn how promising practices for preparing workers for careers could be taken to scale nationwide.
To do that, they relied on the creativity and entrepreneurial drive of local funders,...
A persistent challenge at large urban hospitals is retaining frontline workers. From lab techs to nurses, these employees are invaluable to a hospital’s operation, but we have failed in offering a critical incentive to retaining and training these workers: a career path. Can investments in career path programs yield tangible bottom line results for the hospital? Can such investments yield...