National Fund Sites in the News

There are a thousand stories in the National Fund for Workforce Solutions. Well, actually based on our most recent evaluation data, at least 18,000 stories (that’s how many participants were served in 2009) – but it seemed like a catchy way to start a post about some of the recent press coverage generated by local National Fund sites.

This is a great segment that CNN recently ran about the Biotechnical Institute of Maryland, a project training low-income residents of Baltimore for jobs as lab techs in the biotech industry. The Institute is supported, in part, by the Baltimore Workforce Collaborative.

And several National Fund sites generated local press coverage when the Council on Foundations awarded the prestigious Distinguished Grantmaking Award to the National Fund. The Wichita Business Journal reported that the Preparation for Aviation and Advanced Career Employment System (PACES), the funding collaborative in Wichita, is one of the award recipients. The Workforce Solutions Collaborative of Metro Hartford (CT) received good coverage in the Hartford Courant. The fact that the Dan River Region Collaborative, based in Danville, VA, took part in receiving the award was reported in four newspapers: The Times-Virginian, the Alta-Vista Journal, the Star-Tribune, and the Union-Star.

Finally, the work of the Greater Cincinnati Workforce Network is featured in a front-page article in the Cincinnati Business Courier. (You can see the first several paragraphs of the story; only paid subscribers can read the entire story.)

National Fund sites: let us know when you get good press coverage so we can share it. And when you need assistance with media relations and communications, contact us. In fact, the nice local coverage about the Distinguished Grantmaking Award came about as a result of just that sort of collaboration.