First Lady Michelle Obama describes the Social Innovation Fund this way: “By focusing on high-impact, results-oriented nonprofits, we will ensure that government dollars are spent in a way that is effective, accountable and worthy of public trust.”
Today, the White House announced that the National Fund for Workforce Solutions, with its implementation partner Jobs for the Future, has been selected as one of those high-impact nonprofit organizations. (Click...
The 22 sites of the National Fund for Workforce Solutions are working at “ground zero” of a national crisis: unemployment that appears stuck at almost 10 percent. More and more, local media are searching for innovative, local solutions. What they are finding is the National Fund.
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New evaluation data reveals that the National Fund for Workforce Solutions is helping to redefine how America can prepare low-wage workers for careers.
Keisha Monique Blake, from Baltimore, tells us what the numbers really mean.
Implementing the National Fund for Workforce Solutions: 2nd Annual National Evaluation Report offers evidence that...
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...
Today, the National Fund for Workforce Solutions was presented the highest award bestowed by the Council on Foundations: the Distinguished Grantmaking Award for Collaboration. It speaks to the leadership role that philanthropy must take in helping America’s workers and businesses succeed in a post-recession economy. Even more important, it speaks to how the National Fund operates.
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Today, Fred Dedrick, most recently the Deputy Secretary for Workforce Development in Pennsylvania, takes over as the first Executive Director of the National Fund for Workforce Solutions.
He brings more than 20 years experience to a...
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 the potential of the nation’s health care system to deliver affordable, accessible care...
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.
In a recent video interview, Donn Weinberg, VP/Chairman-Elect and Trustee of the Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation, based in Baltimore and an original investor in the National Fund, talked about how philanthropy is helping to spark systemic change in workforce...
To paraphrase Winston Churchill, at few other times in our economic history have so many counted on so few.
Unemployment remains at a staggering level of 10 percent. In many of the communities where we are working, the percentage is much, much higher. Economists have recently reported that the past decade was the worst for the U.S. economy in modern times. Since, December 1999, net job creation has been zero. Economic output increased by the least amount in any decade since the 1930s...
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, employers, community-based organizations, and organized labor nationwide. A new report tells us that the...
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