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Philanthropy’s Unique Role in the National Fund

02/17/2010
| BY National Fund Staff

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.

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  • Employers & Employees

From Housekeeping to Hospital President

01/26/2010
| BY National Fund Staff

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 career paths for workers who once had none? If done the right way, workforce investments can accomplish both goals.

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Baltimore Alliance for Careers in Healthcare

The Baltimore Alliance for Careers in Healthcare (BACH) has two primary strategies: ensuring that the pipeline of incumbent workers and unemployed city residents moving into health care jobs is improved; and ensuring that effective strategies for retaining health care workers are identified and implemented.

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Biotechnical Institute of Maryland

The Biotech Institute of Maryland partners with more than 29 life sciences companies in the region to provide low-income adults with tuition-free lab training, college credit, and jobs with family-supporting wages and benefits.

BTI offers both BioStart, a 12-week bridge program to increase basic academic skills and knowledge of the biotech industry, as well as a more advanced Lab Associates program. Lab Associates is a 9-week training program that leads its graduates to both a 100-hour internship in the industry and then a full-time placement in the field.

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Jumpstart

The Jumpstart Pre-Apprenticeship Program provides low-income community residents sponsored by specific employers with an 87-hour, pre-apprenticeship course for electricians, plumbers, and carpenters.

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Funder Collaboratives: A Philanthropic Strategy for Supporting Workforce Intermediaries

Across the country, funder collaboratives pool funds to foster the formation and expansion of workforce intermediaries and to advocate for policies that will sustain these new organizations. The power of these collaboratives comes not just from the funds they bring to programs but, even more crucially, from the alignment of civic leadership around a common vision for the community. This report was prepared for Investing in Workforce Intermediaries, itself a collaboration of the Annie E. Casey, Rockefeller, and Ford foundations.

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Overview: Baltimore Workforce Collaborative

Baltimore Alliance for Careers in Healthcare Biotechnical Institute of Maryland Jumpstart

The Baltimore Workforce Collaborative is an alliance of 70 organizations that are collaborating to improve the economic health of the city of Baltimore by developing a workforce system that prepares city residents for skilled positions with employers who are experiencing critical workforce shortages.

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Baltimore Workforce Collaborative

The Baltimore Workforce Intermediary Project is an alliance of approximately 70 organizations that are collaborating to improve the economic health of the city of Baltimore by developing a workforce system that prepares city residents for skilled positions with employers who are experiencing critical workforce shortages.

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