Kevin Doyle, who led the New England Clean Energy Council research team that completed a study that calculates direct workforce needs from major new investments in residential energy efficiency in Massachusetts, will present the workforce needs results and how other states and metropolitan areas can use similar research to generate realistic assessments of job creation and retention through investments in residential energy efficiency.
The proposed Keystone Development Partnership would bring together the state’s largest unionized utilities and utility unions, starting with a focus on the electric utility industry. Its mission would be to promote the competitiveness of the affiliated employers and the retention and growth of family sustaining careers. The KDP will organize joint policy steering committees for each employer, and they will include managers and union officers.
This is an exploratory partnership in the energy/extraction industries to: determine the appropriateness and need for an Energy Industry Partnership; bring together key industry leaders, workforce and economic development, and education representatives to form a focus group; increase and expand knowledge of the industry’s needs relating to its future workforce; inventory knowledge-based skills through relevant career paths; and ensure that education is aware of the required skills for the industry.
The Workforce Solutions Collaborative of Metro Hartford is comprised of a diverse set of stakeholders representing broad sectors of the philanthropic and workforce systems with a history of working in funders’ or programmatic collaborations intended to improve community conditions.
SkillBuild Colorado is a collective of philanthropy, business, economic, and workforce development entities with funding authority in the foothills communities that comprise the Denver metropolitan area.
