Speakers:
Wendy Merrick, Program Director, West Central Initiative
Bill Martinson, Business Development Specialist, Enterprise Minnesota
Webinars
Industrialized Workforce Development for Manufacturers
May 20, 2010
How to get Employers Engaged in the Professional Development of Frontline Workers
April 20, 2010
Speakers:
William T. Lecher, Senior Clinical Director, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
Michael Paruta, Director of the Workforce Development Division, Women & Infants Hospital
Green Affinity Group webinar: HUD Recovery Act Energy Performance Contracting Program
March 31, 2010
Manufacturing Affinity Group: Building a Diverse Workforce in Manufacturing
March 18, 2010
Advanced Manufacturing Affinity Group Webinar
February 25, 2010
NFWS Evaluation Webinar
December 15, 2009
Green Jobs Affinity Group Webinar
December 14, 2009
Manufacturing Affinity Group Webinar
December 10, 2009
Practice Webinar: NFWS Collaboratives and Community College Partnerships
November 10, 2009
Community Colleges as Workforce Intermediaries: Community Colleges are becoming increasingly important in workforce development and as resources for helping low-skilled people gain meaningful credentials and careers. Enrollments are up dramatically nationwide and public policy now recognizes postsecondary education, especially community colleges, as a key element for helping people gain the skills to fully participate in the labor market. Many NFWS-supported collaboratives are working with community colleges often as contractors or service providers.
How can NFWS collaboratives deepen their work with community colleges?
Manufacturing Affinity Group Webinar
October 22, 2009
Policy Webinar: New Financing for Workforce Partnerships; Lessons from the NFWS Alternative Financing State Policy Advocacy Projects
October 13, 2009
In summer 2008, NFWS funded three regional funding collaboratives to advocate for and implement new mechanisms for funding workforce partnerships. The Bay Area Workforce Funders Collaborative and the New York City Workforce Innovation Fund worked to implement a Food Stamp Employment and Training fund model, and the Pennsylvania Fund for Workforce Solutions worked to implement a state-level fund financed through assessments on employers linked to the UI system. Representatives from each of these projects will describe the alternative financing mechanisms they implemented and/or advocated for, their projects, successes and challenges they experienced, lessons learned and their next steps.
Practice Webinar: Fundraising for Funder Collaboratives
September 18, 2009
Manufacturing Affinity Group Webinar
September 17, 2009
Policy Advocacy Webinar: Perspectives from The Workforce Alliance
August 11, 2009
Participants will learn how The Workforce Alliance (TWA), a national coalition focused on workforce development policy, determines and implements its national policy advocacy strategy. Jobs for the Future is hosting this webinar as part of a series to assist NFWS collaboratives in learning about models for developing and implementing a policy agenda. TWA is a coalition of community-based organizations, community colleges, unions, business leaders and local officials advocating for public policies that invest in the skills of America's workers, so they can better support their families and help American businesses better compete in today's economy.
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BPB Public PPT on Iowa Poll 4-06
Elements and Examples of Successful Coalitions
NYS TANF career pathways proposal
TWA Jan-Dec 08 Annual Report Public Version
Webinar: Microsoft Software Donation
July 29, 2009
Practice Webinar: "The Benchmarking Project: Putting Data to Work"
July 14, 2009
The Benchmarking Project of Public/Private Ventures (P/PV) seeks to help organizations answer questions about their job placement program, retention results, etc. and in the longer term to identify meaningful outcome benchmarks for the workforce development field, so that practitioners, funders and, policymakers can be better informed about what constitutes “good” performance when working with diverse populations and service delivery strategies.
Policy Webinar: "The Working Poor Families Project and NFWS"
June 23, 2009
The webinar features NFWS regional collaboratives that have collaborated with the Working Poor Families Project on their state policy agendas.
Evaluation Webinar
June 16, 2009
Chris Benner and Workforce Learning Strategies presents the first of two proposed webinars discussing the economic and labor market analysis data for selected NFWS sites. For stakeholders involved with the NFWS, this data is likely to be most useful when it is treated as simply one window into understanding a regional economy. It should be supplemented with other detailed information on particularly regional markets and industry, such as that obtained through talking with employers, industry specialists, and other local labor market experts.
Green-collar Jobs Webinar: Workforce Needs in Residential Energy Efficiency
June 5, 2009
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.
Practice Webinar: "Learner Web," A Resource for the Adult Learner and Workforce Development
May 12, 2009
Learn more in this session about connecting learners to technology-based literacy tools and other learning resources in your workforce development programs.
NFWS and the Stimulus: Talking Points and Strategies for Regional Funding Collaboratives
April 29, 2009
Policy Webinar: Post-Secondary Education Policies that Benefit Lower-Skilled and Lower-Income Working Adults-Part II
March 23, 2009
Practice Webinar: Strengthening the Connections Between Adult Literacy and Workforce Development
March 17, 2009
Policy Webinar: Summary of the Federal Stimulus Package 2009
March 3, 2009
Practice Webinar: How Workforce Partnerships Promote Career Advancement for Lower-Skilled Adults
January 26, 2009
Beyond just employment, the National Fund is emphasizing career advancement for lower-skilled adults through sector-based workforce partnerships. Yet, how are these operational coalitions helping to move low-income, lower-skilled job-seekers and incumbent workers into the mid-skilled jobs that employers need to fill?
Evaluation Webinar: Workforce Partnerships Reporting System
January 8, 2009
Evaluation Webinar: Collaboratives Reporting System
January 7, 2009
NFWS Policy Webinar
December 16, 2008
With a new Administration and a realigned Congress, the federal policy environment in Washington, DC, is ripe for change. The National Fund has prepared by creating a policy packet that provides key materials to help summarize the National Fund, the principles on which the National Fund is based and the policy implications that stem from them, and other supporting documents. We have also begun to use these materials to raise awareness of the National Fund and supportive policy directions. JFF staff and NCEE will review the federal executive and legislative policy contexts, the policy packet materials, and recent and planned policy activities
Practice Webinar, Organizing Regional Collaboratives
December 1, 2008
Targeted to new sites, but open to all, this webinar will present different approaches taken by currently funded NFWS sites to organize their funding collaboratives, including: the governance structure, decision-making processes, sub-committees, staffing, by -laws and other pertinent information
