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Press Releases from the National Fund

Knight Foundation invests $1.1 million in National Fund for Workforce Solutions, Building on Community-Based Efforts to Promote Jobs and Careers,

August 25, 2010
Social Innovation Fund Grant Will Allow NFWS to Expand Assistance to Additional 23,000 Low Income Individuals,

July 22, 2010
National Fund for Workforce Solutions Documenting Innovation in Getting Americans Back to Work, New Evaluation Data Reveal,

June 16, 2010
Council on Foundations’ Highest Award Goes to National Fund for Workforce Solutions,

April 27, 2010
Fred Dedrick, After Leading Pennsylvania's Innovative Worker Training Approach, Takes the Helm at the National Fund for Workforce Solutions,

March 16, 2010

National Fund and National Fund Sites in the News

National Fund Executive Director Fred Dedrick penned this post on the role of philanthropy in developing new approaches to putting people back to work for the Council on Foundations' Re:Philanthropy blog.

The Greater Cincinnati Workforce Network was a featured part of this story on the new age of manufacturing in The Cincinnati Enquirer on September 6, 2010.

Loh-Sze Leung, executive director of SkillWorks, the National Fund regional collaborative in Boston, is the co-author of "Time, Skill, Needed to Fix Economy," an op-ed in the Boston Herald (Aug. 8, 2010) discussing the skills gap and its impact on the Massachusetts economy.

The Bradenton Herald (FL) reports (Aug. 5, 2010) on a site visit by Fred Dedrick, National Fund Executive Director, to the CareerEdge Funders Collaborative Manatee Sarasota.

Coverage of National Fund sites receiving the Distinguished Grantmaking Award for Collaboration includes the Wichita Business Journal (April 28, 2010) reporting on the Preparation for Aviation and Advanced Career Employment System (PACES), the funding collaborative in Wichita. Four local newspapers (The Times-Virginian, the Alta-Vista Journal, the Star-Tribune, and the Union-Star [April 30, 2010]) covered the fact that the Dan River Region Collaborative, based in Danville, VA, took part in receiving the award.

The Medical Assistant Training Program of the North County Health Services, supported by the San Diego Workforce Funders Collaborative, is featured in the July 4, 2010 issue of the North County Times.