The California Career Pathways Trust: Sustaining Regional Cross-Sector Partnerships
The state of California made a huge investment, $500 million, when it established the California Careers Pathways Trust in 2014. This program funded regional consortia to expand career pathways for high school students to earn…
Developing Future Talent: How We Can Prepare for the Future of Work and Business
Developing Future Talent: How We Can Prepare for the Future of Work and Business To prepare a workforce for automation and the gig economy, policymakers, educators, and workforce development practitioners must address the demands of…
Work-Based Learning with Small Business
Work-based learning models offer employers an opportunity to develop a skilled local workforce Work-Based Learning: A Talent Development Opportunity for Your Small Business Useful For: Small Businesses This guide describes how and why small…
Apprenticeships: The Next Stackable Credential?
Apprenticeships: The Next Stackable Credential? This report explores how “stackable apprenticeships” can be used to structure short-term apprenticeships into a full career ladder. Extremely rare 20 years ago, now over a quarter of new Registered…
A Chapter from "13 Ideas that Are Transforming the Community College World"
JFF contributes a chapter in the upcoming book, *13 Ideas that Are Transforming the Community College World*, edited by Terry O'Banion. In the chapter, titled “Eliminating the Gap Between High School and College: What the…
Making Higher Education Policy Work for Opportunity Youth
Making Higher Education Policy Work for Opportunity Youth While the economy has improved in recent years, millions of Americans don’t have the credentials they need to secure high-quality, family-supporting jobs. This is particularly true among…
Putting Vocation at the Center of the Curriculum
Students in the Ethnographies of Work course at CUNY’s Guttman Community College become researchers, observing and analyzing workplace culture, expectations, racial norms, and other dynamics. In this report, student and employer participants share their perspectives…
Work-based Learning Toolkit: Resources from Jobs to Careers
Work-based Learning Toolkit: Resources from Jobs to Careers Access the Work-based Learning Toolkit, is a step-by-step guide to designing and implementing employee learning and career advancement projects for frontline workers. Created by Jobs for the…
More Tools for Fiscal Mapping
More Tools for Fiscal Mapping These two tools focus on effectively engaging community stakeholders in a fiscal mapping process, including a tool to help communities align and coordinate collaborative initiatives already underway.