JFF’s Possible Futures prepares learners in grades 6 through 10 for the future. Access and exposure to productive, family-supporting work play a critical role in our lives. However, as the labor market changes, fewer educators…
We provide custom services and user-friendly tech tools to help students find a career pathway that suits their interests and fills regional employer needs. Best Bet Services provide youth, teachers and counselors, school districts, community…
Our national movement transforms how U.S. education and workforce systems prepare young people for meaningful careers. With over a decade of leadership in the pathways movement, we bring incomparable expertise, collaboration, and a relentless curiosity…
Working together can lead to tangible rewards. But it can be challenging to create partnerships across organizations with different missions, cultures, practices, funding sources, and approaches. Many community colleges and public workforce organizations have overcome…
How Workforce Boards Can Engage in Registered Apprenticeship The webinar provided an opportunity for workforce boards to gain new insight on how to engage with industry to develop and sustain the pipeline for apprenticeship programs.…
Today's Realities—Tomorrow's Workforce: Addressing Region 7's Rural Workforce Mismatch The rural counties of Region 7, a sub-state area designated by the state of Alabama to address workforce development issues, has yet to fully recover from…
Job shadowing can inspire students and expand their knowledge of job opportunities, so they make better career decisions. This report, one of a series, explores the effective job shadowing model used by Wonderful Agriculture Career…
Students in The Wonderful Company’s Agriculture Career Prep program show impressive gains, as 89% of participating freshman are on track for a college degree. This report, one of a series, offers five key principals to…
Work-based learning helps alleviate a common issue for jobseekers: meeting a “relevant work experience” prerequisite that is hard to gain outside of the workplace. Americans seeking employment often face a conundrum: relevant work experience is…