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How Workforce Boards Show the Way Toward the Future of Work
Future-focused workforce leaders excel in today’s rapidly changing world. About Future-Focused Workforce Boards In addition to clarifying the challenges and opportunities facing the workforce development system, AWAKE’s interviews with workforce board leaders revealed a clear…
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Human-Centered: Putting People Before Procedures
Future-Focused Workforce Board Behaviors | Workforce boards that design and implement human-centered systems and processes ensure that all people, regardless of their situation, have equitable access to services and opportunities. View the Full Brief Workforce…
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Opportunity-Oriented: Imagining What Could Be, Not Accepting What Is
Future-Focused Workforce Board Behaviors | Workforce boards that actively seek out new opportunities can increase their influence and expand the range of services they help make available to their communities. View the Full Brief Too…
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Tech-Enabled: Using New Tools to Build Better Organizations
Future-Focused Workforce Board Behaviors | Future Workforce boards that embrace the use of new tools and technologies can improve service delivery and increase equity and access within their communities. View the Full Brief Technology drives…
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Data-Obsessed: Analyzing, Understanding, and Preparing for Change
Future-Focused Workforce Board Behaviors | Workforce boards that collect and analyze a wealth of data are able to keep pace with and, in some cases, anticipate constantly changing regional dynamics. View the Full Brief It’s…
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César Barrios: A Career With No Limits
A workforce training program helps a Venezuelan immigrant with an American dream get his motor running. Participant Profile Cesar Barrios A workforce training program helps a Venezuelan immigrant with an American dream get his motor…
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Sarah Sanchez: New Skills, Innate Abilities
With GOAL, Sarah Sanchez combined her innate abilities with new training to further her career. Participant Profile Sarah Sanchez New Skills, Innate Abilities Sarah Sanchez has always worked to help others. When she was…
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Waves Of Change: Adapting District Strategy and Culture to Prepare All Students for the Future
Transforming traditional high schools to better prepare all graduates to succeed both in college and the new world of work is a daunting task. But it can be done—and in a relatively short period of…
Hanna Juergens
DirectorHanna Juergens is a director on the Development team at JFF. She advances JFF’s fundraising efforts through comprehensive fundraising strategies, working closely with JFF’s Center for Racial Economic Equity, Education practice, and Employer Mobilization practice. …