How Rural Colorado Is Building Jobs So Locals Can Stay
This brief looks at how a tech-and-workforce hub is bringing career support—and jobs—to rural areas in Colorado, so the young people living there don’t have to leave. This is the third in a series on…
Local Talent
A California program seeks to shrink primary care deserts by building a clear path from community college to medical school and then back home again. Also, practical advice for state…
Ambassador to Business
The community college that leads the nation on Workforce Pell approvals teams up with its biggest corporate neighbor to build a training alliance with local businesses. Also, two new podcast…
Building the Workforce Nobody Knew They Could Join
This brief looks at how public-private partnerships are building up the systems engineering workforce in Colorado. It is the second in a series about a $90M grant program that invested…
Workforce Pell Gets ROI Half Right. States Need to Do the Rest.
Federal metrics can’t distinguish between programs that fail students and those that are training essential workers for jobs the market systematically underpays. States need to do better.
Technician Training
An unusual nonprofit bets big on earn-and-learn to build on Ohio’s recent industrial wins, with an initial focus on technician roles. Also, a former principal developed a curriculum to teach…
News and Highlights
Workforce Pell’s slow rollout and employer-led partnerships in Colorado. Also, recent news and highlights.
How Colorado’s Construction Industry Built Its Own Workforce System
The first in a series of briefs about Opportunity Now Colorado, a $90M grant program that invested in employer-led workforce partnerships across the state. This piece profiles the model that…
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