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Workforce Development

The Insight Center's Workforce Development program facilitates the creation of good jobs for all workers, strong industries that support vital communities, and an inclusive economy that helps low-income individuals become economically secure. We accomplish this by:

Operating the National Network of Sector Partners, a membership-based network that provides resources to the sector field, utilizes workforce-development approaches that are tailored to an industry and region, and supports the improvement and expansion of industry sector-focused workforce development
Providing research-based assistance to design effective workforce programs
Helping reshape industry practices, financing, public policies, and public institutions through which workers and industries interact

The program approaches workforce challenges in the broader framework of community economic development needs. We work with businesses, workers, community-based organizations, and other stakeholders to approach problems systematically and achieve systems change. Our expertise with sector methodology, promising practices in workforce development, public and private financing, policy advocacy, and program design provides clients with a comprehensive tool kit for workforce development. The program staff has extensive work experience in industry, labor, government, and community organizations and has expertise working with diverse stakeholders, including communities of color.

Key Projects and Initiatives

Accelerating State Adoption of Sector Strategies Project. This project helps states reshape policy and financing to support sector initiatives.
Flint Healthcare Employment Opportunities. This project helped develop a health sector initiative that improved the economic status of unemployed residents in an enterprise community.
Oregon Agricultural Workers Project. This project improved job quality in a low-wage industry by assessing training needs and identifying career advancement opportunities.
Regional Workforce Funding Collaboratives. This initiative helps California regions increase the sources and amounts of funding for sector initiatives and systems-change efforts, and strategically target grant-making.
Cooperative Development in Providence’s Immigrant Communities. This project supported the formation of a worker cooperative for recent immigrants through legal guidance, planning, and resource- development assistance.
Mid-South Sector Project. This project supports development of rural and urban sector initiatives and related policy changes in Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Tennessee.

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Customized Services

Maximize existing workforce funding streams and develop new funding through public-private funding collaboratives and statewide policy initiatives
Develop job quality strategies that improve wages and benefits for low-wage workers
Develop innovative business models such as employee-owned businesses and alternative staffing agencies
Support organizational capacity-building and sustainability planning
Provide training, technical assistance, and curriculum development for workforce investment boards, community colleges, community-based organizations, and others on developing sector initiatives
Conduct qualitative and quantitative research on labor-market dynamics, cost-benefit analyses, and more
Develop policy, advocacy, and communications strategies
Facilitate multi-stakeholder planning
Provide strategic planning for foundations

To contact us about working in your community, e-mail us at workforce@insightcced.org.

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