New York, New York, February 26, 2025: Corporation for a Skilled Workforce (CSW) and the New York City Employment and Training Coalition (NYCETC), with support from The Pinkerton Foundation, The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation, Ira W. DeCamp Foundation, and Deutsche Bank, are pleased to announce the 2025 Workforce Benchmarking Network New York City (WBN NYC) cohort.
Sixteen NYCETC member organizations have been selected to participate in the 2025 WBN NYC cohort. Organizations selected for this cohort represent a diverse range of nonprofit organizations, from settlement houses to national organizations with a NYC footprint. 2025 WBN NYC Cohort members include: All Star Code, Brooklyn Navy Yard, Commonpoint, Drive Change, East Side Settlement House, Genspace, Grace Institute, Greenwich House, Hope Program, Jericho Project, Manhattan EOC, Osborne Association, Phipps Neighborhoods, Red Hook Initiative, Solar One, and Upwardly Global.
2025 WBN NYC members began meeting in January, with workshops, coaching calls and peer mentoring activities that will run through October 2025. All cohort activities will work to build staff data acumen, strengthen organizational data culture, and improve and achieve more equitable participant outcomes.
“As the nation’s largest city-based workforce development association, NYCETC is committed to advancing initiatives that strengthen the connection between workforce providers and employers,” said Gregory J. Morris, CEO of the New York City Employment and Training Coalition (NYCETC). “The Workforce Benchmarking Network is a critical tool in this effort—equipping ETC member organizations with the data, insights, and peer learning necessary to refine their approaches, improve outcomes, and align training with employer needs. We must relentlessly pursue strategies that maximize impact, demonstrate value, and build the scaffolding required to put more New Yorkers on pathways to stability and prosperity.”
Alex Breen, the project’s lead noted, “As a WBN cohort alum myself, I can think of few professional experiences that did more to boost my self-confidence, expand my professional network, and to expose me to promising practices for using data than the WBN. The WBN provides a safe space to analyze issues objectively, share ideas in an open-source environment, and strategize about deepening the impact of all of our work.”
To learn more about WBN cohorts and opportunities to join or develop future cohorts please contact Alex Breen at abreen@skilledwork.org.
About Corporation for a Skilled Workforce (CSW): Corporation for a Skilled Workforce (CSW) is a national workforce policy non-profit that partners with government, business, education, and community leaders to cultivate good jobs and the skilled workers to fill them. Since 1991, CSW has catalyzed change in educational and labor market systems, focusing on scalable improvements in worker skills, job quality, and access to opportunity. CSW provides services across five strategy areas: Competencies & Credentials; Improving Practices & Outcomes; Federal, State, & Local Systems Change; Research & Evaluation; and Trauma & Resilience at Work. CSW advances policies and practices which increase economic mobility, particularly for people of color and others historically excluded from success.
About the New York City Employment and Training Coalition (NYCETC): The NYC Employment & Training Coalition (NYCETC) works to ensure that every New Yorker — especially those who have been historically marginalized and disenfranchised and cut off from workforce opportunities — has access to the skills, training, and education needed to thrive in the local economy, and that every business is able to maintain a highly skilled workforce. Our members create jobs and connect underserved New Yorkers — primarily New Yorkers of color, New Yorkers with low- or moderate-incomes, New Yorkers with multiple barriers to employment, and New Yorkers who have been left out of the growing economy due to systemic and historic marginalization — to opportunities so they can support their families and give back to their communities.
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