Potential changes to San Diego’s One Stop system to better serve the business and jobseeker needs of today as well as those anticipated for the next several years are explored in this report, produced by CSW for the San Diego Workforce Partnership.

This paper identifies training opportunities in Michigan that prepare workers for green-collar jobs in the construction and manufacturing sectors, and that represent key elements of an integrated green workforce development system. It was written by CSW’s Taryn MacFarlane and Tammy Coxen, and Kate Gordon from Appollo Alliance. Matt Mayrl, Elena Foshay, and Jessica Halpern-Finnerty also contributed to the report.

This report first looks at the current conditions and economic climate within the protective services industry in the Region 1 Workforce Development Area of West Virginia and offers key recommendations for improving industry conditions within the region.

This report first looks at the current conditions and economic climate within the construction industry in the Region 1 Workforce Development Area of West Virginia and offers key recommendations for improving industry conditions within the region.

This report first looks at the current conditions and economic climate within the manufacturing industry in the Region 1 Workforce Development Area of West Virginia and offers key recommendations for improving industry conditions within the region.

In conjunction with Skills2Compete, the Workforce Alliance idenitfies job opportunities in Michigan for workers with more than a high school diploma but less than a four year degree, and training opportunities than can put them within reach. CSW, together with partners Michigan Community College Association and Michigan League for Human Services, contirbuted to the report.

For rural regions, economic competitiveness depends on regional ability to build industry partnerships that leverage expertise and resources across employers and public systems (regardless of distance). This paper offers examples and recommendations for building the skilled workforce and competitive industries that rural regions need to thrive.

The Mid-America Regional Council (MARC), is an association of city and county governments and metropolitan planning organizations serving a nine-county, bi-state, greater Kansas City region. At a December, 2008 meeting of the Greater Kansas City Chamber of Commerce Energy Policy Committee, representatives of the Chamber, MARC, Metropolitan Energy Center (MEC), Metropolitan Community College (MCC), OneKC WIRED, and Johnson County Community College (JCCC) agreed to work together as a Steering Committee to coordinate efforts to deploy new programs aimed at developing a regional workforce equipped to meet the needs of private and public sector employers involved in sustainable industries and decision-making…

This report describes how strategic partnerships between industry and community colleges can boost our economy over the long-term by training tomorrow’s workers for future jobs. The report highlights six innovative partnerships between community colleges and manufacturers. Each program focuses on creating pathways for Hispanic immigrants with little or no postsecondary experience to enroll in college level coursework. The programs achieve this by getting buy-in from employers and having strong commitment from a local community college that understands and addresses the unique challenges of immigrant workers.

This report contains recommendations for shrinking the number of Michigan adults who lack basic skills to obtain family-sustaining jobs and contribute to the economy. The report, which CSW and Michigan’s Adult Learning Work Group developed for the Council for Labor and Economic Growth, lays out an unprecedented vision for preparing these workers to thrive by creating an integrated, adult learning system that is flexible enough to meet learners where they are and help them to advance from there.

Very small businesses — those with less than 5 employees — account for 86% of businesses in Michigan and 18% of jobs. With the economy growing ever-tighter, more people are looking to microenterprise to augment or even replace outcomes. This report examines crucial steps to grow the capacity of support organizations to help these small firms succeed. The 2008 report was produced with the generous support of the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation and CSW’s partner, the Aspen Institute’s FIELD program.

This report, developed for the Washington State Workforce Training and Education Coordinating Board, looks at ways to evaluate the impact of “Skill Panels” (regional, industry-focused workforce development partnerships) on workers, employers, and public systems. This is one of the latest examples of an evolving movement to capture the impact of sector partnerships, model workforce development approaches that connect workers to good jobs.