CSW and United Way Worldwide provide an overview of sector-based workforce partnerships and their value to a community, and makes suggestions for growing and sustaining these partnerships. For this report, CSW conducted a series of interviews with staff, funders, and community partners from 10 United Ways, all of which participated in the seven month readiness process and are involved in regional funder collaboratives with the National Fund for Workforce Solutions.

Co-authored by CSW’s Senior Fellow Keith Bird and Evelyn Ganzglass, Director of Workforce Development at the Center for Law and Social Policy, this report  highlights the disconnect between the nation’s postsecondary and education and training systems, underscoring the need to create a system that uses competency rather than seat-time as the standard measure of learning.

Skills2Compete Maryland (S2C Maryland) is a campaign aimed at increasing postsecondary success to strengthen the skills of Maryland’s workforce. The strategy requires aligning diverse public programs so that individuals are given the opportunity to complete a job-relevant vocational credential, an industry certification or academic preparation for a two- or four-year degree that will lead to a middle skill or better job…

A new report, researched and written by CSW and released by the Detroit Regional Workforce Fund, highlights the number of workers in Detroit who are challenged by limited basic skills. The report, Addressing Detroit’s Basic Skills Crisis, identifies several key issues around the need to expand access to services to improve basic skills.

This report, sponsored by the Lumina Foundation for Education, highlights the workplace as an asset for increasing access to post-secondary education and training, especially for working Latino adults. Specifically, the research discusses five key principles for shaping policy…

This report, written by Larry Good, cofounder and chairman of CSW, in partnership with the National Skills Coalition, explores the reasoning, process, outcomes and lessons learned by Michigan— a state that has significantly changed statewide workforce policy through their groundbreaking No Worker Left Behind (NWLB) initiative…

CSW assessed the current state of manufacturing in the U.S. The report highilghts success factors of today’s manufacturing firms, and offers opportunities for federal policy action and was released by the Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP) at the national Institute of Standards and Technology.

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.