This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Shailaja Neelakantan explains how Louisville, Kentucky is working to attract tech companies by partnering with educational institutions to train the workforce. • How can other cities improve their…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: · David Kugler provides a brief recap of the 2019 AVPN Annual Conference and how we can go about solving the human capital crisis in the social sector. …
Giving Compass’ Take: • PACE evaluated the Year Up program, offering technical training and internships to low-income, urban youth, and found the program achieved high levels on multiple measures. • How…
Giving Compass’ Take: • MDRC released a report on how New York municipalities, community, and workforce development organizations can now access state UI wage data and what opportunities and challenges…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Andy Van Kleunen, writing The Hechinger Report, discusses why higher education institutions should understand and value the needs of working families enrolled in college courses. • Community…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • The past five decades – spanning from the time when the Silent Generation (today, in their 70s and 80s) was entering adulthood to the adulthood of today’s…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: · Writing for The Brookings Institution, Andre M. Perry highlights the disparities between black and white unemployment and explains that black unemployment has reached an even higher level than see…
Giving Compass’ Take: • OPRE and MDRC evaluated the Young Adult Internship Program in New York and found that early outcomes indicated higher labor force participation and wages for participants over the…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • At the event Quality Jobs for All: What Would It Take?, a series of discussions led many panelists to discover multiple vehicles for providing high-quality jobs…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Liberal arts schools are creating skills-mapping projects to help students understand how to prepare for the future workforce, and trends are pointing toward a “skills-based movement.”…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: · With the demands of the workforce changing, Rachelle Dene Poth discusses the best way educators can prepare to teach students the skills they need for their future.…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: · Writing for Pacific Standard, Tom Jacobs explains how overconfidence in the upper- and middle-class people is often perceived as competence and capability by employers, limiting the potential…