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JFF's national initiatives serve in-school students, out-of-school youth, and working adults who need multiple pathways to advance their learning and their careers. Our successes prove that dramatic change is possible when good ideas have room to grow - and when change leads to a stronger, more productive nation.
Improving Youth Transitions
- Accelerated Learning Policy Forum (conference)
a national policy forum hosted by the Western Interstate Commission on Higher Education and Jobs for the Future ... read more - Benchmark Communities Initiative
In 1994, JFF launched the Benchmark Communities Initiative a five-year, systemic education reform initiative ... read more - Connected Learning Communities Initiative
This multi-year initiative involved schools, employers, and other community allies to help young people ... read more - Fate of the American Dream
In September 2005, top corporate, education, and workforce policymakers came together to address the failure to prepare ... read more - From the Margins to the Mainstream
In partnership with New Ways to Work, Jobs for the Future designed and demonstrated strategies for strengthening local ... read more - Moving Forward: High Standards and High Graduation Rates
Three states will develop an enhanced capacity to collect leading indicators of dropping out and use those indicators to ... read more - Redesigning High Schools
Redesigning High Schools focuses on the issues that states need to address if they are to promote changes in high school ... read more - School-to-Work Intermediary Project
In partnership with New Ways to Work, Jobs for the Future designed and demonstrated strategies for strengthening local intermediaries that connect ... read more
Building Economic Opportunity for Adults
- Fate of the American Dream
In September 2005, top corporate, education, and workforce policymakers came together to address the failure to prepare ... read more - High Growth Job Training Initiative
This initiative responds to critical needs for a more highly skilled labor force caring for America’s aging population ... read more - Investing in Workforce Intermediaries
In 2004, the sponsoring foundations, working with Jobs for the Future, launched a pilot effort to seed a national support infrastructure for workforce ... read more - Jobs Initiative
The Jobs Initiative was an eight-year, $30 million effort to help 18- to 35-year-old, inner-city residents obtain ... read more - Low-Wage Workers in the United Kingdom
Several JFF projects have helped the United Kingdom develop strategies for advancing low-wage workers. In 1999 ... read more - School-to-Work Intermediary Project
In partnership with New Ways to Work, Jobs for the Future designed and demonstrated strategies for strengthening local intermediaries that connect ... read more - Workforce Innovation Networks - WINs
From 1997 through 2007, WINs worked with local employer organizations across the country that are on the cutting edge of ... read more
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