workforce Publications

Advancing Health and Health Care Careers - Rung by Rung: Applying a Work-based Learning Model to Develop Missing Rungs on a Nursing Career Ladder (August 2007)
Workforce shortages in health and health care are reaching crisis levels, prompting many employers to adopt creative approaches for recruiting and retaining wor... read more
Under One Roof: New Governance Structures for Local Economic and Workforce Development (Spring 2007)
Across the country, there is a growing interest in aligning economic development and workforce organizations, which is motivated by numerous factors. These fact... read more
Strategies for Financing Workforce Intermediaries: Working Papers (July 2007)
JFF, along with several partners, has researched the question of how workforce intermediaries might use existing or new funding sources to finance their core fu... read more
Good Things from Small Packages: Finding Common Ground for Workforce Development in Rhode Island (June 2007)
The Rhode Island economy faces twin challenges: a worker gap among employers and a skills gap among workers. In combination, these are fueling a squeeze on work... read more
Funder Collaboratives: A Philanthropic Strategy for Supporting Workforce Intermediaries (March 2007)
Across the country, funder collaboratives pool funds for fostering the formation and expansion of workforce intermediaries and to advocate for policies that wil... read more
Working Toward Reinvention: SkillWorks at Three (March 2007)
Launched in 2003, SkillWorks is the largest effort in Boston’s history to substantially improve workforce development services for both low-skil... read more
Industry Trend Studies (January 2007)
These trend studies, prepared by the National Center on Education and the Economy (NCEE) describe market dynamics as they relate to seven specific industries, ... read more
Opportunity for All: Addressing the Education and Workforce Challenges of Black and Latino Males (January 2007)
In January 2007, over 200 Boston-area leaders from schools, businesses, foundations, government, and community-based organizations gathered to explore solutions... read more
A Survey of Selected Work Readiness Certificates (January 2007)
The United Way of Rhode Island asked JFF to prepare a scan of work readiness certificates that have emerged throughout the United States in recent years. Like m... read more
The Impact of Globalization on American Jobs (December 2006)
To succeed in today’s world, U.S. firms need to focus on what they can do better than anybody else, while constantly identifying new opportunities to crea... read more