Most Recent Publications

Employer Engagement in the National Fund for Workforce Solutions (January 2011)
Each regional collaborative in the National Fund for Workforce Solutions invests in local workforce partnerships that organize key stakeholders, mobilize servic... read more
Creating Career Pathways for Frontline Health Care Workers (January 2011)
An effective, efficient workforce is essential to addressing rising costs in the health care industry. Nevertheless, effective investments in career advancement... read more
The Resource Within: Today's Employees Become Hospitals' Workforce of the Future (January 2011)
To deliver care to an ever-increasing number of patients, and to make that care more patient-centered, hospitals must focus on the careers and skills developmen... read more
Scaling Up Preliminary Data Analysis (December 2010)
This report is the first analysis of demographic and outcome data reported on career pathway programs participating in the scale up of the national Breaking Thr... read more
Unions As Partners: Expanding the Role of Organized Labor in Workforce Development (November 2010)
The need has never been greater to ensure that people are productively employed—not simply in any job, but a job with a future. This is the goal of the Na... read more
SSTAR Excels: Investing in a Work-Based Learning Approach to Professional Development (November 2010)
Stanley Street Treatment and Resources (SSTAR), a nonprofit behavioral and mental health agency with facilities in Rhode Island and Massachusetts, has faced cha... read more
Green Jobs Training Prepares Students for Career Success (October 2010)
Kevin Coyle and JFF's Maria Flynn authored this op-ed about opportunities for low-skilled workers in the emerging green economy. It appears in the October/Nove... read more
"Growing Their Own" Skilled Workforces: Community Health Centers Benefit from Work-Based Learning for Frontline Employees (November 2010)
Health care reform calls for unprecedented investments in the nation’s community health centers, paving the way to serve millions more Americans who are c... read more
Time to Completion: States and Systems Must Tackle the Time Dilemma (November 2010)
Here's the all-too-familiar challenge: The nation needs higher postsecondary completion rates to ensure a competitive labor market and to restore our ranki... read more
Workforce Partnership Guidance Tool (November 2010)
The National Fund for Workforce Solutions believes that high-quality workforce partnerships are among the most fundamentally sound strategies for helping l... read more