Meet the innovators pioneering new models of work-based learning, durable skill assessment, and employer engagement JFF is partnering with innovators to explore how early-career workers can build skills, demonstrate readiness, and access quality jobs in an AI-transformed labor market. Overview and…
A tool to help companies identify their next skills-based wins This practical decision-making tool guides organizations to their next high-impact skills-based practice. It showcases proven actions across six areas of talent management, giving HR leaders…
Inquiry-to-Action is a flexible, community-led model helping regions uncover root causes of workforce challenges and co-design inclusive, data-driven solutions—building trust, momentum, and lasting economic impact. What Participants are Saying The Need Local labor markets and…
In the Humanities to Career initiative, JFF is evaluating efforts at three community colleges to identify effective ways to help humanities and liberal arts students develop in-demand professional skills. Acknowledgments Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel…
Profiles of four community college dual enrollment programs that JFF considers early prototypes of the hybrid high-school-college institutions that are key elements of our “Big Blur” model of postsecondary learning. The Evolving Promise of Dual…
A Call to Reboot Dual Enrollment Dual enrollment and early college increase the number of high schoolers who succeed in college. Over the past two decades, they’ve grown from boutique opportunities to widespread college success…
How Employers Can Engage, Develop, and Advance Gen Z—Today’s Early Talent As Gen Z—today’s early talent—enters the workforce in growing numbers, a central question for employers is how they can better understand and respond to…
Jobs for the Future’s (JFF) vision for the Big Blur calls for entirely new educational institutions and systems to better prepare 16-to- 20-year-olds for college and careers. This paper examines a new type of financing…
Erasing the Boundaries Between High School, College, and Careers It’s important to remember that as the number of pathways to a postsecondary credential and good career increase, we mustn’t view 13th-year programs as a lesser…