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Charles Stewart Mott Foundation, Cambridge, MA

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Finding Common Ground: Local Intermediaries and National Industry Associations

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JFF Helped over 1,000 people in 2007

Completed Jobs for the Future Projects

At the core of every JFF project is an idea that responds to America’s need for efficient, accessible educational and workforce pathways from high school through higher education and into family-sustaining careers. JFF projects seek to create an education and career pipeline that by 2020 doubles the number of: underrepresented young people who are college-ready and complete a postsecondary credential on time; off-track and out-of-school young adults who earn both a high school and postsecondary credential by age 26; and low-income working adults who advance into jobs that pay family-sustaining wages.

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
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 Innovations Networks - WINs
From 1997 through 2007, WINs worked with local employer organizations across the country that are on the cutting edge of ... read more

Improving Youth Transitions

Accelerated Learning Policy Forum
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