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Building Workforce Development
Funding Collaboratives
In California’s Regions
Building Regional Workforce Funding Collaboratives
Who We Are• National Economic Development and Law Center
– A national, nonprofit, research and consulting organization,
founded in 1969, and dedicated to building economic health and
opportunity in vulnerable communities
• National Network of Sector PartnersMission: to encourage the use and effectiveness of sector initiatives
as valuable tools for enhancing employment and economic
development opportunities for low-income individuals, industries,
and communities.
Support development of regional workforce funding collaboratives in
CaliforniaNNSP is a project of the National Economic Development and Law Center
Building Regional Workforce Funding Collaboratives
The Vision
• Good jobs and career paths for all
• Vital industries that need a growing
workforce
• Strong regional economies
NNSP is a project of the National Economic Development and Law Center
Building Regional Workforce Funding Collaboratives
An Effective Way to Achieve the Vision
• Regional Workforce Development
Funding Collaboratives
• Examples– Bay Area Workforce Funding Collaborative (BAWFC)
– SkillWorks (Boston)
– New York City Workforce Innovation Fund
NNSP is a project of the National Economic Development and Law Center
Building Regional Workforce Funding Collaboratives
CA Workforce Collaboratives:
A Shared Goal
Build a regional system which understands and
responds to the unmet skill needs of employers,
employees, and job seekers in targeted industry
sectors, so that low-income individuals and others
can gain skills and obtain family-sustaining jobs,
thereby increasing economic security, and so that
employers in those sectors can find skilled workers.
NNSP is a project of the National Economic Development and Law Center
Building Regional Workforce Funding Collaboratives
CA Workforce Collaboratives:
Shared Strategies
• Bring funding
together from
multiple sources:– Foundations
– Government
– Employers
– (Potentially training
trusts)
• Increase the amount of
funding
• Increase the flexibility
of funding
• Increase regional
planning and
collaboration.
NNSP is a project of the National Economic Development and Law Center
Building Regional Workforce Funding Collaboratives
CA Workforce Collaboratives:
Shared Strategies, continued
• Use funding to support:
• Sector initiatives
• Systems change
• Program quality improvement
NNSP is a project of the National Economic Development and Law Center
Building Regional Workforce Funding Collaboratives
Bay Area Challenges in 2004• A growing number of low-wage and dislocated
workers struggling economically
– Entry-level workers increasingly unable to make ends
meet
– Workers face an increasingly wide skill gap
• Key industry sectors in the Bay Area unable to
meet their needs for a skilled workforce
– Healthcare
– Life scienceNNSP is a project of the National Economic Development and Law Center
Building Regional Workforce Funding Collaboratives
Bay Area Challenges, continued• Workforce development system
– Lacking a strategic, flexible, systemic response that
matches regional economic development needs
– Facing cutbacks; lacking coordinated means to
maximize impact of limited resources
– Sector initiatives: producing great results, but unable
to obtain multi-year funding that matches range of
strategies necessary to address industry needs
NNSP is a project of the National Economic Development and Law Center
Building Regional Workforce Funding Collaboratives
Foundation and State Response
• Establish Bay Area Workforce Funding Collaborative
– Link funding from foundations, the state, and others:
$2 million state match (WIA 15% and 25%)
– Goals: invest in 10-county Bay Area region to:
• Increase economic security by increasing skills to work in vital
industries that provide family-sustaining jobs
• Understand employers’ workforce and skill needs, encourage a
demand-driven system, and facilitate appropriate workforce
development
• Stimulate greater regional planning and cooperation
NNSP is a project of the National Economic Development and Law Center
Economic
security for
low-income
and low-wage
workers (jobs,
advancement)
Entry-level
staffing needs
met of biotech
and health
industries
Theory of Change: BAWFC
2) Economic sector targeting:
Growth, Ease of entry, Mobility, Self-
sufficiency wages, Accurate labor
market information
3) Access to social services, career
counseling, job placement services
Skills increase in high
demand occupations
Increased job
placement, retention
and advancement in
high demand
occupations
Improved system alignment:
a continuum of outreach,
education, training, and
social supports are aligned
to meet industry sector and
target population needs
5) Services streamlined: Service
providers, educators, job developers
align services, design industry-
responsive curricula, tailor pre-
employment services, focus job
development, address policy
barriers.
4) Career skills building
1) Funding systems reform to
increase the scale and efficiencies in
public and private funding streams.
6) Continuous learning to inform
course correction, changes and
needs for systems change.
Building Regional Workforce Funding Collaboratives
NNSP is a project of the National Economic Development and Law Center
Building Regional Workforce Funding Collaboratives
BAWFC Structure• Governance
– Steering Committee, composed of five funders, establishes
and oversees implementation of goals and strategies.
– Funding Panel, made up of representatives from
contributing funders, selects projects for 2-year grants.
– Panel of Advisors informs BAWFC’s work.
• Management
– Originally staffed by SF Foundation and NNSP. In 2006
BAWFC hired staff; NNSP provides technical assistance.
NNSP is a project of the National Economic Development and Law Center
Building Regional Workforce Funding Collaboratives
BAWFC: Cycle 1 Funding• Investment: $2.1 million from 13 foundations
• Many had discontinued funding for workforce development due
to concerns regarding impact and lack of metrics linking training
to employment and family economic self-sufficiency
• Investment: $2 million matching WIA funds • $1 million of 15%; $1 million of 25%
• Match from sector initiatives awarded 2-year grants• $1.2 million from employers, including paid release time for
training
• $ 1.1 million from community colleges and other public entitiesNNSP is a project of the National Economic Development and Law Center
Building Regional Workforce Funding Collaboratives
How Sector Initiatives BAWFC Funded
Meet Industry and Worker Needs• They focus on a specific industry in a regional labor
market, over a sustained period of time
• They are led by an organization with credibility in the
industry; services are provided by multiple partners
• They create new pathways for low wage workers into the
industry, and up to good jobs and careers
• They achieve systemic changes that are “win-win” for
employers, workers, and the community.NNSP is a project of the National Economic Development and Law Center
Building Regional Workforce Funding Collaboratives
BAWFC: Cycle 1 Results as of 7/06• Grants Awarded between 10/04 and 5/05
– 935 clients received training and/or other support services.
– 795 clients completed a training program.
– 173 individuals employed in the occupation they were trained for.
– 143 individuals got an internship or continuing education.
BAWFC
Program
NOVA
WIB
San Mateo
WIB
SF PIC and
SF Works
SF PIC
and
Shirley
Ware
Center
JVS Santa
Cruz
WIB
Shirley
Ware
Center/
City
College SF
Unity
Council
Rubicon
Programs
Average
Wage
Pre-Training
N/A $8/hr $8/hr $14-15/
hr
$12/
hr
$10/
hr
$15/hr $8.50/
hr
$8/hr
Average
Wage
Post-Training
N/A $16.89/
hr
$11.84/
hr
$17-19/
hr
$24/
hr
N/A $21/hr $13.40/
hr
$13.19/
hr
NNSP is a project of the National Economic Development and Law Center
Building Regional Workforce Funding Collaboratives
Cycle 1 Results, Continued
• Workforce partnerships and programs developed
• Learning network conducted; evaluation started
• Monica Poindexter, Genentech:
“It’s all about impact. This program delivers for both
the employer and individual. We believe this
partnership between the state, philanthropy, and
employers is a model of how best to align public and
private investments in workforce development.”
NNSP is a project of the National Economic Development and Law Center
Building Regional Workforce Funding Collaboratives
How CA Workforce Collaboratives
Bring About Systems Change• Change industry practices
• The Shirley Ware Education Center and City College of San
Francisco leveraged BAWFC funding, getting significant
employer contributions of paid release time for training
participants.
• Change workforce system policies/practices• NOVA used BAWFC funding to develop the Silicon Valley
Center for Health Professions which will significantly
expand nursing and allied health training. NNSP is a project of the National Economic Development and Law Center
Building Regional Workforce Funding Collaboratives
How CA Workforce Collaboratives
Improve Program Quality
• Fund best practice development and
capacity building efforts
• Fund documentation, data collection,
and evaluation
NNSP is a project of the National Economic Development and Law Center
Building Regional Workforce Funding Collaboratives
Reasons CA Promoted Expansion
• To maximize funding by attracting other
investments, in context of declining public funds.
• To target funds to key industry sectors and worker
populations (e.g., public training and education $).
• To move decision-making on state WIA funds
from the state level to the regional level.
• To support funding collaborative development in
multiple regions, rather than just the Bay Area.NNSP is a project of the National Economic Development and Law Center
Building Regional Workforce Funding Collaboratives
Reasons CA Promoted Expansion
“I believe that California must increase the extent to which our state resources leverage other investments in workforce development, and that these investment decisions need to be made at the regional level. To this end, the state has earmarked up to $3.9 million to invest with other matching resources in this innovative approach.”
Dennis Petrie, Deputy Director for Workforce Services,
California Employment Development Department
NNSP is a project of the National Economic Development and Law Center
Building Regional Workforce Funding Collaboratives
BAWFC: Cycle 2 Funding• Investment: $2.1 million from 13 foundations
• Four new Cycle 2 foundations replaced four Cycle 1 foundations
• Investment: $1.2 million matching WIA 15% funds
• RFP: Workforce Partnerships and Innovation grants
• New RFP: Policy and System Change grants
(foundation funded)
• Match from sector initiatives not yet known because
grant awards not yet made
NNSP is a project of the National Economic Development and Law Center
Building Regional Workforce Funding Collaboratives
Developing a Regional Workforce
Funding Collaborative
• Step 1: Identify Lead Investor(s)
– Sponsor exploration of developing a regional workforce
funding collaborative
– If interest, establish a Launch Committee
• Step 2: Marketing/Feasibility Assessment
– Launch Committee members:
• Meet with potential investors to present idea
• Hold potential investor briefingNNSP is a project of the National Economic Development and Law Center
Building Regional Workforce Funding Collaboratives
Developing a Regional Workforce
Funding Collaborative, continued
• Step 3: Start-Up
– Launch Committee:
• Seeks analyses of key regional industries to determine priorities
for investment that fit funders’ interests
• Develops a Theory of Change with metrics that focuses
investment strategically, produces significant impact, and links
training to jobs and increases in family economic security
• Designs and promotes the collaborative investment pool and the
funding process, and facilitates participation by investors
NNSP is a project of the National Economic Development and Law Center
Building Regional Workforce Funding Collaboratives
Developing a Regional Workforce
Funding Collaborative, continued
• Step 4: Governance Committee
– Launch Committee establishes governance committee
• Typically, representatives of each investor
• May include others
• Sets policy/process regarding grant-making decision process
• Designed so that the Collaborative operates with the speed and
flexibility needed by target industries, and the needed oversight,
accountability mechanism/metrics, and systems support
NNSP is a project of the National Economic Development and Law Center
Building Regional Workforce Funding Collaboratives
Developing a Regional Workforce
Funding Collaborative, continued
• Step 5: Investors Committee
– Governance Committee establishes Investors Committee
• Typically, all investors participate in reviewing proposals for
funding and decisions on funding awards
NNSP is a project of the National Economic Development and Law Center
Building Regional Workforce Funding Collaboratives
Developing a Regional Workforce
Funding Collaborative, continued
• Adminstration
– The Launch Committee typically raises funds for more
experienced consultants to staff the Workforce
Collaborative, and to support fund development and
program management.
– The governance committee typically forms an Operations
Team that works with the consultant(s).
NNSP is a project of the National Economic Development and Law Center