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Issue: 2007-09
Action Steps for Businesses: A Guide to Developing Partnerships with Faith-Based and Community Organization Partnerships
DescriptionIn recent years, there has been growing recognition of the vital role that FBCOs can play in providing employment and training services to job seekers while helping businesses meet their objectives. Many forward thinking companies are recognizing that community partnerships can also contribute to profitability in that it helps them meet and exceed placement and retention goals. The Action Steps …
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Issue: 2007-08
Literature Review: Business/Faith-Based and Community Organization Partnerships
DescriptionIn recent years, there has been growing recognition of the vital role that FBCOs can play in providing employment and training services to job seekers while helping businesses meet their objectives. Many forward thinking companies are recognizing that community partnerships can also contribute to profitability in that it helps them meet and exceed placement and retention goals. The Literature …
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Issue: 2007-07
Ready4Work Peer Review of Data Collection
DescriptionThe Ready4Work program, launched in 2003, is a national demonstration project managed by Public/Private Ventures (P/PV) that aims to reduce recidivism, and redress the personal and societal costs that recidivism poses. Ready4Work provides program services that are believed to facilitate successful reentry, including: 1) job training and placement services; 2) case management; and 3) mentoring …
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Issue: 2007-06
Growing America Through Entrepreneurship: Interim Report
DescriptionWhile many Americans dream about starting their own businesses and have the necessary skills and motivation to do so, lack of business expertise and access to credit often prevent them from realizing their dreams. Recognizing this untapped potential, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL), Employment and Training Administration, teamed with the Small Business Administration (SBA) to create a …
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Issue: 2007-05
The Quantum Opportunity Program Demonstration: Final Impacts
DescriptionFrom July 1995 through September 2001, the U.S. Department of Labor’s Employment and Training Administration and the Ford Foundation operated the Quantum Opportunity Program (QOP) Demonstration. The demonstration was designed to help at-risk high-school-age youth obtain the education and training needed for success in the labor market. The primary objectives of the demonstration were to increase …
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Issue: 2007-04
Five-Year Research, Demonstration and Evaluation Strategic Plan for 2007-2012
DescriptionSection 171 of the Workforce Investment Act (WIA) of 1998 requires the Secretary of Labor to submit, every two years, a plan that describes demonstration and pilot, multiservice, research and multistate projects that focus on priorities for the Department of Labor concerning employment and training for the five-year period following the plan.   The plan provides a strategic vision for research …
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Issue: 2007-03
Adult Learners in Higher Education: Barriers to Success and Strategies to Improve Results
DescriptionThe report synthesizes the research literature on the challenges facing adult learners in higher education today and on emerging strategies for increasing the number of adults over 24 who earn college credentials and degrees. The synthesis is meant to provide perspectives on key issues facing adult learners and the institutions that serve them. Powerful economic, demographic, and market trends …
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Issue: 2007-02
Evaluation of the Military Base National Emergency Grants
DescriptionThe U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) awards National Emergency Grants (NEGs) to states or local areas in need of supplemental resources to provide workforce development services. NEGs are provided in response to economic shocks such as mass layoffs, natural disasters or base realignment and closures. NEGs temporarily increase the capacity of state or local areas to provide workforce development …
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Issue: 2007-01
Managing Customers’ Training Choices: Findings from the Individual Training Account Experiment - Final Report
DescriptionA central goal of the Workforce Investment Act of 1998 (WIA) is to empower customers to improve their employment opportunities by giving them meaningful choices about the types of services they receive. The requirement that individual training accounts (ITAs) be used to fund training is one of the ways that WIA addresses the Act’s goal. A major challenge faced by workforce investment boards in …
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Issue: 2006-13
An Assessment of the Low-Wage Worker Retention and Advancement Demonstration Project
DescriptionThe U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration awarded grants to the Oregon Employment Department in 2002 and the California Employment Development Department in 2003 for the Low-Wage Worker Retention and Advancement Demonstration Project.   The evaluation of the grants investigated labor market approaches and service interventions that were developed to help low-wage …
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