The National Fund for Workforce Solutions believes that high-quality workforce partnerships are among the most fundamentally sound strategies for helping low-wage workers succeed in today’s competitive economy while at the same time improving the competitiveness of a group of employers from a particular industry sector. Successful partnerships combine an entrepreneurial approach to convening and organizing key stakeholders, disciplined organizational development, and persistent attention to the needs of their two main customers: employers and workers.
This tool is designed to assist both regional funding collaboratives and the workforce partnerships they support. When a collaborative understands what constitutes a productive and well-functioning workforce partnership, it can communicate clearly to the partnerships what it expects of them. When a workforce partnership understands the collaborative’s expectations, it has a better idea how to organize and support all of the necessary components of its work.
