PUBLICATIONS ARCHIVE

Community Health Worker Career Advancement Initiative
With major new funding from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, SkillWorks solicited planning applications for a workforce intermediary to help Community Health Workers progress to family sustaining incomes. A $50,000 planning grant was given to Action for Boston Community Development (ABCD) to create career ladders and advancement opportunities for Boston's community health workers, who perform a wide range of services that increase access to health care for underserved communities.

Request for Proposals (File Size: 312K)

Community Health Worker Advancement: A Research Summary (File Size: 176K)

Letter of Intent Submissions (120K)

Request for Proposals (312K)

Bidders Conference Presentation (1.2M)

Bidders Conference Q&A (160K)

Bidders' Competencies Matrix (Excel; 40K)

Bidders Conference Attendee List (136K)

Press Release: April 13, 2006: SkillWorks Announces Grant to ABCD for Community Health Worker Initiative
 

 

Planning and Implementation for the Boston Workforce Development Initiative:
The Project's Requests for Proposals
 The Boston Workforce Development Initiative is systems reform strategy by local and national foundations, the City of Boston, and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to close the skill gap that has left too many job seekers and workers in poverty while employers are unable to meet their needs for a skilled workforce. The initiative’s Requests for Proposals solicited applications for organizations to participate in the initiative’s various components. These documents describe the initiative and its comprehensive, citywide approach to economic and workforce development.

Boston Workforce Development Initiative Request for Proposals: Workforce Partnerships
(File Size: 206 K)
Boston Workforce Development Initiative Request for Proposals: Public Policy Advocacy
(File Size: 131 K)

  

Boston Workforce Development Initiative Systems Reform
The Boston Workforce Development Initiative is an innovative response by local and national foundations, the City of Boston, and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to an increasingly wide skill gap that has left too many job seekers and workers in poverty while employers are unable to meet their needs for a skilled workforce. JFF prepared this PowerPoint to introduce the initiative’s systems-reform approach.

Boston Workforce Development Systems Reform: A PowerPoint Presentation (File Size: 148 K)