New York State Small Business Task Force Report
This Report represents efforts of Task Force members who have worked to formulate recommendations that would have a substantive impact on small business growth and development in New York, including: increasing access to capital, implementing regulatory and administrative reforms, and improving work force training and technical assistance programs. The recommendations that impact workforce development include the following: Integrate Economic Development and Workforce Training Activities through a Sector-Based Strategy. This effort should build on the work of the National Governor’s Association Sector Academy, which is focusing on three industry clusters: green, advanced manufacturing and health care. Create and Expand a Layoff Aversion Program. The State Department of Labor (DOL) is in the process of creating Emergency Response Teams that will assist small businesses in distress with consulting on business turnaround, layoff aversion and Employee Stock Ownership Programs. The Task Force supports the initiation of this pilot program encourages statewide expansion as soon as possible. Increase On-the-Job Training Opportunities. The Task Force urges DOL to use its federal Workforce Investment Act funding to leverage greater local participation by providing matching support on a competitive basis for up to 50 On-the-Job Training (OJT) projects of between five and 10 workers each. The Task Force also supports DOL’s plan to enhance OJT by providing an additional incentive to businesses that hire the long-term unemployed. Improve Opportunities for Youth in Small Business. A portion of the Workforce Investment Act resources should be set aside to leverage local funding of creative youth/small business projects. A fund of $750,000, matched at the local level by a 2-1 ratio, could support 10 competitively selected projects linking youth to small business opportunities.
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02/01/10 10:38AM
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New York City Green Collar Jobs Roadmap
The Center for American progress has released a new resource entitled “New York City Green Collar Jobs Roadmap.” The Roadmap is a product of the Green Collar Jobs Roundtable, which was convened by Urban Agenda. The Roundtable was a participatory effort of over 170 job-training organizations, community-based programs, businesses, and labor unions that compiled data on green jobs and workforce development best practices while developing more than 30 recommendations for achieving the shared vision of a more sustainable, prosperous, and just New York City. The Roadmap includes recommendations related to green economic development, talent engagement and development, job creation, employer engagement, and partner collaboration.
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10/30/09 01:14PM
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New Strategies for Serving Unemployed “Professional” Workers
Across the country, state and local workforce systems are grappling not only with dramatically increased customer demand for services, but also with changing customer bases. In many areas, increasing numbers of laid-off “professional” or “white collar” workers are seeking reemployment assistance in One-Stop Career Centers. This article highlights several state and local efforts to implement targeted strategies to meet the particular needs of this job-seeking group.
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10/05/09 12:56PM
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NYSDOL Awards Grants to Connect Emerging and Transitional Workers to In-Demand Careers
The New York State Department of Labor has announced the award of more than $2 million in stimulus funding for a new Emerging and Transitional Worker Grant program. The grants, awarded in the Finger Lakes and Central New York regions, are part of a larger, $15 million statewide stimulus investment to give those with little or no connection to the workforce the skills necessary to successfully obtain employment and advance in their careers.
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09/21/09 12:09PM
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Report: Job Opportunities for the Green Economy: A State-by-State Picture of Occupations that Gain from Green Investments
Job Opportunities for the Green Economy: A State-by-State Picture of Occupations that Gain from Green Investments, a report released in June from the Political Economy Research Institute at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, examines 12 states and the people employed in occupations affected by six green economic strategies: building retrofitting, mass transit, energy-efficient automobiles, wind power, solar power and cellulosic biofuels. Sponsored by NRDC as part of the Green Jobs for America campaign, the report shows millions of U.S. workers will benefit from a movement to defeat global warming and transform the United States into a green economy.
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02/02/09 01:48PM
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Coping with Layoffs: Current State Strategies for Better Rapid Response
This brief published by the John J. Heldrich Center Workforce Development in November 2008, examines state rapid response practices that are designed to coordinate the delivery of a wide array of services to displaced workers. It summarizes the efforts of several states, identified by national experts as having promising practices, in the service delivery, organization, and evaluation of rapid response activities. It highlights states that combine post-layoff activities with proactive layoff aversion approaches and worker transition assistance. Overview provides state workforce professionals additional tactics and strategies to consider for their state workforce systems.
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01/29/09 09:21AM
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WIRED Wall Street West Promotes Regional WIB Collaboration
Wall Street West has accomplished a significant achievement by enhancing collaboration among the five Workforce Investment Boards in the region. By building on prior relationships and identifying a champion to create change within, WSW united the WIBs around the objectives of WIRED and is making substantial progress on its workforce development goals.
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08/07/08 02:18PM
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Finger Lakes WIRED
Led by the E. Philip Saunders College of Business at Rochester Institute of Technology, the Finger Lakes WIRED Strategic Growth through Innovation Program prepares regional business leaders to grow their high potential firms. Executive education specialists and RIT business professors bring their expertise together in this training program, in which senior management officials from regional firms develop their own strategic growth plans.
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07/31/08 02:34PM
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Job Opportunities for the Green Economy: A State-by-State Picture of Occupations that Gain from Green Investments
The University of Massachusetts’ Political Economy Research Institute has released a new volume examining the “Green Economy.” Co-Director Robert Pollin and Assistant Research Professor Jeannette Wicks-Lim provide a snapshot of the kinds of jobs that are needed to build a green economy in the United States in “Job Opportunities for the Green Economy: A State-by-State Picture of Occupations that Gain from Green Investments.” According to the research, the six green strategies are: building retrofitting, mass transit, energy-efficient automobiles, wind power, solar power, and cellulosic biomass fuels. Pollin and Wicks-Lim show that the vast majority of jobs associated with these strategies are in the same areas of employment in which people already work in today, in every region and state of the country. The authors present data on employment conditions in twelve states: Florida, Indiana, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, New York, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Virginia, and Wisconsin. For each state, they report the number of people employed in each of the occupations affected by the green economy strategies, and what the average wages are in each state for each of these jobs. They also describe the national employment picture for each of the job categories.
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07/14/08 02:38PM
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Whatever It Takes (WIT) Project
Innovations in Action article about the Town of Hempstead Local Workforce Investment Board’s Whatever It Takes (WIT) initiative. The goal of the WIT program is to increase access to and usage of the HempsteadWorks One-Stop System by individuals with disabilities. The article describes the system enhancements, staff capacity-building efforts and how resources were leveraged. To view the slides presentation of a Ticket to Work presentation go to: http://www.workforce3one.org/view/4901/info
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04/21/08 01:07PM
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Green Collar Jobs Initiatives
The high cost of energy and the growing awareness to limit carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is creating a movement to "green" forms of energy throughout the United States and the world. Further, in 2006 alone, renewable energy and energy efficiency were responsible for $970 billion in industry revenues and 8.5 million jobs. The workforce development system can play a key role in this groundswell by building partnerships in the community that promote the development of "green" enterprises and provide the training and support needed to build a pipeline of skilled workers for these 'green-collar jobs. This article describes programs in Milwaukee, Chicago, Oakland, District of Columbia, and New York City that create economic and associated workforce solutions for this growing industry.
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04/08/08 01:32PM
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High Road Partnerships Report
This on line report and partnership toolkit by the AFL-CIO’s Working for America Institute examines 14 partnerships to identify elements likely to lead to success, barriers to effectiveness and tools to help these and other partnerships reach their potential. The services offered by many of the 14 high road partnerships studied here go beyond standard worker training and re-training to include plant modernization and market development help for employers, targeted assistance for minority and women job-seekers, technology-testing operations and high school equivalency, and English as a Second Language (ESL) education. Report identifies the elements that make partnerships successful, the barriers that stand in their way and the technical assistance that could expand their reach and effectiveness and provides examples.
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01/09/08 02:38PM
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Regional Technology Councils: A Strategy for Community and Economic Development
Regional technology councils assemble, energize, and empower those individuals and entities interested in pursuing technology-based economic development in their community or region. This paper, published by the Trent Lott Center, discusses the potential roles of Regional Technology Councils (RTCs) in community and economic development. Five RTCs are briefly examined. Four mechanisms of successful RTCs and recommendations for future research are provided. List of Technology Councils is on p.17 (Appendix A)
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11/05/07 10:14AM
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Red Carpet Business Team
Ulster County, New York created a “single portal” for workforce services called the “Red Carpet Business Team". This partnership brings the business services providers in Ulster County into an active network of workforce service agencies to assure support is convenient and accessible to firms for any issue related to investments, expansions, hiring, training, grants, tax credits, energy savings and other business services. Outreach materials include a print and radio ad which are linked within the article.
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09/11/07 11:16AM
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Great Lakes Vital Signs
This paper, published by the Brookings Institution, seeks to inform and catalyze needed discussion among the Great Lakes region’s Governors; the business, civic, and political stakeholders that influence state policy; the region’s Congressional delegation and federal leadership; round a winning economic vision for the Great Lakes region. It describes the history, its economic position today and includes the challenges it faces and the assets it offers. The report identifies ways states in the region can strengthen their economies through collective action, joining together with federal partners in pursuit of an integrated state, multi-state, and national policy agenda that can contribute meaningfully to economic prosperity in whole Great Lakes region. Important report as it examines far reaching solutions, regarding human capital development, rebuilding infrastructure and urban centers, enhancing training and worker benefits and transportation, that cross state lines and demonstrates how the states in the region could work together
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09/11/07 09:17AM
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Social Impact Studies
Beginning with the premise that a significant reason for inner-city disinvestment is the economic market failure of the lack of good market information, Social Compact offers neighborhood market analysis services to local governments, community organizations and businesses looking to attract investment or to invest in inner-cities. Working closely with community and corporate leaders over the past decade and a half, Social Compact has pioneered an understanding of inner-city markets and created accurate, business-oriented profiles of these neighborhood markets through its Neighborhood Market Drilldown. Drawing on business disciplines and community strengths, these profiles have a strong track record of catalyzing sustainable, private investment which benefits communities and businesses alike. The result: safer, healthier neighborhoods in which to live and do business. Nine urban profiles are currently available at the link: Detroit, MI, Cleveland, OH, Chicago, Il, Harlem, NY Washington DC, Jacksonville, FL, Houston, TX, Santa Ana, CA, and Oakland, CA. Resource for specific data and recommendations for these cities and good source of economic data some of which are available for all areas.
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07/27/07 09:41AM
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Work Readiness Assessments
Work or Career Readiness Assessments can be used to determine if an individual is work ready or may need remediation, and can also be used as a screening tool prior to more advanced achievement assessments, referral to training, or job placement. Work readiness is a term used to define whether individuals have the entry-level or foundational competencies needed to meet the demands of the workplace and to learn and advance on the job. The links on this page represent a few examples of these assessments and how they are used for talent development to ensure that workers have the skills needed to succeed in the 21st century economy.
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07/12/07 09:28AM
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National Work Readiness Credential
The National Work Readiness Credential is an assessment for entry-level workers to provide a universal, transferable, national standard for work readiness. It’s based on the nationally-validated Equipped for the Future learning standards, which were created as part of the National Institute for Literacy’s ten-year standards development initiative. When individuals successfully complete the assessment they receive a National Work Readiness Credential as a confirmation that they have the skills to add value on the frontline in entry level workplaces. A web-based assessment uses real world scenarios in four modules: situational judgment, oral language, reading with understanding, and using math to solve problems.
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07/10/07 09:55AM
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Work Readiness Credential - Chautauqua WIB
The national Work Readiness Credential was developed through a national consensus-building process that included businesses, unions, chambers of commerce, education and training professionals, and state workforce investment boards in the founding states of Florida, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, Washington, the District of Columbia, as well as Junior Achievement Worldwide. Chautauqua WIB has been involved for the last two years and participated as a field testing site to ensure that the credential was valid for our local business needs.
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07/09/07 01:44PM
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Ford ASSET Program Trains Erie CC Students In Automotive Technology
The Automotive Student Service in Education and Training (ASSET) program allows technical and vocational students to receive on-the-job training at sponsoring dealerships whle earning an Associates Degree in Automotive Technology. Sponsored by Ford Motor Company, the ASSET program combines classroom instruction with hands-on experience in a local Ford or Lincoln-Mercury dealership. The program was designed in response to a need for trained and certified technicians. Erie Community College has been a program partner since 1986. Students in the ASSET program earn wages and gain real life experience by working in the service department of dealership. The strategic alliance between ECC and Ford is expected to result in additional economic development dollars for Western New York. Ford committed to investing more than $1 million to the program, which will operate over five years.
