Learn and Work Ecosystem Platforms – A Briefing and Workshop for Workforce Matters Members

Join Workforce Matters for a briefing and workshop with the Learn & Work Ecosystem Library and the Workforce Almanac. This interactive session will introduce members to two key open access, complementary platforms providing information to a range of stakeholders including foundations and their grantees. Presenters will demonstrate real-time use cases and provide opportunities for discussion and feedback to inform future development/iterations of these platforms.

The Library, launched Dec. 2022, will share its growing collection, search options enhanced by use of AI chatbot, mapping features, and partnerships with higher ed institutions/organizations. The Library’s content is aimed at 20+ stakeholder groups in the learn-and-work ecosystem including K-12 schools, higher ed institutions, tech vendors, foundations, employers/workforce, intermediaries, and policymakers. With 950+ artifacts (300+ terms in Glossary, 290+ Initiatives and 270+ Organizations working to improve components of the learn/work ecosystem, 90+ topics addressing key subjects, and relational maps depicting relationships among efforts, info is available for short reports and other uses for funders to inform their investments and collaborations.
The Workforce Almanac, launched Nov. 2023 by the Harvard Project on Workforce, will share its open-source, interactive portal of nearly 17,000 workforce training providers across the U.S. The portal maps providers of short-term, post-high-school workforce training, including institutions of higher ed, federally registered apprenticeships, nonprofit organizations, and WIOA-eligible training organizations. The Almanac combines four publicly available data sources into one new dataset: IPEDS, RAPIDS, IRS 990-series on nonprofits, and TrainingProviderResults.org. The Workforce Almanac portal and underlying dataset offer a system-level view of workforce training providers, depicting how they are spread geographically across the U.S., their names, addresses, and types.

Speakers:

Nathalie Gazzaneo, co-director, The Workforce Almanac, The Project on Workforce, Harvard University
Matthew Valdez, librarian, Learn & Work Ecosystem Library
Holly Zanville, research professor, George Washington University; founder/lead, Learn & Work Ecosystem Library; co-lead Credential As You Go (former Strategy Director, Lumina Foundation)

Email info@workforce-matters.org for more information. Registration link coming soon.