5 Takeaways from the 2025 Reality Check report

5 Takeaways from the 2025 Reality Check report

Ohio Excels recently released its 2025 Reality Check report, one of those annual reports I eagerly wait upon and inhale as soon as it’s available. (If you are just learning about Ohio Excels, it’s a non-profit founded in 2018 by Ohio business leaders to help improve...
10 Years of Generation Work in Greater Cleveland

10 Years of Generation Work in Greater Cleveland

The Annie E. Casey Foundation, a national foundation committed to helping children and young adults to thrive, recently published a report to provide actionable insights for funders, non-profits, public partners, and others to create meaningful economic opportunities...
5 Takeaways from TeamNEO’s IT Career Research

5 Takeaways from TeamNEO’s IT Career Research

TeamNEO recently completed a research study commissioned by the Cuyahoga County Workforce Funders Group regarding career opportunities in greater Cleveland for workers without bachelor’s degrees in entry level IT careers. The goal of the research was to answer the...
Generative AI Use Cases for Workforce Development

Generative AI Use Cases for Workforce Development

We are excited to welcome Tiffany Hsieh to the City Club on October 24, as part of the annual Deaconess Foundation celebration of the legacy of our former CEO, Deborah Vesy. Tiffany Hsieh is the director of innovation programs in the Incubation practice at JFF Labs....
Keeping Track of Federal Funding Changes in Workforce

Keeping Track of Federal Funding Changes in Workforce

With the changes in Federal policy and programming coming fast and furious, it can be hard to keep track of them, and to understand them (such as the implications and details of the recently passed Federal budget.) Here’s where I turn to national partners – those...