Two weeks ago, the Councils of both the City of Cleveland and Cuyahoga County approved a piece of legislation (proposed by Mayor Bibb and County Executive Ronayne) with significant impact. The legislation authorized the reorganization of our local public workforce...
This is a guest post by Jeffrey Weston Sleasman, Senior Director of Applied Research at the Fund for Our Economic Future. As the Fund for Our Economic Future has worked to elevate and address mobility challenges facing Northeast Ohio’s workforce in recent years, we...
This is a guest post by Grace Heffernan, Board Chair, Northeast Ohio Worker Center. The Northeast Ohio Worker Center (NEOWC) is an organization built by workers, for workers, to organize against the systems that have workers isolated, overworked, underpaid, and...
Apprenticeships are workforce development programs which enable an individual to secure a well-paying job after a period of “learning and earning”. Apprenticeships pay individuals to do real work, under the guidance of experts who help them develop both their...
Has your organization achieved measurable systems change and/or scalable innovation within a workforce initiative? If your Cuyahoga County nonprofit has successfully completed either systems change or scalable innovation or both in a workforce context, we welcome you...
Recently, Ohio Workforce Coalition and other statewide partners commissioned the Center for Community Solutions to compile data regarding top occupations in Cuyahoga County in which workers are potentially impacted by the benefits cliff. (See below for a quick...
