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)