Three Strategies for Change
Case Studies

Work no Longer Ensures a Route out of Poverty
A Changing Relationship between Employment and Poverty
Structural Changes in the Economy Affect Labor Markets
The Skills Gap
The Contingent Worker Trend
Contingent Workers are Cheaper for Employers
Local Employers are Affected by Global Business

Welfare Reform
Workforce Development Reform
Other Policy Issues

Analyze the Problem
Diagnose the Problem
Determine the Value Strategies Add

Core Support is Essential
Organizational Development
Program Development and Technical Assistance
Public Policy

Neighborhood Imperialism vs. Independence
Why Connect Neighborhoods and Jobs?

Types of Programs

The War on Poverty
The Move to Housing Production
Focus on the Private Sector
Making Workforce Development Programs Effective
Philanthropy's Role in Creating Effective Programs

Community Organizing and Workforce Development
A Victory in Baltimore: Build
Other Neighborhood Successes: QUEST & HART
Replicating Success: CET

Concluding Thoughts

Three Approaches to Welfare Reform

Workfare as a Focus
Policy Advocacy at the State and Regional Level
Linking Organizing and Policy Advocacy

Philanthropic Efforts to Close the Research Gap
The Continuing Research Agenda

Caseload Reduction vs. Job-Readiness Training
Grantmaking and Welfare Reform
Lessons from the Strategy
Concluding Thoughts

What Makes a Sectoral Strategy?
Supporting Sectoral Strategies
Sectoral Economic Development Strategies

Flexible Manufacturing
Cluster-Based Analysis
Lessons from the Strategy

Sectoral Employment Development as Systemic Change: CHCA
Focus:Hope
Lessons from the Strategy

A Lesson for all Sectoral Development Programs

Crosscutting Themes