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Introduction

• Why a Jobs Toolbox?
Three Strategies for Change
Case Studies
• How to Use the Toolbox
• Why Think About Jobs During and Economic Boom?
• Jobs and the Economy
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
• Jobs and Public Policy
Welfare Reform
Workforce Development Reform
Other Policy Issues
• Tackling Jobs through Effective Grantmaking
Analyze the Problem
Diagnose the Problem
Determine the Value Strategies Add
• Supporting Organizations Not Just Programs
Core Support is Essential
Organizational Development
Program Development and Technical Assistance
Public Policy
• Why a Neighborhood Focus?
Neighborhood Imperialism vs. Independence
Why Connect Neighborhoods and Jobs?

• Employment and Training Strategies
Types of Programs
• Background and History
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
• Current Strategies
Community Organizing and Workforce Development
A Victory in Baltimore: Build
Other Neighborhood Successes: QUEST & HART
Replicating Success: CET
• Lessons from the Strategy
Concluding Thoughts

• Welfare Reform
Three Approaches to Welfare Reform
• Organizing Around Public Policy and Advocacy
Workfare as a Focus
Policy Advocacy at the State and Regional Level 
Linking Organizing and Policy Advocacy
• Research and Monitoring
Philanthropic Efforts to Close the Research Gap
The Continuing Research Agenda
• Direct Services
Caseload Reduction vs. Job-Readiness Training
Grantmaking and Welfare Reform
Lessons from the Strategy
Concluding Thoughts

• Sectoral Development Strategies
What Makes a Sectoral Strategy?
Supporting Sectoral Strategies
Sectoral Economic Development Strategies
• CDCs as Sectoral Economic Development Pioneers
Flexible Manufacturing
Cluster-Based Analysis
Lessons from the Strategy
• Sectoral Employment Development Strategies
Sectoral Employment Development as Systemic Change: CHCA
Focus:Hope
Lessons from the Strategy
• Combining Economic and Employment Development
A Lesson for all Sectoral Development Programs
• Sectoral Development Strategies: The Casey Jobs Initiative: Using All Three Strategies

• Case Studies
Crosscutting Themes
• The Charles Stewart Mott Foundation
• The Pittsburgh Foundation
• The Discount Foundation

• Resources
• Organizations

 

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