While many businesses understand the important effects that high-quality afterschool programs and services can have on their bottom line and productivity, they are unsure how to become involved.
Publications and Toolkits
Workforce Readiness
Afterschool Business to Business Afterschool Toolkit (December 2005)
Afterschool for All: A Call to Action from the Business Community (March 2004)
Over the past decade, the business community has been a leader in supporting quality afterschool programs for young people through the creation of innovative public-private initiatives as well as through private philanthropic efforts.
Early Childhood Education: A Call to Action from the Business Community (March 2003)
Over the past two decades business leaders have invested time, expertise and resources in efforts to improve K-12 education in the United States. What we have learned leads us to conclude that America’s continuing efforts to improve education and develop a world-class workforce will be hampered without a federal and state commitment to early childhood education for 3- and 4-year-old children.
Related News and Events
Washington, D.C. (April 27, 2010) – John-Anthony Meza will join Corporate Voices for Working Families June 1 as Vice President of Workforce Readiness. Meza is currently national director of corporate citizenship at KPMG where he is responsible for the day-to-day operations of KPMG’s national community involvement programs.
Bookmark/Search this post with:Corporate Voices for Working Families launched its newly formed Earn and Learn Working Group on February 24 in Washington, D.C. Leaders from twenty companies came together to share promising practices in employer-led, talent development models that help entry-level workers attain post-secondary credentials with value in the labor market, particularly for young adults 16 to 26.
Bookmark/Search this post with:SEATTLE (Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation) – Industry groups, corporate executives, government officials and education advocates will meet this week in Washington, D.C. to discuss how they can create affordable, practical education pathways that allow more young adults to earn a postsecondary credential that gives them a competitive edge in the workforce.
Bookmark/Search this post with:Washington, D.C. (February 12, 2010) – As part of the Obama administration’s focus on preparing workers for 21st century jobs, the president included in his fiscal year 2011 budget request $261 million to establish two innovation funds that will enhance workforce readiness training for young people preparing to enter the workplace.
Bookmark/Search this post with:WASHINGTON, D.C. (Dec. 4, 2009) — Donna Klein, Executive Chair and Founder of Corporate Voices for Working Families, was one of a select group of 130 national leaders from business, nonprofit organizations and education who were invited by President Obama to share their ideas on job creation during the White House Forum on Jobs and Economic Growth.
Klein was part of a panel discussion, Preparing Workers and Strengthening Main Street, led by Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis and Melody Barnes, Director of the Domestic Policy Council.
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