Keeping America in Business: Advancing Workers, Businesses, and Economic Growth
Date
2003
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Author(s) The American Assembly
The 2003 convening of workforce experts discussed how to advance the nation's workforce development goals by improving workforce intermediaries, those institutions that address the needs of both employers and less-skilled workers; integrate funding streams from public and private sector programs; and reduce turnover and increase economic mobility for workers.
Robert Giloth, director of The Annie E. Casey Foundation and intellectual architect of the Assembly, in 2010 reported that the National Fund for Workforce Solutions (NFWS), a direct outgrowth of the meeting, now includes 8-9 national foundations and 100 local foundations.  NFWS also played a key role in shaping the American Recovery and Reinvestment (Stimulus) Act of 2009.
 
"Workforce Intermediaries for the 21st Century," the accompanying volume, continues to be widely distributed and cited as a key, foundational book for the field.
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