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What is Business' Role in Ready by 21?
Businesses thrive in communities where youth thrive!
Corporate Voices challenges business leaders to invest in workforce readiness as a business imperative. Business leaders can work with the Ready by 21 National Partnership as collaborators in their efforts to advance global competitiveness.
Business and education need better alignment around workforce development and resources across the board. Corporate Voices’ goals for Ready by 21 include:
- Raising the bar for business and community leadership to work together to address the needs of youth;
- Developing a network of business thought-leaders at both the national and local levels committed to improving youth outcomes;
- Combining resources in ways that maximize the impact to communities while helping businesses prosper; and
- Engaging in policy conversations where business can advocate for effective policies to support these goals.
Workforce Readiness Blog Posts
01/10/2012
By Dorian Friedman Corporate Voices is proud to have contributed two important chapters to a new thought-leadership anthology on workforce management issues, published this week by our friends at The Workforce Institute™ at Kronos. Elements of Successful Organizations: Achieving Strong Leadership, Smart Management, and an Engaged Workforce, is a rich collection of articles by some [...]
01/06/2012
Corporate Voices and a number of our partner companies played a key role in a White House event held January 5 to launch the Summer Jobs Plus Initiative. “Corporate Voices for Working Families supports the Obama administration in launching the Summer Jobs Plus initiative, which recognizes that there are a number of ways that employers [...]
12/08/2011
by Dorian Friedman As business leaders and politicians alike lament the skills gap that has slowed America’s economic recovery, employers who embrace training for their current workers are finding promising results and an impressive return on their investment. That is the main conclusion of Why Companies Invest in ‘Grow Your Own’ Talent Development Models, a [...]