Welcome to SkillWorks’s new Web site. This is a work in progress to serve our partnerships, our funders, and job seekers throughout Boston, so please excuse any inconvenience. Thank you.

SkillWorks is an ambitious effort on the part of philanthropy, government, community organizations, unions, and employers to create a workforce development system.

  • Helps low-skill, low-income residents move to family-sustaining jobs
  • Helps employers find and retain skilled employees.


SkillWorks engages in three
key systems-change strategies:

Workforce Partnerships:

Industry-sector or occupationally based workforce
intermediaries are the operational approach to achieving
the SkillWorks dual goal.

Strengthening Capacity:

SkillWorks makes organizations that provide workforce
training and education services more effective at helping
their low-income constituents achieve family economic
self-sufficiency.

Public Policy Advocacy:

SkillWorks seeks to institutionalize better ways for
low-income individuals to enter and succeed in the
workforce.

SkillWorks is now proudly endorsing Skills2Compete

Downloads

 

  • SkillWorks, the Workforce Solutions Group, and the National Skills Coalition sponsored released the Massachusetts' Forgotten Middle Skill Jobs report on July 14, 2010
    Download the Report
  • SkillWorks, the Workforce Solutions Group and local partners launched the Skills2Compete Massachusetts Campaign on July 14, 2010
    Download Recommendations
  • SkillWorks releases Systems Change evaluation report for 2009.
    Download Full Report