Elizabeth Shuler Secretary – Treasurer AFL-CIO http://www.aflcio.org/About

Lumina funded collaborative to advance best practices designed to ease the transition of veterans and their families from military life to college campuses, with special reference to translating competencies acquired through military training and experiences into milestones toward completing a college degree or earning a certificate or license. Managed by Multi-State Collaborative on Military Credit and funded by the Lumina Foundation.

Multi-State Collaborative on Military Credit (MCMC), a 13-state initiative to identify policies and practices to help military service members, veterans, and their families to overcome barriers to access, participation, and completion of a postsecondary credential and entrance into the workforce. Managed by the Midwestern Higher Education Compact and funded by the Lumina Foundation.

Multistate Longitudinal Data Exchange is building a system to exchange individual-level education and workforce data among at least 10 states. Project builds on previous work to share data among four states. Managed by the Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education and funded by the Gates Foundation.

MyBestBets is a web and mobile application that supports low-income young adults in answering important career questions by guiding them to the right choices when it comes to postsecondary education and training pathways. Managed by JFF and YouthBuild and funded by the Noce Family Foundation, the Pinkerton Foundation, the oak Foundation, the Hyams Foundation, Accenture & the U.S. Department of Labor.

Several of America’s top companies have committed to NAFTrack Certified Hiring, a promise to give special consideration to college students and eventual job applicants who as high school students earned NAFTrack Certification which is based on a rigorous and comprehensive assessment of students’ academic proficiency, project execution and internship performance. Managed by NAF and funded by the National Academy Foundation.

Process to link data sets to determine ROI on different certifications. Managed and funded by NAM, National Student Clearinghouse. Managed and funded by NAM, National Student Clearinghouse, Census Bureau. www.nam.org www.studentclearinghouse.org www.census.gov

Recommend innovations and reduce regulator burden. Managed and funded by the National Advisory Committee on Institutional Quality.