To achieve a skills-based labor market that works for everyone, Markle, along with Microsoft, LinkedIn, the state of Colorado, and local partners, is building Skillful. Starting in Colorado, we are integrating businesses, state government, non-profits, and educators to forge a new way of creating and accessing opportunity. Using data and technology tools, we are providing transparency around the value of educational and training programs, giving educators a clearer picture of…

Skills oriented hiring and training. Managed by Skillful and funded by Microsoft and the Markle Foundation.

Skills for America’s Future promotes partnerships between employers and community colleges. Managed by the Aspen Institute and funded by the U.S. Department of Labor.

Byron Auguste Managing Director Opportunity@Work http://www.opportunityatwork.org

SlingShot seeks to seed collaborative efforts by employers and industry, government, workforce and economic development, and education stakeholders within a region to identify and then work to solve employment challenges that slow California’s economic engine — with regionally-selected solutions to regionally-defined problems.  Managed by SlingShot and funded by the State of California.

This framework allows consumers to register their skills and knowledge to more closely match jobs and careers for which they are uniquely suited.

This tools provides a specific framework for training providers and employers to standardized qualifications for jobs.

Georgetown University Center on Education & the Workforce works with private data suppliers including Burning Glass Technologies and the National Association of State Workforce Agencies (NASWA) in the use of real time job ads data. See Reports: Online College Labor Market and Ranking the States. Managed by the Georgetown University Center on Education & the Workforce and funded by the Gates, Lumina & Joyce Foundations.