An impact workforce strategy doesn’t have to be built alone—who will be on your team?
Outside Partners
List the following organizations in your community
| Organization Type | Potential Partners |
| Workforce development boards: Regional entities that direct public workforce development programs | |
| Mayor’s office of economic development, or similar public agency | |
| Job training organizations | |
| Workforce intermediaries and placement organizations | |
| Community-based organizations focused on employment and job readiness | |
| Community-based organizations focused on youth | |
| Community-based organizations that provide services to justice-involved individuals | |
| Community-based organizations focused on specific populations such as refugees and immigrants or young people aging out of the foster care system | |
| Community-based organizations focused on literacy and skill building | |
| Place-based initiatives focused on advancing cradle-to-career outcomes | |
| Place-based initiatives focused on economic mobility | |
| Community colleges | |
| Professional schools, nursing schools, and other allied health-profession training institutions |
Inside Partners
Who are the key players within your own organization that can help move this effort forward?
| Internal Role | Key Staff Members |
| Directors and managers in charge of hiring in the largest departments | |
| Recruitment staff | |
| Community outreach and government relations | |
| Workforce development, training, and learning | |
| Human resources benefits staff (in charge of tuition assistance) | |
| Temporary hiring and intra-staffing | |
| Information technology and software management | |
| Legal department (staff in charge of restrictions around hiring justice-involved individuals, assessing equal opportunity compliance) | |
| Strategic planning team | |
| Employee bargaining units and union representation | |
| Board members from other major employers | |
| Procurement and supply chain (staff in charge of writing contracts that could include provisions for recruiting contracted employees from geographies of focus) | |
| Construction (staff in charge of writing contracts that could include provisions for recruiting from geographies of focus) |