A Look at the Common Ideas Behind Large Employment-Development Programs

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Locally Grown: Key Strategies for Expanding Workforce Services, by Sheila Maguire, provides case studies of three employment and job-readiness programs that successfully expanded their operations. It examines the Center for Work Education and Employment, in Denver; Goodwill Industries of Middle Georgia, in Macon; and St. Nicholas Neighborhood Preservation Corporation, in New York. Each organization is described in detail: its history, leadership, context, programs, financial situation, and impetus for growth. A chapter synthesizes the groups’ experiences into a set of four shared principles, with examples to illustrate how each one contributed to the group’s successful expansion and recommendations for other employment groups that seek to expand.

Publisher: Public/Private Ventures, 2000 Market Street, Suite 600, Philadelphia, Pa. 19103; (215) 557-4400; fax (215) 557-4469; http://www.ppv.org; 48 pages; $10 for hard copy or free for download on the organization’s Web site.