In the first year of the pandemic, the Mayor’s Office of Workforce Development (OWD) channeled nearly $17 million to more than 120 local organizations that provided job training, education, career coaching, English instruction, youth programming, and other essential services detailed
As part of its efforts to align funding strategies with community needs, the Mayor’s Office of Workforce Development (OWD) recently surveyed a large group of grantees to learn more about programs’ transition to remote and hybrid programming. The findings offer
The Mayor’s Office of Workforce Development (OWD) distributed more than $15 million from July 2019 – June 2020 to 88 organizations that serve Boston’s workers, according to the newly released Fiscal Year 2020 annual report, Boston’s Workforce Recovery: Resilience and Racial
The Mayor’s Office of Workforce Development is launching the Boston Employer Forum Series of virtual panel discussions to share information on hiring needs in local industries during COVID-19. Each panel will feature sector-specific labor market data presented by Dr. Alicia
The Mayor’s Office of Workforce Development (OWD) distributed more than $13 million from July 2018 – June 2019 to 85 local organizations that serve Boston’s workers, according to the newly released Fiscal Year 2019 OWD Annual Report. These organizations provided
Between 2017 and 2018 more than 2,000 Boston residents accessed job training and education programs thanks to the Neighborhood Jobs Trust, a public charitable trust fed by linkage fees from developers of large-scale commercial projects in the City of Boston.
When it comes to teaching young people about credit, Alicia Sasser Modestino jokes that adults are about as wary of the topic as they are of sex ed: “Adults are afraid if they teach kids about it, they’ll want to
A panel of employers and workforce development professionals convened at Wayfair headquarters March 27 to weigh in on a new report exploring the capabilities of Boston workers without bachelor’s degrees. The report, Untapped: Redefining Hiring in the New Economy, found
At a time when more and more jobs require a bachelor’s degree, a new report released today by the Mayor’s Office of Workforce Development suggests that many Boston workers without a four-year degree possess the necessary skills to fill these
The Mayor’s Office of Workforce Development (OWD) channeled over $14 million to more than 100 local organizations from July 2017 to June 2018, according to the Fiscal Year 2018 OWD Annual Report, released today. These organizations provided valuable job training,