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Community Based Jobs: Creating Fertile Economic Gardens and Enabling Local Resident Entrepreneurs in Tough Times Big Ideas for Job Creation Conference June 16, 2011. CSW’s Mission & Work. Increasing economic opportunity and sustainable prosperity for people, companies, and communities
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Community Based Jobs: Creating Fertile Economic Gardens and Enabling Local Resident Entrepreneurs in Tough Times Big Ideas for Job Creation Conference June 16, 2011
CSW’s Mission & Work • Increasing economic opportunity and sustainable prosperity for people, companies, and communities • Helping states, regions, and communities reimagine policies and investments that support work and learning in the 21st century • Engaging in public policy research, development, and technical assistance in the areas of education, economic, and workforce development
Big Idea for Job Creation • Growing out of work CSW has been doing in communities around the country • Engaging at the nexus of economic, workforce, and community development • Documenting the emergence of this in Detroit – Food Systems and Building Upgrades • Comparing Detroit to a few other places • Analyzing against criteria (feasibility, replicability, scalability, sustainability)
Community Based Job Creation • Responding to untapped local market development, • Building capacity of resident entrepreneurs and local businesses • Targeting sustainability-driven sectors and clusters where TBL wealth building can happen • Focusing on industries where startup and small-to-medium businesses can thrive • Paying attention to quality of jobs and who in the industry has access to them • Creating pathways for low-income low-skilled workers
Integrated Strategies Engaging Residents & Building Skills
Detroit: Food System • Emerging cluster of activity • Community interest and demand for alternatives • Desire to organize and build a sector or cluster partnership • Skills, credentials and agreements for workers • Set of economic gardening and enterprise development efforts • Alignment of public and private sector stakeholders
Detroit: Buildings • Adapting sector strategies to address demand and supply • Unusual level of public-private-nonprofit collaboration toward sustainable industry, jobs Emerging sector creating local jobs Taking steps to educate and organize community demand
Making it Happen • Enabling It – the policy piece • Building It – the market piece • Supporting It – the business services and capacity building piece • Supplying It – the workforce training piece • Sustaining It -- the systems building and scaling part
Testing Assumptions • Practicality • Feasibility • Replicability • Adaptability • Scalability • Sustainability
Getting Feedback?! • Jeannine LaPrad • jmlaprad@skillework.org Michael DiRamio mdiramio@skilledwork.org