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Launched in November 2023, the Workforce Almanac is an open-source, interactive portal of nearly 17,000 workforce training providers across the United States.
The Almanac defines workforce training as short-term (lasting less than two years), post-high school training opportunities in which learners gain work-relevant skills to help them find a job.
The first edition of the Almanac contains 16,781 providers operating across the U.S. It includes non-degree-granting and sub-baccalaureate degree-granting institutions of higher education, private nonprofit organizations, private for-profit organizations, and apprenticeship programs. Higher education institutions that provide workforce training, such as community colleges, technical colleges, and departments of four-year colleges offering associate's degrees or workforce programs have the most robust coverage in the Almanac.
The Almanac combines training provider information from the following four sources into one new dataset:
The dataset offers a comprehensive view of workforce training providers, depicting how workforce training providers are spread geographically across the U.S. and view their names, addresses, and types.
Users of the Almanac can explore workforce training providers at the local, state, and national levels. Examples of users include:
The Almanac project is led by the Project on Workforce at Harvard University.
The project addresses a number of pressing workforce development issues, including a lack of open-access, systemic data and evidence about the workforce development sector:
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