America Achieves is a national nonprofit organization established in 2010. The organization’s mission is to create clear pathways for economic advancement and success for all in a rapidly changing economy. It catalyzes large-scale impact by generating and incubating ideas, delivering thought partnership and philanthropic funding to promising and sustainable models, and convening and advising foundations and other key leaders to advance evidence-based solutions. Essential to these efforts is creating a shared understanding of the challenge and the range of potential solutions to ensure Americans can obtain the education and skills they need to be successful in the 21st century workplace.

Main initiatives of America Achieves include:

• The Tech Hubs Initiative, supporting efforts to expand the production of critical technologies, create jobs in future-facing sectors, and advance U.S. economic competitiveness and security. In January 2025, an additional $210 million was awarded in grants to continue the initiative.
• The White House’s The Infrastructure Talent Pipeline, , launched in June 2022 is supported by a collaboration with the What Works Plus Collaborative and The Families and Workers Fund. The initiative brought together employers, unions, education and training providers, states, local governments, Tribes, territories, philanthropic organizations, and other stakeholders to make commitments to support workforce development. The commitments resulted in a number of deliverables, including the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers training more than 20,000 members in the electric vehicle infrastructure program.
• The What Works Plus (WW+) Collaborative coordinates across philanthropy, nonprofits, and government to advance equity and climate resilience by addressing gaps in the implementation of federal infrastructure funding. The collaborative focuses on developing and supporting partnerships that result in better outcomes for communities, workers, and entrepreneurs across four main areas: (1) government capacity building, (2) diverse pipelines to good infrastructure jobs, (3) inclusive and equitable procurement, and (4) community engagement.
• In November 2022, America Achieves and the WW+ Collaborative launched the Catalyze Registry. The Registry is an innovative hub and matchmaking service to connect promising local talent pipeline initiatives with foundations and other nonprofit organizations that might fund those efforts. The goals of the Registry are to: (1) increase philanthropic funding to scale effective infrastructure talent and workforce development initiatives and to launch promising new efforts; (2) ensure foundations have easy access to promising initiatives that match closely to their interests and have been carefully analyzed; and (3) enable initiatives to efficiently share their proposals with a wide variety of foundations, and to give coalitions and organizations that completed applications for targeted federal funding programs additional opportunities for funding. [As of April 2025, it is uncertain whether the program is still accessible, as certain internal links are not working.]

Resources

Talent Pipeline Challenge (2022)

Talent Pipeline Update (2024)

WW+

Catalyze Registry

Tech Hub Initiative