The Career Ladders Project (CLP) is a nonprofit organization created in 2013 when the Adult Education Block Grants were created to gather regional consortia support for strategic planning and research. CLP's mission is to promote equity-minded redesign in California community colleges to help more students achieve certificates, degrees, and career advancement. This includes collaborating with colleges and partners to discover, develop, and disseminate practices, policy work, and research.

Examples of recent work include:

• Cloud Computing Pathways
  • Initiative aligns curriculum with industry needs and provides work-based learning opportunities to scale new career pathways in the emerging field of cloud computing.
• Dual Enrollment Practitioner Guides
  • In collaboration with EdTrust-West, CLP released three guides to help K-12 and college educators make dual enrollment accessible and impactful for students.

Resources

Career Ladders Project. (2025). Home. CLP. Retrieved November 22, 2025, from https://careerladdersproject.org/