SkillsAware (Australia)
Upward Mobility Initiative – Urban Institute
Overview In September 2024, Urban Institute published the Upward Mobility Data Dashboard which is an outcome of the Upward Mobility Initiative. The initiative addresses the need for communities throughout the […]
Experience You – Education Design Lab & T3 Innovation Network
Overview Launched in January 2023 by the Education Design Lab (the Lab) and the T3 Innovation Network, the Experience You initiative explores how new technologies can convert massive amounts of […]
Digital Skills for Today’s Workforce Act – Proposed Amendment to Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act
Overview The Digital Skills for Today’s Workforce Act is bipartisan legislation introduced on March 13, 2024, in the U.S. Congress. The Act would amend the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act […]
Measurement For Mobility: How States Can Use Data to Incentivize Postsecondary & Workforce Success in Public Education (Education Strategy Group)
Overview Measurement For Mobility: How States Can Use Data to Incentivize Postsecondary and Workforce Success in Public Education is a report (45 pages) issued May 2024 by Education Strategy Group […]
HBCU Adult Learner Initiative (ALI)
Overview In fall 2021, Lumina Foundation awarded a $2 million grant to the HBCU Adult Learner Initiative (ALI) to identify and eliminate various barriers blocking adult students from the education […]
Data 101 – Data Quality Campaign
Overview In 2023, the Data Quality Campaign (DQC) issued Data 101, a briefing book to inform education leaders, policymakers, and other stakeholders about key topics related to education and workforce […]
Work Shift
Overview Work Shift is an independent, nonpartisan news organization, where news judgments and editorial decisions are made independently. Work Shift is a digital hub for news, analysis, and opinion focused […]
Credential Engine Initiative on Equity, Jobs Skills, and Pathways
Overview In July 2024, Credential Engine launched a 2-year initiative to expand education and employment information available as linked open data in the Credential Registry. The aim of this effort […]
Gallup Polls, Reports, & Partnerships
Overview Gallup Inc. is an American analytics and advisory company based in Washington, D.C. Founded in 1935, the company became known for its public opinion polls conducted worldwide. In the […]
Promising Practices Database: Community College Baccalaureate Degrees
Overview The Community College Baccalaureate Association (CCBA) created a Collection of Promising Practices to Advance Quality, Equity, and Success in Community College Baccalaureate Degree Programs, including proven solutions for making […]
BuildWithin: Software Platform in Apprenticeships
Overview BuildWithin is a software platform that launched in November 2022 to provide employers with the ability to create, manage, and expand apprenticeship programs in order to accelerate the productivity […]
Center for Skills by C-BEN – Competency-Based Education Network
Overview In April 2024, the Competency-Based Education Network (C-BEN) launched the Center for Skills by C-BEN (CFS x C-BEN). Supported by a $1.5 million grant from Walmart, the Center will […]
CareerNavGPT – SkillUp Coalition
Overview Launched by the SkillUp Coalition, CareerNavGPT has a mission to provide a guided and supported path to ensure that all STARs have access to high-opportunity and quality employment. CareerNacGPT […]
The Power of Systems Initiative – NASH
Overview The National Association of Higher Education Systems (NASH) manages a number of projects within its Power of Systems initiative launched in December 2021, and expanded in spring 2024. NASH […]
State Opportunity Index – Strada Education Foundation
Overview In April 2024, Strada Education Foundation published The State Opportunity Index to help state policymakers and higher education institutions assess how well they are leveraging post-high school education — […]
Bridging the Gap: A State Leader’s Guide to Implementing Summer Bridge Programs (Education Strategy Group)
Overview In March 2024, Education Strategy Group published A State Leader’s Guide to Implementing Summer Bridge Programs with support of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The Guide provides insights […]
Digital-Reskilling at Universities (D-Reskill Project)
Overview The D-RESKILL@U Project, coordinated by Sorbonne Université, focuses on providing European higher education institutions with guidelines for online lifelong learning offers at the post-bachelors level for the reskilling or […]
College Excellence Program — The Aspen Institute
Overview The Aspen Institute College Excellence Program aims to advance higher education practices, policies, and leadership in ways that help institutions of higher education make the choices that matter most […]
Value Data Collaborative (VDC)
Overview Launched in 2024 by the Institution for Higher Education Policy (IHEP), this initiative brings together representatives from states, institutions, and higher education systems to use data to better understand […]
Job & Skill Trends Tool – EUROPASS & ESCO
Overview Launched in October 2023, the Job & Skill Trends Tool developed from collaboration between ESCO and Europass as part of the implementation of the European Skills Agenda. The Tool relies on […]
Pathsmith™ (Durable Skills Advantage Framework) – America Succeeds
Overview Launched Jan. 17, 2024, the Durable Skills Advantage Framework is an employer-generated common lexicon for essential non-technical skills. The Framework is viewed as an important step in addressing education […]
WIOA Workforce Programs
Overview The federal Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) was signed into law on July 22, 2014. The Act is designed to help job seekers access employment, education, training, and […]
Building Rural Innovation, Designing Educational Strategies (BRIDGES) & The Rural College Practitioner Design & Data Academies
Overview BRIDGES (Building Rural Innovation, Designing Educational Strategies) is a 3-year initiative launched in 2020 by the Education Design Lab. The initiative focuses on strengthening the capacity of rural community […]
Multi-State Agreement: Data Analytics for Student Success, Institutional Efficiencies, & Integration – Midwestern Higher Education Compact & SAS Institute, Inc.
Overview An agreement between the Midwestern Higher Education Compact (MHEC) and SAS Institute makes SAS software bundles available to MHEC members at discounted prices. SAS software capabilities include data access, […]
Frontier Set
Overview Frontier Set was a national initiative (2015-2021) comprised of colleges, universities, state systems of higher education, and supporting organizations committed to (1) transforming how institutions operate by eliminating race, […]
Digital Skills Principles – Digital Divide
Overview On October 2, 2023, more than 70 corporate partners (including Fortune 500s, Chambers of Commerce, and small businesses), the National Skills Coalition, and Business Leaders United for Workforce Partnerships […]
LER Ecosystem Map (Learning & Employment Records)
Overview Learning and Employment Records (LERs) are digital records of learning and experience that are linked to and may be controlled by learners and earners. LERS are proposed to include […]
The Workforce Futures Initiative
Overview The Workforce Futures Initiative is a research collaboration between the American Enterprise Institute, the Brookings Institution, and the Project on Workforce at Harvard Kennedy School’s Malcolm Wiener Center for […]
Digital Equity
The concept that every person should have equal access to digital technologies, including internet access. The concept aims to address the divide in access to digital infrastructure that gives some […]
Digital Equity
Research: National Study of Workplace Equity – Boston College of Social Work & the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM)
Overview A research team from the Boston College of Social Work and the Society of Human Resources Management (SHRM) conducted the National Study of Workforce Equity. Findings were reported in […]
Workforce Equity Dashboard & Advancing Workforce Equity Guide – National Fund for Workforce Solutions
Overview The Workforce Equity Dashboard is part of a toolkit developed by the National Fund for Workforce Solutions to equip workforce leaders, disruptors, and changemakers with actionable data and resources […]
Short-Term-Credential Typology (HCM Strategists)
Overview HCM Strategists (HCM), with support from Lumina Foundation, conducted a comprehensive examination of short-term credential pathways across the U.S. HCM analyzed all 50 states to create a catalog of […]
Catalyze Registry
Overview On November 2, 2022, President Biden announced commitments made by more than 350 organizations in 50 states and territories as part of the Infrastructure Talent Pipeline Challenge (nationwide call […]
Data Collaborative for a Skills-based Economy (Data Collab) — Education Design Lab
Overview The Data Collaborative for a Skills-based Economy (Data Collab) is a data hub that connects and aggregates data across a range of data sources to uncover how new education-to-work […]
Delivering on the Degree: The College-to-Jobs Playbook
Overview Launched in April 2023, Delivering on the Degree: The College-to-Jobs Playbook was developed through The Project on Workforce with the aim to produce and catalyze basic and applied research at […]
Accelerate ED
Overview Accelerate ED focuses on building stronger, smoother, and accelerated pathways between K-12 education, postsecondary education, and careers. The initiative is coordinated by the Education Strategy Group (ESG) and supported […]
Launch: Equitable & Accelerated Pathways for All – Education Strategy Group
Overview The Launch: Equitable and Accelerated Pathways for All initiative was announced in February 2023 by the Education Strategy Group. The national initiative is developing college and career pathways that […]
Bendable (Lifelong Learning Platform) – Bendable Labs & Drucker Institute
Overview Bendable is a community-powered learning marketplace. It operates a lifelong learning platform that was established initially in 2020 to allow residents of all ages and backgrounds in South Bend, […]
Tracking Transfer & Transfer Playbook 2.0 — The Aspen Institute & Community College Research Center
Overview The Aspen Institute College Excellence Program and Community College Research Center launched a two-year new project in fall 2022 to deliver the “second edition” of the Transfer Playbook, made […]
HBCUv
Overview HBCUv is a multi-year initiative that is building a virtual e-learning ecosystem for Black colleges and universities. With institutional partners and tech innovators, HBCUv’s pilot launched Fall 2023 with nine […]
Centralized DEI (Diversity, Equity & Inclusion) Education Research Platform
Overview In November 2021, the National Student Clearinghouse launched a new research-focused diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) online initiative. With support from the Cognizant Foundation, the initiative works to build a long-term, collaborative environment […]
Every Learner Everywhere
Overview Every Learner Everywhere was launched in 2017 with the support of a grant from the Gates Foundation to create a network of partner organizations with expertise in evaluating, implementing, […]
Advancing Equity and Upward Mobility through Community College-Employer Partnerships (ACE-UP)
Overview Launched in 2023, Corporation for a Skilled Workforce (CSW), with support from Lumina Foundation, convened 20-25 community colleges and their industry partners a community of practice, Advancing Community Equity […]
National Skills Coalition (NSC)
Learn & Work Ecosystem Library
Overview Accurate and timely information about developments in the learn-and-work ecosystem are essential for those working to improve the ecosystem. Yet information is too often siloed and difficult to access […]
SkillsEngine – Texas State Technical College (TSTC)
Overview SkillsEngine is a technology innovation team based in Austin, Texas. The team builds data-driven solutions to connect the worlds of learning and work through a unified skills language. Its […]
American Opportunity Index
Overview Created in Fall 2022, the American Opportunity Index assesses how well America’s largest companies foster workers’ economic mobility and how they could do better. It ranks 250 large companies […]
Racial Equity for Adult Credentials In Higher Education (REACH) Collaborative
Overview The Racial Equity for Adult Credentials in Higher Education (REACH) Collaborative is a national initiative of Lumina Foundation. It focuses on creating pathways designed for Black, Hispanic, and Native […]