The Community Foundation maintains a core focus on ensuring equity, access, and opportunity for our region’s diverse communities. To this end, our efforts in employment and workforce development figure prominently across many of our major initiatives and projects.

Our 2004-05 Spirit of Giving guide highlighted 15 effective nonprofits supporting programs linked to workforce development in our region. Additionally, The Community Foundation has recently launched a new funding collaborative, the Greater Washington Workforce Development Collaborative, focused solely on funding nonprofit solutions to our region’s workforce development issues.

Please follow the links below for a more indepth view of our major employment and workforce development initiatives.

Greater Washington Workforce Development Collaborative
Read about our strategy for preparing residents to enter and succeed in the workplace .>MORE

Spirit of Giving Guide 2004-05:Employment and Workforce Development Programs
Download the guide to learn about 15 regional nonprofits dedicated to these issues. >MORE

Partnership for Equity
Read about the new collaborative that is bringing together the former Washington Partnership for Immigrants and The Common Ground Fund. >MORE