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Sector Skills Academy 2010 Marano Fellows Announced

P/PV and the Aspen Institute's Workforce Strategies Initiative are pleased to announce the selection of the Sector Skills Academy's sixth class of Marano Fellows. The Academy is designed to support the next generation of innovative leaders in sectoral workforce development. For more information, please visit www.sectorskillsacademy.org; to view a list of the 2010 Fellows, click here.

		The Benchmarking Project is Now Accepting New Data!

P/PV is now conducting another round of data collection and will be accepting new data surveys through August 13, 2010. Click here to learn more about the project and to sign up for informational conference calls scheduled over the next few weeks.

		Now Available: Updated After-School Resource Guide

P/PV has recently updated the online resource guide that accompanies Putting It All Together: Guiding Principles for Quality After-School Programs Serving Preteens, a report commissioned by the Lucile Packard Foundation for Children's Health. Click here to view new research and tools designed to strengthen after-school programs, particularly those serving preteens.

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P/PV is fortunate to collaborate with committed practitioners around the country—evaluating their programs, working together to identify challenges and best practices, and replicating effective models. From this experience, we distill lessons about effective program strategies and compile them in reports, toolkits, curricula, workshops and conferences, all designed to help service-delivery organizations more effectively fulfill their individual missions. More >>

Publications for Practitioners

Navigating the Child Support System: Lessons from the Fathers at Work Initiative
Navigating the Child Support System provides a basic introduction to child support enforcement and shares tips, tools and cautions for workforce organizations that aim to help noncustodial fathers understand and manage their obligations. It is based on the experiences of sites that participated in the Fathers at Work initiative.

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Using Data for Success: Five Activities for Workforce Managers to Use with Frontline Staff
Commissioned by the Edna McConnell Clark Foundation and based on input from its grantees and other practitioners, Using Data for Success is designed to help workforce development organizations use data to improve their performance and the well-being of their clients.

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How Community-Based Organizations Can Learn about the Needs and Strengths of Disconnected Young People: Hudson Guild of New York City's Youth Survey Effort
In Fall 2007, Hudson Guild embarked on a study to assess the needs of youth in their community who were disconnected or at risk of becoming disconnected. This brief provides the survey they conducted in its entirety and a companion decision-making tool that can be utilized by other organizations interested in undertaking a similar effort.

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Initiatives for Practitioners

Evaluation of Financial Management in Out-of-School Time
This initiative seeks to strengthen the financial-management practices of out-of-school-time programs by evaluating two distinct capacity-building strategies.

Ready2Thrive: A Resource Center & Practitioners' Network
P/PV has received support from the Ford Foundation to create Ready2Thrive, a web-based practitioners' network for organizations working to improve outcomes for African American, Latino and other young males of color who are at high risk for poor economic, educational, social and health-related outcomes.

Sector Strategies Practicum
Funded by the New York City Workforce Innovation Fund, the practicum will assist selected New York City organizations in the development of practical plans for launching or strengthening sectoral approaches.

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