Tools to Power Your Workforce

This publication details seven key components of a modernized tuition assistance program, including flexibility, inclusiveness, affordability, and support. This information can be useful to employers seeking to develop or enhance a tuition assistance program and to practitioners who work with businesses to improve worker mobility.

A focus on skills based learning, Skillful – an initiative of the Markle Foundation – works with employers, educators, policymakers and others to help the nearly 70% of Americans without college degrees get good jobs based on the skills they have or the skills they can learn – creating new opportunities for success in the digital era.

This statement from the Business Roundtable, an association of CEOs from America’s largest corporations, outlines why the private sector should commit to strengthening jobs. It can be useful for practitioners across fields to understand language and messaging that may resonate with many businesses.

This playbook from UpSkill America, an initiative of the Economic Opportunities Program, is designed to highlight examples of employers investing in upskilling strategies to support worker advancement and business competitiveness. This playbook has relevance for employers interested in adopting training and education strategies or for practitioners advising businesses to invest in their workers.