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The Workforce Readiness Pipeline: Education and Business Partnerships
Ready by 21 is a strategy that helps
communities improve the odds that all youth will be ready for work, college and
life. Business leaders understand that all young people need to grow up healthy
and strong, equipped to excel in school today and in the jobs of tomorrow. American business competitiveness and economic prosperity depends on a skilled
and prepared workforce.
We invite you
to learn about how
partnerships between local businesses, education, and local
government can provide corporate leaders
with the ability to influence skill development for the future workforce. One of the panel discussions at our upcoming
9th annual meeting will feature representatives from the Louisville, Kentucky, business community and the Mayor's
Office, in which they will highlight
the city's successful private/public partnerships. Louisville, Kentucky, is a Ready by 21 community.
The panelists will discuss
the benefits of partnership, why they came together, the variety of ways they partner
and their goals for sustaining these partnerships and achieving results. Melissa Hough, Corporate Voices' Vice
President for Workforce Readiness, Business & Community Engagement, will
moderate this discussion.
Register for the annual meeting today!
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Register for the Best Companies for Hourly Workers Forum and Luncheon, May 4th!
 In 2008, some 58 percent of all wage and salary workers in America were paid at hourly rates, according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Working Mother launched the first ever Best Companies for Hourly Workers this year,
and Corporate Voices was proud to serve as the knowledge partner for this
project. On May 4, 2010, in Washington DC, Working Mother will host a conference
to highlight the innovative programs for hourly workers throughout the American
business community, and recognize the winners for Best Companies for Hourly
Workers in America.
Click here, to register and to access a complete agenda.
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Growing New
Jobs/Growing the Workforce-- What Will It
Take? Corporate Voices Annual Partners'
Meeting-- May 5-6, 2010
 Corporate
Voices' Annual Partners Meeting is quickly approaching! This year's theme will
be: Growing New Jobs/Growing the
Workforce-- What Will It Take? and will feature discussion among
leaders from the private sector and high-level speakers from the Obama
Administration. Speakers will discuss the urgent issues of economic recovery and
workforce investment.
The annual meeting will be held at
the Mayflower Hotel in Washington, D.C. If you have not yet registered, please click here.We would also like to
invite you to Corporate Voices'
Open House following the annual
meeting. Please join us for a tour of our new offices on Thursday, May 6 at 1pm,
where we will have an informal discussion among Corporate Voices staff over
lunch.
We would also like
to recognize our corporate partners that will sponsor this year's meeting. They
are: Allstate Insurance
Company Abbott
Laboratories Baxter International
Inc. CVS
Caremark
H.E. Butt Grocery Company
Marriott International, Inc.
MassMutual Financial Group
Philip Morris USA, an Altria Company
We depend on
sponsors to make this year's meeting a success. If you are interested in
becoming a sponsor, please contact Jennifer Weber at: jweber@corporatevoices.org. |
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