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SkillWorks is a nationally recognized workforce development funder collaborative, launched by the Boston Foundation and City of Boston to improve workforce development in Boston and across Massachusetts.
11/29/2025
Join us LIVE on November 18, 2025, at 12:00 pm ET for the next episode of State of Our Workforce: Unpacked!
We’ll be joined by Andre Green from our Boston network partner, SkillWorks, to explore how embedding ESOL (English for Speakers of Other Languages) into local workforce systems is creating more equitable outcomes for immigrant workers.
Vocational ESOL is the key to unlocking economic opportunity and connecting more people to jobs as well as filling workforce gaps for employers. We need a playbook to ensure vocational ESOL is available to all who need it, and understand current gaps in vocational ESOL services so that we can directly invest in strengthening pathways to employment. That is why I filed S1326 “An Act to promote economic mobility through ESOL" to help realize the full potential of the economic and social benefits vocational ESOL programs bring to the Commonwealth. Thank you to SkillWorks and The Boston Foundation for inviting me to share an overview of the bill at the English for a Strong Economy (ESE) Coalition meeting this week and for their partnership in bolstering vocational ESOL in Massachusetts.
10/23/2023
Earlier this month Andre Green joined the SPARK FM - Online Saucy and Friends Morning Show to discuss the monthly jobs report and the overall employment outlook for ! Building relationships, learning new skills, and making connections that matter. Thanks to the Spark FM team for the great convo!
09/22/2023
SkillWorks' Executive Director, Andre Green had the honor this week to join the U.S. Department of Labor Regional Convening in Philadelphia focused on Expanding Access to Quality and Ensuring Job . Andre moderated a fascinating panel with Teresa Collins from District 1199c Training and Upgrading Fund and Derrick Henry from Excelcare at Egg Harbor discussing race, s*x, job quality, training, challenges, needs and opportunities in the Care Economy.
09/05/2023
SkillWorks is proud to have supported new research with Eastern Bank from Jerry Rubin, Visiting Fellow at the Harvard University Project on Workforce, which reveals a staggering statistic on “untapped talent” in Massachusetts: over 400,000 individuals are either
🌟 Unemployed
🌟 Discouraged job seekers
🌟 Working fewer hours than they can or desire to work, or
🌟 Not working up to their skill capacity or ambitions
Addressing the Labor Shortage in Massachusetts: Engaging Untapped Talent
Addressing the Labor Shortage in Massachusetts: Engaging Untapped Talent Jerry Rubin and Ayanna Warrington September 2023 Preview or download the PDF version of this report: Contents Executive Summary Introduction Social and Demographic Trends in Massachusetts Untapped Talent Addressing The Barriers...
10/27/2021
12th Annual Massachusetts Jobs & Workforce Summit: Rapid Reemployment for a Just and Equitable Recovery - Download the 2021 program book here
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SkillWorks is a workforce development intermediary and funder collaborative launched by a group of public and private funders in 2003 to improve the workforce system’s effectiveness and efficiency, resulting in significantly improved economic outcomes for job and skill seekers, with a priority focus on those in greater Boston who are low-income and low-skilled.
As a nationally recognized workforce funder collaborative, we have spent more than a decade developing evidence-based strategies for training and employment that have linked thousands of people and hundreds of employers to help close the persistent skills and opportunity gaps in our region.
SkillWorks has been a consummate mainstay for the past 14 years, acting as an innovative funder and partner while influencing the policies and practices of dozens of organizations in the region. As the pendulum of the economy has made dramatic shifts from periods of high unemployment to today’s tight labor market, SkillWorks has applied its practice, knowledge and experience to respond as a nimble tool in support of our region’s workforce needs. As we consider our role for the four years ahead, we will continue to sustain our values and act as a dynamic partner to aligned funders, intermediaries, organizations and employers, innovative platform to link talent to employers, responsive driver for diversity and inclusion, and strategic shaper of policy and practice.
SkillWorks' vision is to help to make Boston a place where every resident has an opportunity to thrive by making a good living and where employers have access to a diverse, well-trained, and qualified talent pool. We support that vision with a set of values that we believe shape and sustain our work. -We are employer centric in order to ensure we are a nimble tool for employers. -We believe diversity and inclusion are critical to business success. -We believe a “good job” means wages at or greater than a living wage, access to benefits, strong supervisor training for frontline workers to support retention and advancement, access to professional development and training for employees, and opportunity to advance in a career. -We support coaching to help jobseekers persist and complete training and retain good jobs. -We believe the first job is not the last, and individuals need greater opportunity to advance into higher skilled, better paying jobs through incumbent worker investment. -We support career pathways to good jobs and family sustaining wages -We create a culture of high expectations among all stakeholders. -We believe work readiness and career navigation should be integrated early and often in training and education to better prepare the workforce to meet employer needs.
Learn more about SkillWorks at www.skill-works.org and download our new 4-year strategic plan here: Download
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