The document discusses how industry partnerships can support job creation through state-level policies and funding that establish agreements between workforce development organizations, employers, and the state to provide training for low-income individuals and ensure they are hired by employers in return for funding. As an example, it outlines Oregon's Clean Energy Works Oregon program which ties public financing for energy efficiency retrofits to job quality standards that prioritize hiring low-income individuals and require hiring through sector initiatives.

1. How Industry Partnerships
Can Support Job Creation
Presented by
Jack Mills, Director
National Network of Sector Partners
www.nnsp.org
jmills@insightcced.org

2. Who We Are
• Insight Center for Community Economic Development
– National, nonprofit, research and consulting organization formed in 1969.
– Mission: Helping people and communities become, and remain, economically
secure.
– Strategy: increase income and assets, and improve equity regarding both
• National Network of Sector Partners
– Initiative of the Insight Center for Community Economic Development.
– Membership organization of sector initiatives & supporters, formed in 1999.
– Mission: to encourage the use and effectiveness of sector initiatives as
valuable tools for enhancing employment and economic development
opportunities for low-income individuals, industries, and communities.
– Strategy: Increase access to good jobs/career paths and reduce employment
disparities, improve job quality, and assist employers to create good jobs

3. Why Target Job Creation?
• Deep recession/feeble recovery
• High long-term unemployment and under-
employment - especially for people with low
incomes
• Improve connection of state policy that assists
with job creation and job placement

4. What’s the Design?
State level -- Policy & Funding
Organization to manage funding that’s committed
to good jobs for people who don’t‘ have them
Agreements with Agreements with Monitoring
workforce employers to hire &
development individuals who Evaluation
organizations to receive training –
partner on effective, especially low-
industry-responsive income individuals
skill and career path in return for funding
development

5. Example: Oregon
• OR: state sector strategy provides basis for Clean
Energy Works Oregon (CEWO) to require use of
public financing for energy-efficiency retrofits to
comply with CEWO’s High Road Standards
– Significant impact – e.g., goal is to create 1,300 jobs
(largest effort in US)

6. Oregon: High Road Standards
• Energy Efficiency and Sustainable Technologies Act
supports CEWO, establishes financing structure, sets
job quality standards, & requires local hiring
– CEWO ties use of public financing to its High Road
Standards – they have job quality requirements,
prioritize hiring of individuals with low incomes and
others who are disadvantaged, and require hiring from
sector initiatives
http://www.insightcced.org/uploads/nnsp/CEWO_High_Road_Standards.pdf

7. Resources
National Network of Sector Partners
– Training and assistance
– Industry-specific peer learning
– Policy development assistance
– Resources and materials
– Etc.
To find our more about services NNSP provides
and/or become an NNSP member
go to www.nnsp.org