Regional Workforce Technical Assistance

Project Highlights

Business Engagement.

Getting businesses meaningfully involved — and keeping them involved — is harder than it sounds, and it’s at the center of almost every regional workforce challenge we see. Cross-agency approaches make sense. But they don’t last on goodwill alone. They need:

An actual industry strategy, not just a program;
Training institutions that can move fast; and
Dedicated staff, shared goals, and agreements that mean something.

Big Ideas, Small Steps.

Big ideas are easy to love and hard to land.

Getting people behind a vision is the easy part. Delivering on it is the challenge, especially when it depends on multiple partners, funders with different timelines, and communities that need to see results before they fully commit. The organizations that make big change stick are the ones that break it into pieces, bring others into the work early, and build structures that endure beyond any single leader or grant.

Sharing Findings.

Multiple documents highlight results and lessons learned. The reports are linked at the bottom of this page.

SPR is providing technical assistance to a regional economic and workforce initiative in California’s Central Valley. The regional initiative is a coalition of various nonprofits, government agencies, and higher education institutions including a community college and university.

SPR’s role is to provide time-intensive technical assistance to ensure backbone members are prepared for grant submissions, such as structuring and prioritizing fundable concepts and ideas, assist in developing a Logic Model or Theory of Change or long-term sustainability planning. Other areas of technical assistance may include identifying funding opportunities and assisting coalition partners in strengthening applications before submission.