Workforce Fellows Resources

June 2022 Convening

• Event Recap
• Team Accomplishments (Slides)

March 2022 Convening

• Harvard Kennedy School: Government Performance Lab
  • RFP Guidebook on Results-Driven Requests for Proposals
  • Application Prompt Activity
  • “Extreme Procurement Makeover” Slides
• DOL CLEAR (Factsheet and Slides)
• Job Quality Playbook (Slides)
• Culture Change Resources
  • Tennessee Office of Evidence & Impact
    • Website
  • Minnesota Office of Management and Budget
    • Minnesota Inventory
    • Demographic analysis of evidence
  • North Carolina Office of Strategic Partnerships
    • Informal 2-pager
    • Monthly Connect Series Recordings
    • Past Highlights

November 2021 Convening

• Team Updates for Evidence Frameworks and Outcomes-based Contracting
• AORTA: Just Transitions & Job Quality
  • Just Transitions Framework
  • The Sustainable Economies Law Center
  • Democratic Management Guidebook 
  • Impacts of Economic Democracy
  • Economy Jamboard
  • Economy Word Cloud
• Department of Labor Resources
  • Gallup: Great Jobs Report
  • MIT: Worker Voice In America
  • Job Quality Notes

May 2021 Convening

• Building Worker Power
  • San Diego Workforce Partnership
    • Job Quality
    • How to Build Job Quality into Your Workforce Development Approach
    • Contract and Procurement Language
    • Basic household income calculator
    • The Need for Stable Scheduling in San Diego’s Service Sectors
    • Training Program Helps San Diegans Launch Meaningful Careers in Region’s Priority Sector
  • High Roads Kitchen
    • Amidst pandemic, San Diego restaurants feed frontline workers and commit to job quality
  • Project Equity
    • The Case for Employee Ownership
  • The Aspen Institute
    • Jobs Quality Tools Library
  • White House
    • FACT SHEET: Executive Order Establishing the White House Task Force on Worker Organizing and Empowerment
• Evidence-Based Providers
  • Once Evidence Skeptics, Now Evidence Champions: The Nevada Department of Education Seized the Opportunity presented by the Every Student Succeeds Act to Prioritize Evidence to Improve Nevada Public Schools
  • The Evidence Provisions of the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA)
• Working Metrics
  • RFA Fellowship Pilot Overview

October 2020 Convening

• October 7
  • Cross-cohort Discussion: COVID response, Outcomes and performance -based contracts, Racial equity
    • Mural Board Notes
• October 8
  • Government Performance Lab: Active Contract Management
    • ACM page on GPL website which includes links to case studies, publications and resources
    • Youtube video of how Rhode Island’s Real Jobs program is using ACM to connect job seekers to employment
    • ACM policy brief
    • Six tools for implementing ACM — implementation guide for folks trying to get started
    • Data-driven management for agency operations policy brief (i.e., applying ACM techniques to internal government ops)
• October 14
  • AORTA: Racial Equity in Workforce
    • White Supremacy Culture
    • Recognizing Microaggressions and the Messages They Send
    • Continuum on Becoming a Transformative Anti-Oppression Organization
    • Understanding and Addressing Tokenization
    • Infiltration: How the Values of Oppressive Systems Tend to Arise in Organizations
    • Approaches to Power Inequity Within Organizations
  • Working Metrics: Enabling Workforce Agencies to Measure Job Quality & Job Equality
    • Cincinnati Regional Chamber: Workforce Innovation Center
    • Mural Board Notes
• October 15
  • Team Notes: Mural Boards

March 2020 Convening

• March 5-6, 2020
  • Agenda
  • Slide Deck
  • Convening Notes
  • The Intersection of Equity & Evidence
    • AORTA Webinar Recording; Webinar Slide Deck
    • Pre-work: Sea Change Video; News Beat Podcast episode: “Separate and Unequal”
    • Anti-Oppression Definitions
    • Follow-Up Resources: King County Equity and Social Justice Strategic Plan; and A Design for Workforce Equity: Workforce Redesign for Quality Training and Employment, by Livia Lam
  • Results Driven Contracting, Harvard Government Performance Lab: Pre-work; Slide Deck
  • Evidence of Effectiveness in Grantmaking: CNCS Case Study, Slide Deck
  • Peer Consulting Template

Fellow Highlights

• California
  • San Diego Workforce Partnership – Overview of Pay for Performance Contract: WIOA Youth – Justice Involved
  • San Diego Workforce Partnership – Training Program Contract 
  • San Diego Workforce Partnership – Contract and Procurement Language
• Pennsylvania
  • Pennsylvania Workforce Development Board Recommendation to Governor Wolf
• Texas
  • Texas Workforce Commission Evidence Based Grantmaking

News

• Lessons Learned from the CARES Act: Rethinking Support for America’s Workforce
• Improving Outcomes for Workers by Expanding Pay-for-Performance Contracts and Grants
• Moving Evidence Into Action: Building and Using Evidence in the Workforce Development System
• Emphasizing Evidence to Support Youth in Texas’ Workforce System
• Smart Data and Smart Workforce Development Lead to Better Outcomes
• Letting Evidence Lead the Way in Pennsylvania’s Workforce System
• Driving Outcomes with Data & Evidence in Northern Virginia — A Conversation with RFA Workforce Fellow Seema Jain
• Emphasizing Evidence: Strengthening Texas Grantmaking

Learning Agendas

• Cohort I – Learning Agenda Template

Webinars

• Introductory Webinar Recording
  • Introductory Webinar Slide Deck
• RFA Workforce Advisory Group Webinar Recording
  • Workforce Advisory Group Webinar Slide Deck
• Common Questions & Challenges Recording
  • Common Questions & Challenges Notes
• Third Sector Recording
  • Third Sector Slide Deck

Resources

• Federal Standard Examples of Local/State Capacity Building
• TEGL: Expectations for States Implementing the Reemployment Service and Eligibility Assessment (RESEA) Program Requirements for Conducting Evaluations and Building Program Evidence
• Summary of WIOA Pay for Performance TEGL
• Performance-Based Contracts in WIOA
• Working Metrics: RFA Fellowship Pilot Overview
• Tennessee Office of Evidence and Impact

RFA Summit – October 2019

• Agenda
• Design Dash
• Speed Meeting Partner Organizations
• JPAL – Using Administrative Data for Randomized Evaluations
• JPAL – Implementing Randomized Evaluations in Government: Lessons from the State and Local Innovation Initiative
• JPAL – Partnerships through J-PAL North America’s State and Local Innovation Initiative
  Social Finance and PFS Primer
• Virginia Hamilton – Human Centered Design Presentation

RFA Resources

• Moneyball for Workforce Development
  • Policy Recommendations
• 7 Ways to Improve Workforce Outcomes Using Evidence: 2019 Policy Roadmap for State and Local Officials
• RFA Evidence in Workforce Lab
• RFA State and Local Workforce Fellows