Partnership & initiative development

• Prospecting partners for strategy development and project execution

• Develop steering committees and working groups

• Bringing together large and small stakeholder meetings of industry, agency, and community partners

• Leverage large national and regional network of partners and contacts in workforce and economic development

Team building and strategy development

• Assemble multi-stakeholder and cross functional teams

• Design agendas and meetings for strategic planning and project development

• Take projects from design phase, user and partner feedback, to implementation

Resource development

• Design training and engagement tools

• Design and disseminate toolkits for practice areas and information resources

• Work with marketing teams for collateral design and campaigns

• Web and data tools for practitioners

Grant and revenue development

• Identifying funding sources appropriate for partner and community needs

• Bringing partners together for proposal development

• Grant writing and project management for proposals

• Private service contract proposals

• Fee-for-service, cost-recovery program development

Quantitative analysis

• Community profiles - population, demographics, educational attainment

• Industry and cluster analysis - business specializations and tradeable sectors

• Occupation and skills profiles - alignment with training and education offerings (gap)

Qualitative analysis

• Survey research

• Executive and stakeholder interviews and focus groups

• Literature summaries and practice papers

• White papers and position papers

• Case studies