Please join us Friday, September 16th, for a discussion on evaluating the effectiveness of workforce development programs and building outcomes-driven organizations.
In February 2011, the Bay Area Workforce Funding Collaborative hosted a convening on evaluating the effectiveness of workforce development programs.
Participants expressed overwhelming interest in more opportunities to explore the challenges of evaluating workforce development programs. This day-long convening will delve deeper into these issues and provide an opportunity for workforce development providers and funders to explore how they can work together to build capacity to collect and use data.
The convening will address these topics among others:
- What constitutes “good” performance in workforce training programs?
- How can we expand definitions of success to capture more robust workforce development outcomes?
- What does it take to create an outcomes-driven organizational culture?
- How can funders and workforce development providers work together to foster accountability and promote learning in the workforce system?
The discussion will be led by Public/Private Ventures, the organizers of The Benchmarking Project: Putting Data To Work, an exciting national effort to identify meaningful outcome benchmarks for the workforce development field.
8:30 a.m. – Registration
9:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m. – Program
Breakfast and lunch provided.
RSVP by September 9, 2011, to Kolieka Seigle at kseigle@sff.org or 415.733.8540
Co-sponsored by The Bay Area Workforce Funding Collaborative, The San Francisco Foundation, Tipping Point Community, and REDF.