Workforce Development
We work with local leaders to tackle workforce challenges and create pathways for high-quality jobs – those that provide family-sustaining wages, benefits, and opportunities for economic mobility. Through our national partnerships and targeted place-based initiatives, we work to align training programs with infrastructure projects and employers with a high demand for workers, and to connect underserved communities with job training, apprenticeships and career opportunities, while also working to remove barriers like childcare and transportation, which impede people's ability to learn and work.
Current Initiatives
Impact Stories
"Accelerator for America was instrumental in helping to connect federal funding opportunities to our city leadership and being a bridge and a connector to, not only those resources, but really helping to provide the technical assistance that leveraged the talent we have. That was tangible dollars that went right into our community, and we've seen a significant difference because of them."
“This partnership with Accelerator for America, made possible through the generous support of the Kauffman Foundation, marks a transformative moment for Heartland Women in Trades. With their support, we are not only building our organization’s capacity, including hiring our first executive director, but also tackling the systemic barriers that are keeping many women from thriving in the construction trades.”
“Accelerator for America provides amazing insights from across the country. If you want to be able to find one place and get a perspective across the country, from big cities to small cities, to cities struggling with housing issues, with workforce development issues: Accelerator for America is the place to do it.”
