Our Tools
Job Design Framework
This framework offers components that employers can bring together to create the right quality job for their workforce.
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Toolbox for the Systems Change Mindset
This resource has a framework, practical tools, examples, and information to help you apply systems thinking to complex workforce problems.
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Designing a Human-Centered Workplace
This guide introduces a method for centering workers in job design. It will help you approach job design as a process undertaken with employees, not just for them.
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Guide to Employee Financial Wellness
This guide helps employers get started on finding the right financial wellness programs for their workforce.
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Advancing Workforce Equity: A Guide for Stakeholders
This guide lays out a process for engaging community stakeholders to identify strategies to address complex workforce equity problems.
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CareerSTAT Resource Center
This resource center will introduce healthcare employers to best practices for investing in frontline workers and offer resources to go deeper and tools to move forward.
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Workforce Equity Dashboard
This dashboard provides the workforce collaboratives in our network with reliable, uniform data on population- and community-level indicators relevant to our work.
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Toolkit for Developing High-Performing Industry Partnerships
This toolkit guides workforce practitioners through characteristics that are necessary to develop, grow, and improve industry partnerships.
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A Trauma-Informed Approach to Workforce
This introductory guide is designed to help employers and workforce professionals understand toxic stress and the effects of trauma on individuals in the workplace.
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Quick Guides for Collaboratives
These guides offer collaborative directors tips, guidance, and recommendations for addressing foundational and universal challenges facing funder collaboratives in the National Fund network.
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Change Systems: Frequently Asked Questions
This resource provides workforce practitioners insight into how the National Fund approaches systems change.
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Job Quality Competencies: Guide for Workforce Development Practitioners
This guide highlights the competencies that workforce practitioners need in order to embark on job quality work with employers.
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Characteristics of a High-Performing Regional Collaborative
This document defines and characterizes the most effective elements of high-performing regional collaboratives.
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Apprenticeship Readiness Checklist
Employers should be able to answer the questions in this questionnaire in order to successfully implement an apprenticeship program.
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Sustainability Guide for Regional Collaboratives
This guide is intended to provide workforce collaborative leaders and partners with a framework for thinking about what they must do to sustain their work
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