Training Program Costs and Community Colleges

Tags:Adult Basic Education, Community Colleges, Education Partnerships, Incentives and Student Success, Workforce Development, Young Adults

“The Price of Persistence: How Nonprofit-Community College Partnerships Manage and Blend Diverse Funding Streams” Courses to Employment, volume 2; Workforce Strategies Initiative at the Aspen Institute; February 2011.

Description: This study by the Aspen Institute examines the wide range of funding streams six different nonprofit-community college partnerships employ to provide training programs linked to credentials and employment for low-income individuals. It also delves into how those funding streams were shaped over time to sustain program objectives and how their individual funding environments affected their programmatic choices.  It includes partnership profiles, including the Automobile Career Pathways Project at Shoreline Community College in Seattle.

 

 
 

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