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The State of Sector Policy
What States Have Achieved and Learned
Webinar
Monday, July 23, 2007
1:30 – 3:00 pm Eastern
10:30 - 12:00 am Pacific
A project of the
National Economic Development and Law Center
Today’s Agenda
• Using Sector Strategies as a Policy Lever and Not Just a
Program
Presenter:
Respondent:
Martin Simon, NGA
Jack Litzenberg, Mott Foundation
• Optimizing Use of Funding for Sector Initiatives
Presenter:
Respondent:
Jack Mills, NNSP
Maureen Conway, Aspen Institute
• Aligning State Sector Strategies with Regional
Development Strategies
Presenter:
Respondent:
Larry Good, CSW
Gay Gilbert, U.S. Department of Labor
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National Economic Development and Law Center
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Characteristics of Sector Initiatives
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Address the needs of employers by focusing intensively on the
workforce needs of a specific industry sector over a sustained period of
period, often concentrating on a specific occupation or set of occupations
within that industry;
Address the needs of workers by creating formal career paths to good
jobs, reducing barriers to employment, and sustaining or increasing middle
class jobs;
Bolster regional economic competitiveness by engaging economic
development experts in workforce issues and aligning education,
economic, and workforce development planning;
Engage a broader array of key stakeholders through partnerships
organized by workforce intermediaries; and
Promote systemic change that achieves ongoing benefits for the
industry, workers, and community.
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National Economic Development and Law Center
Sector Strategies Strengthen the Way
States Think and Act On…
• Competitiveness and innovation of industries
and workers
• Advancement of low-income workers and
sustainability and growth of middle-class jobs
• Leveraging and aligning resources and
strategies
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National Economic Development and Law Center
About Our Project
Accelerating State Adoption of Sector Strategies
• Partnership between National Governors Association Center for
Best Practices, National Network of Sector Partners, and
Corporation for a Skilled Workforce
• Roundtable for States in early 2006 (75 participants from 33 states)
• Three tracks:
– Learning Network of 6 states: AR, IL, MA, MI, PA, and WA
– Policy Academy of 5 states: GA, MN, NC, OK, OR
– Knowledge Exchange: Webinar series, sectorstrategies.org, Issue
Brief at http://www.nga.org/Files/pdf/06STATESECREG.PDF
• Funded by Charles Stewart Mott Foundation and the Ford
Foundation
A project of the
National Economic Development and Law Center
Using Sector Strategies as a Policy Lever
Not Just a Program
Presenter:
Martin Simon, NGA
Respondent:
Jack Litzenberg, Mott Foundation
A project of the
National Economic Development and Law Center
Getting to Scale – Policy Challenges
• Changing the focus from a single business to an
industry
• Balancing state and regional decision making roles
• Moving from pilots and programs to scale
• Developing sustainable funding policies
• Aligning key stakeholder missions, priorities, and
resources
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Building a Policy Framework
• Optimize Gubernatorial leadership
• Share information and information systems to
identify regional assets, gaps, and challenges
• Coordinate action to address cross-system
challenges
• Align investments strategically across
programs/systems to sustain efforts
• Integrate performance information systems to
evaluate results
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Showing Results – An Evaluation Framework
• Measuring Impact on Workers
• Measuring Value to Employers
• Measuring Quality and Effectiveness of
Partnerships
• Measuring System Change
• Measuring Benefits to the Community
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National Economic Development and Law Center
Optimizing Use of Funding for Sector
Initiatives
Presenter:
Jack Mills, NNSP
Respondent:
Maureen Conway, Aspen Institute
A project of the
National Economic Development and Law Center
Developing, Operating, and Sustaining
Sector Initiatives
• Strategy: Competitive grants that leverage
funding from other sources
• Multi-year funding
• Uses:
– Research, partner involvement, and design
– Services to industry and workers
– Systems change
• Example: Pennsylvania
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Using Sector Initiatives to Inform
Policy Development
• Strategy: Target an industry
– Fund development/implementation of regional
sector initiatives to inform development of state
strategy
– Use stakeholder perspectives
– Change policy and funding to support sector
initiatives in multiple industries
• Example: North Carolina
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Institutionalizing a State Sector
Strategy
• Strategy: develop shared mission
• Build interagency approach to coordinate
financing and capacity
– Target industry and worker needs – especially to
support economic development and increase lowwage/low skill workers’ incomes
– Redeploy skill development resources and
augment them; also other resources
• Example: Washington
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Aligning State Sector Strategies with
Regional Development Strategies
Presenter:
Larry Good, CSW
Respondent:
Gay Gilbert, U.S. DOL
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National Economic Development and Law Center
Why Regions are Important
• Economic and workforce activity is localized
• Artificial boundaries are not important to
employers, workers, and job seekers
• Laboratories for innovation and
transformation
• Examples of State - Regional Activity
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National Economic Development and Law Center
Why State Sector Strategies
Go Regional
Easier for:
• Alignment of Resources and Strategies
• Market Segmentation
• Market Penetration
• Rural and Urban Strategies
• Innovation
• Re-Imagining People, Firms, and Communities
Examples of State-Regional Activity
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How Sectors Align with Other Regional
Strategies
• WIRED
• Clusters and Sectors
• Workforce Development and….
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Economic Development
Community Development
Education and Training at all levels
Human Services
• Examples of State-Regional Activity
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National Economic Development and Law Center