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Community Based Jobs: Creating Fertile Economic Gardens and Enabling Local Resident Entrepreneurs in Tough Times
Big Ideas for Job Creation ConferenceJune 16, 2011
Increasing economic opportunity and sustainable prosperity for people, companies, and communities
Helping states, regions, and communities reimagine policies and investments that support work and learning in the 21st century
Engaging in public policy research, development, and technical assistance in the areas of education, economic, and workforce development
CSW’s Mission & Work
Big Idea for Job Creation
Growing out of work CSW has been doing in communities around the country
Engaging at the nexus of economic, workforce, and community development
Documenting the emergence of this in Detroit – Food Systems and Building Upgrades
Comparing Detroit to a few other places
Analyzing against criteria (feasibility, replicability, scalability, sustainability)
Sustainable
Economic
Development
Natural Capital
Social Capital
Economic Capital
Underlying Principles:Sustainability & Equity
Responding to untapped local market development,
Building capacity of resident entrepreneurs and local businesses
Targeting sustainability-driven sectors and clusters where TBL wealth building can happen
Focusing on industries where startup and small-to-medium businesses can thrive
Paying attention to quality of jobs and who in the industry has access to them
Creating pathways for low-income low-skilled workers
Community Based Job Creation
Engaging Residents &Building Skills
• Organizing Communities to Drive Public Demand
• Targeting Emerging Sectors
• Employing Economic Gardening
Market Developmen
t
Industry Sector & Cluster
Development
Small Business
Development
Human Capital
Development
Integrated Strategies
Detroit: Food System
Emerging cluster of activity
Community interest and demand for alternatives
Desire to organize and build a sector or cluster partnership
Skills, credentials and agreements for workers
Set of economic gardening and enterprise development efforts
Alignment of public and private sector stakeholders
Detroit: Buildings
Emerging sector creating local jobs
Taking steps to educate and organize community demand
Adapting sector strategies to address demand and supply
Unusual level of public-private-nonprofit collaboration toward sustainable industry, jobs
Policies, Programs, Practices
Community Based
Organizations
Government (fed, state,
local)
Private-Sector
Labor Unions
Philanthropy
Stakeholder Roles
Making it Happen Enabling It – the policy piece
Building It – the market piece
Supporting It – the business services and capacity building piece
Supplying It – the workforce training piece
Sustaining It -- the systems building and scaling part
Getting Feedback?!
Jeannine LaPrad
Michael DiRamio