Final Numbers
Jobs Initiative sites enrolled more than 25,000 participants, placing more than 11,200 in jobs across 40-plus projects.
Launched in 1995, the Annie E. Casey Foundation’s Jobs Initiative aimed to boost employment options for young Americans living in low-income communities in six cities. This report looks at how the initiative’s participating sites approached hiring and retention inequities related to race and ethnicity. Readers will learn the successes and challenges of their efforts to address cultural competence and what strategies the sites developed to expand opportunities for job seekers and workers of color.
Unlike most workforce development efforts at the time, the Jobs Initiative acknowledged the many challenges that workers of color face, and it committed to doing something about them.