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Build the Infrastructure That Moves Cities and Regions Forward
JobsFirst provides communities with a proven way to build aligned systems: clear goals, shared tools, and measurable progress for young adults and their communities.
JobsFirst Local Drivers (local workforce intermediaries) are designing and scaling solutions that align training, hiring, and advancement across cities and regions. These innovations in the field connect employer demand to young adult talent: building pipelines that strengthen as the systems around them strengthen.
JobsFirst Local Drivers are incubating education innovations in the field that link academics, advising, and work-based experiences into coherent paths for students. What works in one city informs what gets built in the next. Learning feels connected to career opportunities because the systems behind it are designed to connect.
JobsFirst Local Drivers are building community innovations in the field that make opportunity visible, trusted, and reachable close to home. Missing infrastructure gets replaced with coordinated, place-based solutions designed with and for the communities they serve.
Every Local Driver generates practitioner-driven insight about what coordination structures hold and which solutions scale. JobsFirst captures that learning and shares it across every site. Innovations in the field that take hold in one city build the foundation for what gets designed next.
JobsFirst partners with cities and regions ready to build aligned systems. Whether you are an investor, employer, educator, or community organization, there is a clear entry point. Start a conversation and we will connect you to the Local Driver advancing innovations in the field in your region.