A Place I’ll Remember – February 2025
A Place I'll Remember This time, I’ll remember Birmingham not because of a public sector workforce initiative, or even a public-private one. Moxi is a private company created by Cori Fain-Forrest offering childcare on demand. This unique...
Property Guardianship
Kate McEnroe On Demand One of the most recent entries into the Workforce Participation Resource Catalogue at Kate McEnroe On Demand is in the Housing Section. I’ve been reading recently about Property Guardianship programs in the UK....
The Distillery – A Book for You
The Distillery I can’t lie, I’ve mostly been reading what I call “airport fiction” lately – those series of novels that are the literary equivalent of Law and Order or CSI. But I did drop them for this book –...
A Place I’ll Remember – January 2025
A Place I'll Remember Global Detroit is not a new organization, but its mission and strategies are worth a look to any community that understands that attracting, integrating, and supporting immigrants will strengthen local economies and...
Look for the Lights
Uncategorized Greetings from Milan, Dublin, Seville. I’ve always taken a great deal of pleasure in sending out lots and lots of handwritten holiday cards, but that’s an especially heavier lift this year as we continue...
A Place I’ll Remember – December 2024
A Place I'll Remember Rutherford County, TN is all in on the Amazing Shake program developed by the Ron Clark Academy to cultivate interpersonal and professional communications skills early in students’ lives. Kids in grades 4-8 are...
Sitting down on the job
Workforce An observation from day-to-day life during my recent month in Ireland was the practice of supermarket cashiers sitting down on the job. Not as a special accommodation. A small thing, perhaps, but it sent me down a...
500 Links and Growing
Kate McEnroe On Demand The Workforce Participation Resource Catalogue has grown to over 500 links, and I’m adding more pretty much every week. Why wouldn’t I? Every week I come across examples of how economic developers across...