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The New York City Employment and Training Coalition (NYCETC) is an association of workforce development practitioners--community based organizations, community colleges and union affiliated training programs--committed to providing high quality education, training, and employment services to unemployed and underemployed New Yorkers. To that end, the Coalition provides staff development, research and technical assistance to member organizations and advocates for workforce development policies that expand public investment in our workforce.
The New York City Employment and Training Coalition was formed in 1997 to promote effective employment and training practices, and to share our experience about "best practices" with state and local workforce development policymakers. The Coalition is the only organization of its kind in New York, and is one of only a handful of similar organizations nationally. The Coalition was staffed primarily by volunteers until the spring of 2001, when a full-time professional staff was hired. A permanent New York City office opened in December 2001. The Coalition is a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization and an incubator project of the Fund for the City of New York.
Click here to read our Three Year Strategic Plan (Oct. 06-Sept. 09). Funded by the New York Community Trust and Altman Foundation, the plan defines the Coalition's mission as ensuring the opportunity for, and availability of, quality workforce development services for all New Yorkers, and as excelling at linking our members to the resources that build their capacity to provide quality services.
Some of our accomplishments include:
- Successfully advocating for $5 million in the State budget for TANF surplus funded training and employment programs for welfare recipients;
- Creating the Workforce Professionals Training Institute, a model for training workforce practitioners that is the first of its kind in the nation;
- Hosting a series of public policy breakfast forums for workforce development executives with top City, State and federal government officials;
- Sponsoring an employer roundtable series attended by 1,800 Coalition members, and City and State agency staff, with representatives of key industry sectors to explore their employment trends and skill requirements;
- Conducting other workshops and conferences that attracted more than 2,000 training provider staff, employers, unions and government officials on such topics as preparing for anticipated changes in state and federal workforce policies that will affect New York City; working with individuals with severe barriers to employment; and helping clients utilize transitional benefits such as child care and work supports such as the earned income tax credit;
- Securing incorporation of Coalition recommendations in the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee bill reauthorizing the Workforce Investment Act (WIA);
- Regularly testifying before the New York City Council on employment and training, economic development and procurement reform issues;
- Doubling our dues-paying membership;
- Developing a quarterly publication, NYC Workforce Watch, and monthly workforce development updates, that are now "must" reading for the field, as well as a website that attracts more than 14,000 visitors monthly; and
- Being featured in U.S. News & World Report, The New York Times, New York Newsday, The Christian Science Monitor, The New York Observer, The New York Sun, Employment & Training Reporter and Channel 7 News on workforce development issues.
Coalition activities are made possible in part by generous financial and in-kind support from:
Altman Foundation
Lily Auchincloss Foundation
Liz Claiborne Foundation
Clark Foundation
Robert Sterling Clark Foundation
Ira W. DeCamp Foundation
Deutsche Bank Americas Foundation
Fund for the City of New York
Bernard F. & Alva B. Gimbel Foundation
Helena Rubinstein Foundation
Hyde and Watson Foundation
IBM Corporate Community Relations
John Merck Fund
JP Morgan Chase Foundation
New York City Council
New York Community Trust
New York Foundation
New York State Department of Labor
Rockefeller Foundation
Scherman Foundation
United Way of New York City
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