Apprenticeship Programs:
These apprenticeship programs are connected to specific employers and employment sectors and link participants to good jobs and support advancement along a career pathway.
Barrier Removal Providers:
Organizations that work collaboratively to stabilize individuals and build their capacity to navigate changing circumstances and promote readiness for employment, job retention and goal attainment using a worker-centered approach.
Economic Development Providers:
Business attraction and job creation organizations and initiatives that support equitable representation in development and revitalization projects and that prioritize the needs and welfare of communities.
Employment Equity Advocacy Organizations:
Organizations, grass-roots and faith-based groups that center worker voice, work collaboratively, and utilize research and data to help influence policy and advocate for equitable access, compensation, and opportunity for advancement by Detroiters.
Entrepreneurship Support Providers:
Agencies that coordinate and deliver equity-driven entrepreneurship training and support to all populations within Detroit interested in developing businesses, worker-owned cooperatives and other corporate structures, aimed at creating sustainable families.
Equity-Centered Employers:
Employers in the Detroit region that collaborate with other in the ecosystem to actively address employment inequities through inclusive hiring practices, offering employees family sustaining wages, and offering employees opportunities to build skills, gain credentials and education, and grow in their careers.
Equity Focused Systems Change Orgainzations and Initiatives:
Organizations and initiatives that lead work to address structural and systemic barriers that contribute to employment and economic inequities. These efforts seek to change how organizations work together, disseminate information to impact policy, and implement initiatives that create greater opportunity and improved outcomes for Detroiters.
Equity Funders/Investors:
Equity Funders/Investors: Funder commit to invest in employment equity over time, that create reports and resources, and that support community responses to address disparities. These funders use data and community voice to inform strategy, and co-create solutions. The funders see themselves as change agents, facilitators, and catalysts.
Literacy/Education and other Skill Building Providers:
Skill-building initiatives that address knowledge gaps and educational inequities and that partner with community groups to reach diverse populations with tailored solutions that meets them where they are at and equip them with the skills needed to progress toward their goals.
Workforce Development Providers:
Michigan Works funded providers and other community-based Workforce development agencies that are cooperative, innovative, and client-centered practitioners that are strengths-based in their approach to promoting employment, entrepreneurship, and target traditionally excluded groups.
Youth Resources:
Organizations and initiatives that focus on a youth population and implement customized strategies that respond to the unique characteristics and career planning and employment needs of different generations of youth.