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Types of Client Projects
Building Talent for Minnesota's New Economy
We organized the Talent Project as a collaborative
between companies, public policy organizations and education entities
concerned about growing the state's economy. Based on consultations
with top business and educations leaders throughout the state,
the Project seeks to enhance the growth and quality of a talented
workforce that can operate in increasingly technologically sophisticated
workplaces. The Project will recommend and build support for a
few high-leverage reforms in Minnesota's science, math and technology
education in K-12 and higher education systems.
Twin Cities Project on Media and the Public
We created and managed this collaborative project
to enhance the quality of the commercial media's news content
and reduce the media-public "disconnect." Our work included building
a broad-based sponsoring coalition, a concept paper and organizing
goals, fund-raising, developing a public forum series, establishing
working relationships with local media outlets and generating
media coverage. Our recommendations for strategic actions by the
media and the public to enhance local news coverage led to the
articulation and publishing of news standards and practices by
several news organizations.
Rethinking Work in America
We created this public, private partnership
aimed at redefining the nature of work and the new contract between
employers and employees during a period of major corporate reorganization
and high workforce anxiety in the mid-1990s. The top leadership
of several Minnesota-based international companies and the University
of Minnesota sponsored and participated in community consultations
and large public forums involving national specialists and more
than 1,000 participants from business, education, government and
labor explored. Vigorous discussion of the forces causing change
and new employer/employee relationships led to the production
and wide circulation of a workbook on best practices for use by
employers throughout the state.
Hennepin Alliance for Learning
We are project consultants to this School-to-Work
Partnership that is seeking to transform a local, government-controlled,
volunteer organization into an independent entity dedicated to
creating and maintaining employer/school connections. We are developing
a marketing analysis and plan, a fundraising strategy and a plan
for maintaining relationships with other partnerships. In addition,
we are creating the new organizational structure and the search
process for the first executive director.
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