Initiative Investment
Casey’s Jobs Initiative invested $30 million in six cities to help disadvantaged, low-skilled workers secure jobs and earn family-supporting wages.
This report focuses on six sites invested in workforce development as part of the Annie E. Casey Foundation’s Jobs Initiative. Readers will learn about the cultural competence issues that arose in these sites and the tools and strategies developed in response. This publication is a sequel to the Foundation’s Taking the Initiative on Jobs and Race report, released in 2001.
This report shares six lessons that Jobs Initiative sites learned about cultivating cultural competence in the workplace. Tops on the list? Launch a dialogue about race and work. This critical first step enabled sites to explicitly address the cultural competence challenges they faced.
