National Network of Sector Partners (NNSP)
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Headquarters Location: Oakland, CA
Founded: 1999
Mission: The National Network of Sector Partners (NNSP), an initiative of the Insight Center for Community Economic Development, promotes the use of sector initiatives and strategies that support them in order to improve employment and economic opportunities for low-income individuals, families, and communities, to strengthen industry sectors that are important to regional labor markets, and to increase regional economic vitality. Our goals are to: Expand the commitment of public and private resources to industry-specific workforce development; Achieve the enactment of supportive public policy; Raise awareness about the benefits of sector initiatives; Increase the quality, capacity, and number of sector initiatives; Provide information and resources to those working in the sector field.
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national, workforce development, sector initiatives, job quality, resource services, policy, advocacy, information services
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Leadership
Jack Mills.
Jack Mills joined the Insight Center in 2005 as the Senior Program Manager for Sector Programs and was promoted to Director of NNSP in 2006. NNSP, a program of the Insight Center, is a national membership organization and learning community for sector program leaders, policy-makers, funders, researchers, and supporters. Jack guides NNSP’s efforts to improve employment for low-income individuals and…
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Contact Info
E-Mail:
nnspinfo AT insightcced.org
Phone:
510-251-2600
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Address:
2201 Broadway Ste 815
Oakland, CA 94612, USA
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What is the National Network of Sector Partners?The National Network of Sector Partners (NNSP), an initiative of the Insight Center for Community Economic Development, is a nation-wide membership organization dedicated to promoting and increasing support for sector initiatives. Sector initiatives are regional, industry-focused approaches to workforce and economic development that improve access to good jobs and/or increase job quality in ways that strengthen an industry’s workforce. Their vision is that, as a result of investment in sector initiatives, regional economies will have good jobs and plentiful advancement opportunities, all people will have access to these jobs and opportunities, industry sectors important to those regions will provide them, and all communities will share in the resulting economic vitality. NNSP’s members include sector initiative leaders, policy makers, researchers, business, labor, funders, and supporters. They are guided by a national advisory committee composed of leaders and supporters of sector initiatives.(Read more at: http://www.insightcced.org/index.php?page=nnsp)
Expert Reviews of National Network of Sector Partners (NNSP)
Evidence of Impact Summary:
The National Network of Sector Partners is known for their efforts to help policymakers take a sector-based approach to workforce development. This has spread jobs to underserved communities, improved training, and yielded superior working conditions.See expert comments.
Organization Strengths Summary:
The group's leadership and staff receive the majority of praise as assets from expert respondents.See expert comments.
Areas for Improvement Summary:
Nearly all areas for improvement mentioned involved ways in which the organization can achieve a greater, broader impact. Specifically, program expansion, increased funding, and capacity building were cited.See expert comments.
Expert Comments: Evidence of Impact
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They have been a national leader in promoting a sector approach to workforce development. Through their Sector Academies, conferences, and technical assistance they have trained and developed a cadre of national leaders who are now running strong sector training programs. | ||
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They have brought increasing attention and capacity for sector-based workforce development. | ||
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Their technical assistance work around the development of sector initiatives is impressive. | ||
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This organization has helped to advance sector-focused workforce development programs and has really brought them to the forefront of workforce policy and practice. | ||
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Sector focused workforce development strategies have consistently shown strong results and an ability to meet the needs of both the supply and demand side of the labor market. They have been the national leaders in promoting these strategies, providing technical assistance to programs and service providers, and working for policy change. | ||
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They have promoted sector approaches to workforce development over many years. They have done more to grow sector work more than any other organization I know. | ||
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They have been instrumental in growing the field of sector based workforce programs, thus assisting thousands of disadvantaged people become self-sufficient. They also have been able to influence policy at both the federal and state level to allow for support of sectoral workforce development programs. | ||
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They have practically and concretely changed the way that states and regions organize their workforce approaches. The in-depth planning and mapping has resulted in targeted sector strategies that lead to increased training opportunities for under-served communities and ultimately, higher wages and improved career and economic mobility prospects. | ||
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This is a project of the Insight Center and acts as a "trade association" of sectoral initiatives. This organization is a crucial disseminator of good sector practice as well as a regional and national advocate and provider of direct technical assistance. | ||
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They have a knowledgeable staff who are nationally recognized experts on sector workforce training. They have excellent convening capacity and organize excellent conferences that bring together national leaders and practitioners from across a range of sectors. | ||
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They have strong and experienced staff and an ability to bring together diverse organizations. | ||
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NNSP has strong staff, a strong advisory committee, on going support from national foundations, and does strong advocacy work. | ||
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They have excellent staff. | ||
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Their ability to help change attitudes about the goals of workforce development is a strength. | ||
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Their leadership in field and their relationship to their host organization (Insight) which has a larger mission of connecting economic and workforce development and economic inclusion. | ||
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They have good leadership and connections to a range of sector initiatives - good scope. | ||
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They benefit from the leadership of Jack Mills. Jack has a strong vision for the future of sector initiatives and solid understanding of the field. They also draw strength from connections to the field. Regular newsletters, webinars, and audio-updates allow staff to keep in touch with the reality of the field. | ||
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They start with a wide angle lens, then focus in on specific solutions. In others words, they analyze the entire landscape of resources and engaged all those stakeholders that can and are interested in contributing to specific programmatic and policy solutions. They do not focus on only "the biggest game in town" but consider the large stakeholders in the context of multiple partners and resources. They try to ensure that their network is very diverse and inclusive. | ||
Expert Comments: Areas for Improvement
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Although the staff they have is very good, it is under-staffed and sometimes have not had the bandwidth to do good follow-up. | ||
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They need help in building a bigger bench team for the field. | ||
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I'd like to see them provide more technical assistance to states that are struggling to develop sector strategies. While being 'in the field' requires a huge commitment of staff resources, the benefits are great. | ||
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With increased resources they might, in turn, make their own tools and resources more easily and broadly accessible for use. They can be a little more deliberate about bringing in new, innovative practitioners and approaches. They are progressive but workforce development is a very fluid field and they might think forward. | ||
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They need more of a DC presence and could develop more regional field staff to better keep up with technical assistance demands from practitioners. | ||
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The demand for their services is greater than the available staff and funding. Additional fundraising would improve the organization. | ||
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It would be great if NNSP could hold an annual meeting for its membership. Also I would encourage them to continue their recent focus on job quality. | ||
Leadership
Jack Mills
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