This is a space dedicated to sharing updates from the Green Economy, Healthcare, and Tech Networks; reporting on goals and insights, relaying program openings and recruitment opportunities, and fostering cross-network collaboration.
Cross-sector convergence in action! Interested in learning more about Network Co-Chair roles? Reach out to mdarby@jobsfirstnyc.org
Connecting the Sector, Together 🔄
The Sector Networks are growing! We are expanding our impact by bringing in new perspectives to build on strong partnerships that shape and advance a more effective workforce development system. Each Sector Network is welcoming new members. Are you ready to join us?
What You Get as a Member
📊 Labor Market Intelligence and Employer Insights
Access to real-time hiring trends, employer priorities, and dynamic profiles of emerging skills needs across Green, Healthcare, and Tech.
🔄 No Wrong Door Referral Pipeline
Utilize shared referral tools that expand training, certification, and specialized support options for participants across Network members.
💡Knowledge Exchange & Spotlight
Showcase your proven models, operational lessons, and emerging best practices to help shape sector-wide standards and elevate your organization’s work in quarterly working sessions.
📣 Amplified Field Voice & Advocacy
Opportunities for greater visibility and influence through collective policy briefs, public briefings, advocacy, and funding opportunities.
The Member Commitment
- Quarterly Participation: Designate at least one representative to join and contribute to quarterly sector learning communities of up to three hours, with optional opportunities to to lead or join time-bound task forces.*
- Amplify Best Practices: Adopt and share field learnings, referral practices, and policy insights within your own organization.
- Collective Intelligence & Insights: Share high-level outcomes and operational takeaways to help us capture, synthesize, and demonstrate the true impact of sector strategies across NYC.
*There will be opportunities for leadership roles within our Networks. Reach out to mdarby@jobsfirstnyc.org to learn more
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Green Economy Network
Climate Week in Full Force
Climate Week NYC is coming up! See below for where our members will be featured 👇
- Catch Malia Darby, JobsFirst NYC, Nikki Tourigny, The Hope Program, and Stephanie Klocke, NYC Talent, speaking on The Future of Green Jobs at Green Jobs Pavillion on September 21st
- Join JobsFirst NYC, LESEN, Henry Street Settlement, The Green Launchpad, Willdan, Stacks + Joules, and Con Edison at Pathways to Power: Building Sustainable Careers on September 22nd at Abron Arts Center
- Bring your young people to Youth WINS’ Green Energy Symposium at College of Staten Island Center for the Arts on September 23rd
- Visit The Brant event space at Solar One’s Environmental Education Center on September 24th to attend The Economics of Clean Energy & Investment Symposium
We are looking forward to a jam-packed week full of great insights and climate action from our GEN members!
Healthcare Sector Network
Upcoming Fall Trainings
Talent Developers and Educators: Respond to our Voices from the Healthcare Frontline Survey to have your voice represented in our upcoming brief!
Looking for September referral opportunities? HSN members have upcoming trainings 👇
- Goddard Riverside at Stanley Isaacs Center — Certified Nursing Assistant Training
- St. Nicks Alliance — Rolling opportunities for CNA and Hemodialysis Technician. Info Sessions on Fridays
When you refer to a Healthcare Sector Network member, you access the entire Network’s resources. Thank you to our Referral Task Force for ensuring that there is no wrong door to a healthcare career!
Tech Sector Network
Empowering Nonprofits Through Tech Talent
Talent Developers and Educators: Respond to our Voices from the Tech Frontline Survey to have your voice represented in our upcoming brief!
✨Highlighting a work-based learning model within the Tech Sector Network: Per Scholas’ Salesforce Administrator Fellowship.
Through this program, nonprofit partners can host a fully trained, full-time Per Scholas Salesforce Administrator Fellow for an eight month placement.
A Reciprocal Win for Tech Capacity and Sector Network Pipelines
- Tech-Enabling the Sector: Participating CBOs gain dedicated, full-time technical capacity to build custom dashboards, implement AI-powered workflows, streamline operations, manage donor databases, and track participant outcomes—allowing nonprofits to leverage enterprise-grade tech without sacrificing critical program budgets.
- Real-World Work-Based Learning: These fellowships provide full-time, hands-on experience solving complex operational challenges within real-world environments for graduates. Fellows apply their certifications, build vital social capital, and accelerate their tech careers.
- Cross-Sector Impact: Embedding skilled technical talent directly into community-based organizations ensures that local providers across all three networks have the digital infrastructure needed to operate efficiently, measure impact, and scale their services.
We encourage all partners looking to upgrade their digital tools to take advantage of this opportunity. Contact NYSF-Fellowship@perscholas.org to learn more.
Now Hiring 🧑💻
The Doe Fund
Goddard Riverside
- Participant Support Specialist (Advance & Earn)
- Career Pathways Case Management Participant Support Specialist (WIOA)
- Manager of Participant Support LMSW/LCSW/LMHC (Advance + Earn)
The Hope Program
Solar One
St. Nicks Alliance
- Career Training Placement Manager
- Building Trades Job Developer
- Multiple Workforce Development Roles
YM & YWHA – Washington Heights and Inwood
📩 Ready to Connect?
Whether you are a training provider looking to expand candidate access, an employer seeking job-ready talent, or an educational institution aligning career pathways, we invite you to learn more about joining the Sector Networks. Reach out to mdarby@jobsfirstnyc.org