Strong Programs Stall When the Systems Around Them Don’t Connect
Workforce and community-based organizations hold deep local knowledge and nurture powerful relationships. When the frameworks supporting them run on separate tracks, that expertise stays isolated. Coordination becomes harder. Impact stays smaller than it should.
51.3%
NYC Youth Working Part-Time
Low-earning roles create a mobility ceiling that keeps working youth trapped.
11.9%
Youth Unemployment in NYC
Persistent joblessness limits community economic growth and keeps vital local talent sidelined.
72%
of US Job Openings Will Require Some Postsecondary Training by 2031
The demand for credentials beyond a high school diploma continues to grow.
Local Expertise Deserves Infrastructure That Amplifies It
JobsFirst NYC gives workforce organizations and CBOs a clear, shared design for coordinating across systems. We bring proven tools and learning from cities and regions already doing this work. Your organization’s insight doesn’t stay local; it shapes how other cities and regions invest, operate, and design pathways to opportunity.
Proven Designs for Organizations Ready to Move As One System
Local Drivers—local workforce intermediaries—are incubating and scaling solutions that replace fragmented frameworks with coordinated, community-led progress. What works in one region strengthens the next.
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JobsFirst NYC
Learn More: Sector NetworksSector Networks
JobsFirst NYC’s Sector Networks, an expansion of our Young Adult Sectoral Employment Project (YASEP), are citywide workforce development partnerships in three New York City growth industries: the green economy, healthcare, and technology. The networks strengthen collaboration…
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JobsFirst NYC
Learn More: Young Adult Sectoral Employment ProjectYoung Adult Sectoral Employment Project
A first-of-its-kind effort to test how sector strategies can be most effectively adapted to better serve young adults.
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JobsFirst NYC
Learn More: YES Bed StuyYES Bed Stuy
A collaborative building stronger education and employment pathways for young adults, with an emphasis on youth voice, skills training, and credentials.
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JobsFirst NYC
Learn More: Youth WINSYouth WINS
A collaborative meeting the career readiness needs of young adults through educational attainment, certification, and job placement.
The Power of Cross-Sector Coordination
Local Drivers use a shared process to align programs, partners, and priorities. Each site builds on what others have learned. Organizations get clearer coordination; communities get stronger paths to opportunity close to home.
20+
Years of Workforce Infrastructure
Proven workforce solutions stabilize employer talent pipelines across industries.
220+
Partners in Sync
Employers, training organizations, schools, community organizations coordinated through one shared framework.
$200M+
Funds Raised & Leveraged
Public and private resources advance innovative and effective solutions.
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Learn how cities design infrastructure that makes opportunity visible, trusted, and reachable close to home.
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JobsFirst NYCRead More: Learning Briefs: The Sector NetworksLearning Briefs: The Sector Networks
A series of Sector Networks Learning Briefs that capture key practice shifts, systemic outcomes, and recommendations for the field to sustain and expand impact.
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JobsFirst NYCRead More: The Sector Connector: Your September Work Solutions UpdateThe Sector Connector: Your September Work Solutions Update
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…
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JobsFirst NYCRead More: The Sector Connector: Your August Work Solutions UpdateThe Sector Connector: Your August Work Solutions Update
This is a space dedicated to sharing updates from the Green Economy, Healthcare, and Tech Sector Networks; reporting on partnership goals, insights and impacts, relaying program openings and recruitment opportunities, and deepening cross-sector collaboration. Curious what’s…
Coordinate Across Systems
Work within a proven design that supports alignment, learning, and improvement across cities and regions.
FAQ
NYC place-based workforce innovation is the practice of building coordination infrastructure that reflects the specific assets, relationships, and priorities of New York City communities. JobsFirst NYC gives workforce organizations and CBOs a clear, shared design for coordinating across systems: proven tools and cross-site learning that make local expertise travel further than any single organization can reach alone.
Workforce and community organizations in New York City hold deep local knowledge and nurture powerful relationships. Without a shared coordination structure, that expertise stays isolated. NYC place-based workforce innovation gives programs the infrastructure to align with partners, share learning, and produce outcomes that go further than any single organization can achieve alone.
JobsFirst NYC partners with Local Drivers to give workforce organizations and CBOs a clear, shared design for coordinating across systems. NYC place-based workforce innovation builds the infrastructure to keep young adults close to home, connected to opportunity, and supported by their communities.