Business Partnerships: How to Involve Employers in Welfare Reform

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May 1998

Business Partnerships
How to Involve Employers in Welfare Reform

Amy Brown, Maria L. Buck, Erik Skinner

This guide provides practical advice on engaging the business community in welfare reform. By describing the efforts of initiatives and programs across the country, it offers guidance for the public sector on how to engage the business community, for employers on how to integrate welfare recipients into their workforce, and for other interested parties on how to bridge the gap between welfare recipients and jobs. Since many of these strategies are new and as yet unproven, the guide presents a variety of approaches for readers to consider in developing their own partnerships.

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This guide was prepared with the support of the Annie E. Casey Foundation and the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation. It is being published and disseminated as part of MDRC's ReWORKing Welfare technical assistance project.

ReWORKing Welfare Funders include Ford Foundation, Charles Stewart Mott Foundation, The James Irvine Foundation, The David and Lucile Packard Foundation, The Annie E. Casey Foundation, The George Gund Foundation, Commonwealth of Kentucky, State of Oregon, State of West Virginia, State of Washington, Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation (through the Local Investment Commission of Greater Kansas City, Missouri), The California Wellness Foundation, Welfare Information Network, and County of Cuyahoga, Ohio.

The findings and conclusions presented in this report do not necessarily represent the official positions or policies of the funders.