Business

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The 2010 Solution
Business
Educators
Labor
Parents Students
Government
NGO Intermediary Agency
Liberal Arts Education Career Prep.
Incumbent Worker Lifelong Learning
Employment High Wage/High Skill Economy Expands
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Non-Governmental Organizations

• (NGOs)

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Community development starts at the grass roots

• Formula for Success
• People plus Ideas plus the right resources

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How to get started?

• OVERCOME three clichés

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• Timing is everything(Take action during a
  crisis)
• Its WHO you know(Networking)
• It takes two to tango(Giving up some turf)

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Bridge To Careers(Santa Ana, California)

• Research Center
• Workforce Institute
• High School, Inc.

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Surry County, North Carolina

• Strategic Five-Year Plan
• Yadkin Center
• Craft Design Center
• Viticulture
• Bio-Tech Education

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It Takes Two to Tango

• Fargo, North Dakota

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Fargo, North Dakota

• Fargo-Moorhead Chamber of Commerce
• Cass County Economic Development Corp.
• Skills Training Technology Center (11
  post-secondary institutions)

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Establishing a NGO

• Step One Build a Framework
• Mission Statement
• Board of Directors Community members who
• know the issues
• are connected to the NGOs mission
• By-Laws of the Board
• Conflict of Interest Statement
• Financial Management Practices

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Establishing a NGO

• Step Two Program Planning Evaluation
• Describe the problem to be addressed
• Identify strategies to address the problem
• Describe the individual activities for each
  strategy
• Establish monitoring procedures to determine if a
  project is on track or if revisions are needed
• Plan periodic evaluation of NGO programs

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Establishing a NGO

• Step Three Coalition Building
• Develop partnerships with other community players
• Adopt coordinated long and short term programs
• Look for common activities with other groups
• Determine if a coalition is temporary for a
  specific issue or permanent if missions and
  interests are compatible

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Establishing a NGO

• Step Four Development of Sustainable
  Benchmarks
• Early Transition (Examples)
• Develop clear mission and strategic plan
• Dialogue with key players business,
  government, unions, schools, etc.

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Establishing a NGO

• Step Four Development of Sustainable
  Benchmarks
• Mid-Transition (Examples)
• Clearly define the roles of the board and
  staff
• Lobby and advocate at local and state levels
• Develop a diversified funding base
• Fully involve community and staff in strategic
  planning

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Establishing a NGO

• Step Four Development of Sustainable
  Benchmarks
• Consolidation (Examples)
• Attract public support and engage
  decision- makers though clarity of vision and
  purpose
• Enlist the board in fundraising, public
  relations, and lobbying activities
• Adapt the strategic plan to ongoing changes

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Establishing a NGO

• Step 5 Fundraising
• Diversify activities and donor base
• Build partnership with donors
• Ensure a continuous process of grant seeking

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In the new world of chronic labor
shortagesGovernment may have to

• Allow more immigrants, especially skilled labor
• Step up national investments in schools
• Expand the school day and offer national pre-K

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In the new world of chronic labor
shortagesGovernment may have to

• Subsidize child care especially forlow-income
  families
• Shift college aid from the middle class to poor
  and minority students
• Alter laws governing pensions to discourage early
  retirement

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In the new world of chronic labor
shortagesEmployers may have to

• Offer more flexibility to working mothers and
  more help with child care and other parental
  needs
• Entice older workers to retire later or return to
  work
• Step up diversity programs to bring in more
  minorities

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In the new world of chronic labor
shortagesEmployers may have to

• Recruit and train hard-to-place workers, such as
  welfare moms, people with disabilities, and
  former prisoners
• Hike spending on training and education

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Workers over 50

• HR Directors Views
• Expensive to maintain
• Change adaptation poor
• Hard to mesh with younger workers
• Poor ROI for training
• Source Hewitt Assoc., 2005

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• Planning and verbal abilities peak in peoples
  50s and 60s
• Louise Rolland
• Professor, Aging Work
• Swinburne University
• Australia
• 2005

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• Older workers have similar productivity to
  younger ones in jobs requiring sustained
  attention
• World Health Organization
• 1993

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• With age social skills get better getting on
  with people, understanding people, working
  together, and accepting differences.
• Juhani Ilmarinen
• Finnish Institute of
• Occupational Health
• 2005

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Americans Retirement PlansHSBC Survey (2004)

• 46 ? Wanted to move between work
  leisure
• 21 ? Wanted to work part-time
• 11 ? Wanted to work full-time
• 19 ? Never wanted to work for pay again

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Dr. Edward E. Gordon

• www.imperialcorp.com
• 800-537-8189