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Area Article: Workforce Development
-       Enhance a region’s or group of people economic stability and prosperity by focusing on people rather than businesses. Develop human-resources strategy, focusing on low-skilled workers, need of more employees, and considers participants’ barriers and needs of the region. Workforce development revolves around two presented strategies. The place-based strategy focuses on needs in areas that focus on the people and low-income job seekers and a pathway out of poverty. Helping people gain access to the labor market, providing mentors to guide others in the community to achieve quality jobs. Sector-based strategy that identifies needs of an industry emphasizing employer and market driver strategies. This focuses on the demand side of the economy, thus they have high requirements of specific workforce skills. This area is created by employers of businesses and people who want to work to advance in their careers. Employers have a role in creating curriculum and assessment tools to build their programs. The barriers in this strategy are numerous as it may be difficult to train a large low-income population with very low qualifications, as the company wants to reduce costs. Work force development is a positive initiative to increase equity in various regions. People don’t have equal opportunities in inner cities, thus programs increase their skill levels. Advancing in careers for minorities is important and there is a large role of public and private organizations in collaboration of the effort. It is crucial to consider the effects of the programs in the community and its ability to adapt in various situations, this is considering competition, initial upfront costs, and ties with employers and community partners.

Focus: Social Impact vs. Social Enterprise
-       A social enterprise is an organization that uses strategies of commercial businesses to increase revenue while also focusing on the social/environmental well being. There are various forms of businesses that can apply this strategy to contribute to social change. Social enterprise focuses on the term in relation to referring to microfinance. There are various issues that are faced such as focusing on the accumulation of finances from the business that could be taking away from the social impact. Social impact and social enterprise are not the same as their effects in the community are widely differentiated.

-       Focus on potentially writing about social impact of the enterprise in the community

-       Focus on potentially writing about the effects of the social enterprise in the economy of the region.

Area Article: Workforce development
Evaluation: Well-covered article by many contributors with several subcategories covering policy, governances, and social classes and impact that focuses on all areas of workforce development. I plan to add to the place-based workforce development as it contributes to the development of the area as well as the economic benefits of enhancing the workforce. This is related to what I need to know for my PE org as the Bread Project focuses on building skills of local community members who face low-income or displacement struggles, thus place-based workforce development is crucial to understand.

Sector Article: Social Impact vs. Social Enterprise
Evaluation: The social enterprise is a well-written article focusing on various approaches to how social enterprises are constructed and funding. However, the article has little information about the social impact on the community and how social enterprises measure program effectiveness. I believe I can contribute to the area of community partnership and measuring success within various program strategies. This is relevant to the information I need to know for my PE org as the Bread Project focuses on teaching baking skills and then providing over 12 months of follow-up services after the completion of the program to ensure participants are employed to measure the success of the program.

Title: The Emergence of ‘Workforce Development’: Definition, Conceptual Boundaries and Implications : Chapter XV.2

 * The main argument of this article is workforce development has become national policies and programs throughout the world. This includes training initiatives that focus on development through educational and professional practice. The article stresses the importance of community relations and partnerships for these educational training programs to be successful. Professionals have concluded to help individuals in the community it is crucial for them to integrate them in acquiring a new skill set throughout the program. This is because of the five interrelated systems of globalization, technology, political change, demographic shifts, and the economy.This is relevant to understanding my PE as it provides the fundamental understanding of workforce development initiatives and the various forms they can take. The Bread Project's mission is to help low-income people enter the workforce through baking and I plan to use this article to edit the Workforce Development wiki article to explain the importance of equal opportunity in struggling communities.

Title: Community Colleges and Their Communities: Collaboration in Workforce Development.

 * The main argument of this article is community colleges are forging a wide range of partnerships and collaborations with other community interests and resources to create a variety of vocational education opportunities. The primary resources that community colleges gain through strategic alliances are improved educational pathways into their programs and services and in transferring students to four-year college programs; better access to student markets, particularly for those who can persist in college -level work; and improved forecasting of changing workforce development needs that have implications for programs, curriculum, and student recruitment. This article is related to my PE org and understanding how community partners can create a major impact on workforce development in communities that may not have resources to enter the market. The Bread Project has several community partners that do similar work as them as well as hire the participants who graduate the program. I plan to use this article to edit the Workforce Development wiki article to explain how community partners throughout social enterprises create a major impact on workforce development.

Title: Workforce Development as an Antipoverty Strategy: What Do We Know? What Should We Do

 * The main argument of this article is there are many criticisms of government programs for low-income individuals is the extent to which they appear in multiple 6 agencies in the federal budget, with inefficiencies associated with overlapping clientele and jurisdictions.Vocational services target the disabled, and not necessarily disadvantaged. This reflects the reorientation of welfare programs towards “work first” approaches, generally to the exclusion of workforce training.This article is related to my PE org and understanding how workforce development is a way to alleviate poverty as an extremely strong strategy. At the Bread Project, their mission is to specifically help low-income individuals in the bay area come out of poverty and become self-sustaining members of our community by entering the workforce. I plan to use this article to edit the Workforce Development wiki article to explain how workforce development and educating through skills is a strategy to decrease poverty.

Title: Scaling Social Impact, Strategies for spreading social innovations

 * This article focuses on how social entrepreneurs can effectively scale their impact to reach communities that benefit from their innovations. The Five Pillars serve as a framework that guides academic leadership and school culture to optimize student achievement. Each school is unique, reflecting the individuality of its community and the leadership style and education philosophy of its school leader. All scaling strategies, even the dissemination of principles, require incremental resources. Before committing to a specific strategy, social entrepreneurs should have a plausible resource plan in mind. What core elements of the innovation are critical to achieving the intended impact? If it is unclear, the innovation may not yet be ready to be spread. This article is related to my PE org and understanding the various strategies and creative solutions that can create a larger social impact. At the Bread Project we continue to try new forms of social media, curriculum changes, and variation in professional being taught to adapt to the changing job market. I plan to use this article to edit the Social Impact Vs. Social Enterprise wiki article to explain how innovative strategy can enhance the social impact of the enterprise while funding itself.

Title: The Legitimacy of Social Enterprise

 * The main argument of this article is social enterprise has emerged as a businesslike contrast to the traditional nonprofit organization. Social enterprise is going to continue its evolution away from forms that focus on broad frame-breaking and innovation to a narrower focus on market-based solutions and businesslike . models. Moral legitimacy refers to the normative domain of propriety rather than self-interest, and it is accorded when activities are undertaken as they should be, in reference to broader norms in the sociopolitical environment. This article related to my PE org and understanding the fundamentals of social enterprise before I can assess measuring the impact. At the Bread Project, I am immersed in businesslike culture that focuses on creating a major social impact in the community. I plan to use this article to edit the Social Impact Vs. Social Enterprise wiki article to explain how a social enterprise setting allows programs to emphasize social impact through consulting and strategies.

Title: Social Enterprise in the United States and Europe: Understanding and Learning from the Differences

 * The main argument of this article is for over two decades, social enterprise movements in the United States and Europe have taken on growing importance. Broadly defined as the use of nongovernmental, market-based approaches to address social issues, social enterprise has become an increasingly popular means of funding and supplying social initiatives. Existing social service nonprofits took on social enterprise activities as a way to finance the provision of services already in place with the result that social enterprise is often separate, usually outside activity supporting a broad range of social services. This relates to my PE org and understanding of measuring success of programs as well as how social enterprise and non-profits are supported in order to create a strong impact. I plan to use this article to edit the Social Impact Vs. Social Enterprise wiki article to explain the lack of resources, funding initiatives, and program effectiveness that influence social impact.

Place-Based Workforce Development and Sector-based Workforce Development
They focus on the people in a specific region or community, identifying employment needs and barriers to employment and then building programs to help address those needs and barriers.Placing individuals in long-term, sustainable jobs can be a challenge for place-based workforce development programs. Their strength in providing access to holistic services (especially to address basic social service needs) is great for getting folks into jobs quickly. Because they are focused on improving employment for individuals in a specific geographic area, place-based workforce development programs can also help address other central concerns in the region. Where place-based workforce development focuses on the “supply” side, sector-based workforce development focuses on the “demand” side. The ultimate goal of sector-based workforce development is to create a strong talent pool for a specific industry. There is less focus on increasing the general hireability of the most disadvantaged residents of a community. Instead, sector-based workforce development programs target specific subgroups of workers who are prepared for additional industry-specific training or are good candidates for transitioning to a new industry. n communities where potential workers demonstrate low literacy or educational levels, sector-based workforce development approaches may not be prepared to address those foundational needs and provide specialized training.

Social Impact vs. Social enterprise
Social enterprises are businesses created to further a social purpose in a financially sustainable way. Social enterprises can provide income generation opportunities that meet the basic needs of people who live in poverty. Are sustainable. Earned income from sales is reinvested in their mission. They do not depend on philanthropy and can sustain themselves over the long term. Are scalable. Their models can be expanded or replicated to other communities to generate more impact. a social enterprise is more sustainable than a nonprofit organization that must rely on grant money, donations or federal programs alone. As a for-profit model, you control the curriculum and funding of the program. The incentives of the company are designed such that greater impact directly correlates to a great profit. investors and business partners today want to know that the companies they choose are doing more than just providing a product or service. They look for companies that are doing good. They will feel a special connection to companies whose values align with their own. A social enterprise chooses a big problem. Social impact companies don’t think small. They start with something big like the environment, healthcare, equity or underserved populations, and figure out how they can make a big difference.