America's fastest growing region is working together to build a workforce for tomorrow...
What's the story of tomorrow's workforce and how do you build the right collaborative approach among public and private sector partners to make that story real? solid worked with the Centralina Council of Governments, the Lumina Foundation and regional partners across a nine-county region with strategy development, focus group facilitation, partnership and organizational consulting, branding and strategic communications services for Working for Tomorrow.
Building Futures (originally named the Centralina Partnership for Attainment and Career Pathways CPACP) is a community collaboration of the 9-county Centralina region around Charlotte, NC committed to increasing overall post-secondary attainment in the region and to increasing post-secondary attainment for occupations in the region’s high-demand, high-growth industry sectors that require a variety of postsecondary credentials. These sectors – Aerospace, Automotive, Energy, Finance, Health/Biomedical Sciences, and Logistics – depend heavily on core workforce competencies of our region in advanced manufacturing, information technology and engineering.
Building Futures' overarching goals were twofold:
increase the percent of the population aged 18-55 with post-secondary credentials in skill areas required by the region’s target industry cluster employers, by 25%; and
raise overall post-secondary attainment among 25-64 year olds to 60% by 2025.