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Neighborhood Vision 2025

Get Work Ready

Getting MidTown “work ready” is more than connecting people to open positions. This strategy focuses on ways to develop a pipeline of jobs with opportunities for advancement, benefits, and a better outlook for long-term stability. Finding new and innovative ways to close hard and soft skill gaps that exist in the local workforce is necessary. By growing community-serving programs and resources tailored to the needs of the MidTown community and surrounding neighborhoods we will create new ways to improve the job skills of local residents so they can be employed by area businesses. This effort will require engagement with local business-owners to develop and coordinate programs and think differently about hiring and training practices.

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Get Work Ready

Action

Support Efforts to Build Community Financial Literacy, Independence & Empowerment

Help residents reach their financial goals by centralizing free training and educational resources on the MTC webpage. Expand staff knowledge of existing area resources and capacity to support local entrepreneurs.

Near-Term Actions

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Promote RE 101 workshop, expand to other 101 courses.

Partner with businesses to host personal finance classes with their employees.

Encourage businesses to explain financial decisions to entry level staff (ex CFO talks to manufacturing staff).

Type of Action

Planning & Programming

Looking For

Developers & Designers

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