Workforce Development Increasing Opportunities for Apprenticeships, Internships, and Skill-Building

Career Catalyst

Career Catalyst is a suite of services for organizations who are seeking to offer paid work experience. The tool allows organizations to hire interns and temporary employees, while FoundationCCC assumes liability and serves as the employer of record, administering payroll, managing workers’ compensation, and addressing human resource needs.

Private companies, industry associations, state and local agencies, workforce intermediaries, colleges, and nonprofit organizations are eligible to work with Career Catalyst, which can provide support for short-term, part-time, summer, and full-time employment to connect workers with the skills they need to be successful in their future careers.

Fresh Success

Fresh Success helps community colleges and community-based organizations and adult education centers start and manage CalFresh Employment and Training programs, which help CalFresh participants gain education and training that will lead to better employment and a path to economic self-sufficiency. FoundationCCC provides tools, templates, training, and technical assistance to ease the start-up process, support effective program practices, and help manage federal funding.

Grow Apprenticeship California

Grow Apprenticeship California, an initiative of FoundationCCC, helps to expand and scale apprenticeship and pre-apprenticeship programs in new and innovative sectors to connect all Californians to good jobs with family-sustaining wages and advancement opportunities. Through the creation of a community of practice and providing resources for technical assistance, Grow Apprenticeship California supports the creation of apprenticeship opportunities statewide.

LAUNCH Apprenticeship Network

Formed in 2018, the LAUNCH Apprenticeship Network partners with community colleges, high schools, and universities to build a dynamic workforce development system that connects businesses, job seekers, and career-builders to apprenticeship programs. LAUNCH uses an integrated apprenticeship-centered higher education model to serve as an intermediary for apprenticeship opportunities for businesses, schools, and students and aims to elevate work-based degree pathways as premier academic and career options for students.

Regional K-16 Education Collaboratives Grant Program

The Regional K-16 Education Collaboratives Grant Program is part of a statewide strategy for strengthening education-to-workforce pathways and ensuring that education, vocational, and workforce programs work in partnership to address the income, racial, and gender inequalities in education and employment. In partnership with the California Department of General Services and Office of Public School Construction, FoundationCCC helped launch and continue to administer the competitive grant program to support regional K-16 education collaboratives that create streamlined pathways from high school to postsecondary education and into the workforce.

Student Training & Employment Program (STEP)

Established in 2018, the Student Training & Employment Program (STEP), in a coordinated effort by the California Department of Rehabilitation (DOR) and FoundationCCC, funds work readiness and paid work experiences, encourages local partnerships, and serves students statewide by providing job preparation training, including job exploration, workplace readiness skills training, and work-based learning experiences, as well as summer work experience to students with disabilities.