Designation includes grant to increase educational attainment beyond high school Southwest Florida has been designated a Talent Hub by Lumina Foundation in partnership with The Kresge Foundation and will receive…
Goal to educate region’s parents about the importance of enrolling children in free, quality early childhood education In 2019, the Early Childhood Communication Project Team of the FutureMakers Coalition utilized…
Goal to transform Southwest Florida’s workforce. How do you get more than 70 community leaders and educators to come together to talk about moving the needle on our area’s workforce?…
The FutureMakers Coalition of Southwest Florida has launched their latest employment survey at https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/FutureMakersEmployerSurvey and is asking for the region’s help in completing the online form. The survey is designed…
The Bank of America Charitable Foundation, Inc. recently awarded the Southwest Florida Community Foundation a grant in the amount of $10,000 to aid the FutureMakers Coalition in replicating their healthcare system alignment work addressing local workforce gaps for the healthcare industry.
SAIL to 60 initiative sets the goal for at least 60 percent of working-age Florida adults to hold a high-value postsecondary degree, certificate or training experience by the year 2030.
With 49% of working-age Floridians currently holding a postsecondary degree or credential, there is still work to be done in order to ensure the state has the talent needed to meet the needs of its rapidly growing economy.
The FutureMakers Coalition recently released its 2018 outcomes report. The goal of FutureMakers is to transform Southwest Florida’s workforce through collective leadership along the cradle-to-career pathway. The pathway begins with early childhood learning and ends with postsecondary credential attainment and job placement. The coalition has grown to over 300 FutureMakers repre-senting business, education, government, nonprofits and philanthropy across Glades, Hendry, Col-lier, Lee and Charlotte counties.
The FutureMakers Coalition received $5,000 from Arthrex Inc., a global orthopedic surgical device company based in Naples, FL.
In order to minimize the financial burden of applying to college, prospective students can apply for admission to Florida SouthWestern State College (FSW) free-of-charge from Nov. 1-7. The decision to…