$150 billion offered annually to help millions of students pay for college or career school. Filing for the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) is essential for graduating high…
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A pair of initiatives in Southwest Florida aim to get the region’s younger residents — and future potential talent — invested in the community they live in by addressing a…
Public invited to join free seminars to learn more about how structural racism and implicit bias is impacting the region’s education and workforce. For the first time since the…
In this issue: FutureMakers Partner Spotlight, Annual Workforce Employer Survey, Calling all FutureMakers!, Upcoming FutureMakers Events, Courageous Conversations, Data Reports and What We Are Reading.
As the Data & Reporting Team assembles this year’s Educational and Workforce Outcomes Report, we will be reaching out to the Coalition’s network, many of whom ARE the educators, parents, and students who found the resilience to meet the daily COVID challenges, to add their stories and to provide context around the educational outcome statistics.
Michelle Gonzalez became a FutureMaker at the start of the 2020 school year with the Access & Entry team. With 20+ years of higher education experience, she serves as a…
61 college students from the five county area shared perspectives and experiences Florida SouthWestern State College students recently participated in FutureMakers’ first Student Voice Summit focused on college students. This…
FutureMakers Coalition isn’t an organization, it is a network working to transform Southwest Florida’s workforce. Right now, Southwest Florida doesn’t have the skilled workers needed to fill in-demand jobs. Too many workers are unemployed, or working multiple jobs trying to make ends meet. A superintendent is a key partner when it comes to transforming our workforce as they influence the full spectrum of K-12 students, and the parents that support them.
Goal to transform Southwest Florida’s workforce FutureMakers Coalition of Southwest Florida has launched their latest employment survey at https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/KG33MHZ and is asking for the region’s help in completing the online…
Workforce Development of Hendry County, comprised of two towns, LaBelle and Clewiston, epitomize a closely-knit, small rural community. Hendry County Schools, which serves these areas, is rich in cultural diversity, and is showing a growing demand for high paying, high skilled wages. Over the past year, we have a 43% growth in our adult education classes.
