June 18, 2009

Advice On Job-Training Partnerships Between Charities and Community Colleges

By Eman Quotah

Charity leaders and community-college officials who have collaborated on job-training programs for low-income people offer the following advice to nonprofit groups on how to make such partnerships work:

Find a champion at the college. "In the community-college system, you need an administrator that is willing to support you and take chances," says Madeline Roman-Vargas, dean of the Humboldt Park Vocational Education Center of Wilbur Wright College, in Chicago.

Otherwise,

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