Education Philanthropy and the 2024 Election: Part 2
September 26, 2024 BlogSince our last blog post on the upcoming election and its implications for education philanthropy, the political landscape…
The Bottom Line
A rapidly expanding collection of companies and organizations are operating and launching Alternative Pathways programs to accelerate individuals’ economic and employment mobility. While drawing on elements of more traditional education-to-employment programs, Alternative Pathways programs (APPs) explicitly prepare participants for validated, in-demand workforce opportunities, often in a much shorter timeframe, and sometimes at a lower cost, than typical higher education or apprentice programs.
We recently derived six “pillars” enabling APP success across a diverse set of prospective participants, derived from an extensive market analysis of companies and organizations in the APP landscape.
Our analysis highlights the spectrum of models within each pillar and identifies the optimal one for those APPs serving non-traditional adult learners. While no organizations we reviewed exhibited all six of the optimal pillars, leading practices did emerge. How does the Alternative Pathways program you are involved with compare?
The Takeaways
These program pillars provide a blueprint for existing and new Alternative Pathway programs to audit their program model, infrastructure, and support services to reach more participants and improve outcomes. The Program Pillars framework can be used in several ways, including:
To Learn More…
Access Tyton Partners’ Path to Employment: Maximizing the Impact of Alternative Pathways Programs, a two-part publication series sponsored by The James Irvine Foundation. Click here to connect with our team and learn more about APPs and how this analysis may support your organizational and / or investment goals.