The goal of HCAP is to improve the quality of life in communities where employees live and work. Employee-led Community Action Committees are charged with assessing the needs and assets in their communities and developing strategies to respond. This brief summarizes HCAP activities, achievements and milestones in the year 2010.

The recession has not spelled the end for corporate citizenship, but it has forced corporations to rethink—both good and bad—their approach. That's the bottom-line from Weathering the Storm: The State of Corporate Citizenship 2009, a joint project of The Hitachi Foundation and the Boston College Center for Corporate Citizenship.

The Hitachi Foundation launched the Yoshiyama Young Entrepreneurs Program in 2010 but not before researching the landscape of Youth Entrepreneurship Programs. This document represents an element of that research. We identified several entrepreneurship programs serving young entrepreneurs and mapped them by age and program focus. We recognize that this is not an exhaustive list and encourage input and comments. We hope to add to this landscape of Youth Entrepreneurship Programs to continue learning about other great opportunities that support young entrepreneurs throughout the country. Click here to read more. Please email any comments or suggestions to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

The goal of HCAP is to improve the quality of life in communities where employees live and work. Employee-led Community Action Committees are charged with assessing the needs and assets in their communities and developing strategies to respond. This brief summarizes HCAP activities, achievements and milestones in the year 2009.

 

A Pocket Guide for Nonprofit Leaders: Building Partnerships with Businesses and Maximizing Your Organization's Workforce Development Potential is designed to help nonprofit managers plan, initiate, expand and evaluate strategic alliances with business partners. The ideas and lessons in this guide draw directly from the experiences of 27 business/nonprofit alliances funded by The Hitachi Foundation.

Workforce shortages in health care are reaching crisis levels. In response, some employers are rethinking their approaches to recruiting and retaining workers and adopting a "grow-your-own" model, investing in their lower-skilled frontline workers—creating career ladders and work-based learning systems that enable these workers to advance into higher skilled and higher paying jobs. Drawn on the experience of the Baltimore Alliance for Careers in Healthcare, this brief illustrates how a career ladder system could work.

Businesses do not thrive without productive employees. That's a simple concept, but a very complicated goal to achieve. Every employer is challenged by the task of building and nurturing a workforce.A Pocket Guide for Business Leaders: Find, Train, & Keep Productive Employees through Alliances in Your Community offers practical advice to businesses about forming partnerships with nonprofit organizations to help build a stronger workforce.

Health care is a large and growing sector, presenting real opportunities for economically isolated people and communities. Health care employers need a well-trained workforce and a reliable "pipeline" of workers to fill vacancies and address shortages in critical areas.Invisible No Longer focuses on entry-level health care workers and their quest for jobs leading to rewarding careers.

 

Learning from Business-Community Partnerships: A Cluster Evaluation Report identifies key factors that make business and community partnerships effective at addressing economic isolation, as well as the obstacles that can hamper progress.