Please see our latest publication for NCCED entitled: Building Partnerships Between State TANF Initiatives and CDCs: A Guidebook for Practitioners and State Officials. (A federal briefing on this topic may be viewed on the web at: www.iti-corp.com/hud/training/training-2-8-00.htm)

Workforce Development Networks: Community-Based Organizations and Regional Alliances, written by Bennett Harrison and Marcus Weiss is available through Sage Publications. To order Workforce Development Networks, or for additional information, please call Sage Publications at (805) 499-7994 or fax them at (805) 499-0871. You can also order by e-mail at order@sagepub.com

In addition, Networking Across Boundaries: New Directions in Community-Based Job Training and Economic Development, comprised of the companion case studies to Workforce Development Networks, is available through EDAC. To order the three volume set of case studies funded by the Ford, Casey and MacArthur Foundations, please send a fax request to EDAC at (617) 367-0908 or send e-mail requests to: EDACmark@aol.com. The case studies are being distributed by EDAC at cost (printing & handling).

Some comments regarding Workforce Development Networks include:

"This is by far the most important study on employment training and workforce development that I have read. Bennett Harrison and Marcus Weiss' empirically based, and theoretically informed case studies of networks of workforce development break new ground. They provide direction for the creation of more effective community-based approaches to job training nationwide.

--------William Julius Wilson
Malcolm Wiener Professor of Social Policy, Harvard University

"Workforce Development Networks points the way to revolutionizing workforce development in the United States. It demonstrates the necessity for training programs to directly engage in the private sector, to adapt an "employer mentality," and to institutionalize the connection between training networks and companies. As Bennett Harrison and Marcus Weiss so clearly demonstrate, workforce development cannot be seen as a social program, but must be driven by the needs of the market. At a time when tight labor markets are motivating companies to take more risks and expand more effort to access new pools of workers, this book makes an essential contribution."

--------Michael E. Porter
Harvard Business School

"A wide-ranging and insightful tour of community collaborations that make a difference for the urban poor. The models and lessons of this book should be widely applied."

---------Rosabeth Moss Kanter
author of World Class: Thriving Locally in the Global Economy
Harvard Business School

"Rethinking National Economic Development Policy" (Bennett Harrison and Marcus Weiss, co-principal investigators). EDAC's 458 page study for the U.S. Economic Development Administration is now available from the National Technical Information Service of the U.S. Department of Commerce. (1-800-553-6847; publication #: PB97-162291NZ; $69.50)

This document includes papers by some of the nation's leading scholars and policy analysts on economic development issues. Topics include:

National, Regional and Local Economic Development Policy

Economic Development, Devolution and Public Policy

The Federal Role in Rural Economic Development

Leveraging Private Sector Resources for Community-Based Investments

Principles for Planning Place-Based Economic Development in Black/Latino Urban

Communities

Federal Industrial Technology Policy

Military Base Closings

Labor Markets and City-Suburban Inequalities

Excerpts and summaries from several papers in this report have appeared regularly in the Economic Development Quarterly (EDQ) in recent issues.