Upskilling

The Care Catalyst: How Child Care Benefits Make the Difference in Retention for Small Businesses

This brief explores how Arkansas is leveraging strategic investments in child care benefits to stabilize employees, strengthening small businesses and communities across the state by highlighting the work of Excel by Eight and two small businesses.

April 8, 2026

Upcoming Events from the Economic Opportunities Program — April 2026

We hope you’ll join us at one of our upcoming events. Everyone who registers will receive a link to the recording, so please sign up even if you can’t participate live.

April 1, 2026

Economic Opportunities Program Monthly Digest — March 2026

We are pleased to present a selection of our work from the past month.

March 31, 2026

Turning Internships Into Strategic Investments: Lessons From Employers

As this work continues to evolve, we must move beyond polite conversation and into systemic redesign. We cannot solve the problems that lie ahead using the maps of the past.

March 26, 2026
https://www.aspeninstitute.org/blog-posts/turning-internships-into-strategic-investments-lessons-from-employers

Apprenticeships and Internships Are Not the Same

As this work continues to evolve, we must move beyond polite conversation and into systemic redesign. We cannot solve the problems that lie ahead using the maps of the past.

March 24, 2026

Economic Opportunities Program Upcoming Events — March 2026

We hope you’ll join us at one of our upcoming events, which you can learn about here. Everyone who registers will receive a link to the recording, so please sign up even if you can’t participate live.

March 3, 2026

Trellis Foundation Directory — Nursing Programs in Texas

This directory highlights the implementation partners participating in Streamlining Success in Nursing Training Programs in Texas, a multi-year initiative focused on advancing innovative, work-based approaches to nursing education across the state.

March 3, 2026

Rethinking Learning and Opportunity: Insights from the Century Summit VI

As this work continues to evolve, we must move beyond polite conversation and into systemic redesign. We cannot solve the problems that lie ahead using the maps of the past.

March 2, 2026

Economic Opportunities Program Monthly Digest — February 2026

We are pleased to present a selection of our work from the past month.

February 28, 2026

Employer Support Contributes to Credential Completion

The RAND evaluation used millions of administrative data records over multiple years from Ivy Tech and conducted a regression analysis to examine whether participation in AYD was associated with differences in credential completion for working learners.

February 17, 2026