
Innovative Approach to Education and Employment Transformation
CoExIST is a transformative initiative aiming to alleviate poverty and inequity through education and employment. By creating a coordinated system, it provides opportunities for vulnerable youth in high-quality education, employment, and training services. The initiative focuses on building a network of system providers and leveraging resources to address the skills gap and increase graduation rates. With a collective approach and support from various stakeholders, CoExIST is making a significant impact on workforce development and education in Philadelphia.
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CoExIST Stephanie Gambone Executive Vice President Award #DCL 1650510
CoExIST Our Vision To alleviate poverty and inequity through education and employment. Our Mission To create coordinated systems which promote academic achievement, economic opportunity and personal success. Award #DCL 1650510
CoExIST BUILDING A COORDINATED SYSTEM $500M+ Aligned Funding 200+ Community-Based Organization Contracts $ Coordinated Youth- Serving System resulting in 160,000+opportunities for vulnerable youth in high quality education, employment, and training services COLLEGE CAREER READY Award #DCL 1650510
CoExIST Scaling Opportunity Backbone Coordination Blended-Funding Strategy Network of System Providers Professional Development Employer Engagement Technical Administration / Support Data Collection and Evaluation Online Resources Centralized Payroll / HR Procurement Leveraging Resources to Build Scale Award #DCL 1650510
CoExIST COLLECTIVE APPROACH Poverty and Inequity are pervasive challenges that no one organization can solve alone. Our approach centers at the nexus of workforce and education by uniting resources and policy to create a coordinated system of services. Addressing Addressing the skills gap for vulnerable youth Philadelphia s dropout crisis 13 percentage point increase in the on-time high school graduation rate 18 industries represented in partnership, averaging 1,000+ worksites annually $70M+ earned by youth via wages and incentives 29,000+ re-engagement opportunities provided $312 leveraged from public and private sectors $230M leveraged from public and private sectors Award #DCL 1650510
CoExIST Award #DCL 1650510
CoExIST Maintaining Momentum Award #DCL 1650510
CoExIST PYN Theory of Convening Implementing Solutions Defining the Problem Award #DCL 1650510
CoExIST Session Discussion Questions How can backbones leverage impacting policy that benefits all members? What operating practices can be shared across organizations and facilitated by backbones that can create economies of scale? How can the backbone facilitate relationship building to increase the capacities of alliances? How can backbone organizations leverage support from funders, subject matter experts, vendors, policy makers and other partners to increase Alliance member s ability to scale effectively? Award #DCL 1650510