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The Southern Sector Initiative promotes the use of sector strategies as a tool to build the region’s knowledge economy workforce. A joint venture of Southern Growth Policies Board’s Council for a New Economy Workforce, the National Network of Sector Partners, the National Governor’s Association the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation and the Foundation for the Mid South, the Southern Sector Initiative is designed to help states become more efficient in serving high-growth, high-wage industries by combining workforce, education and economic development resources to provide workers with the training and support that leads to upward mobility and job growth. The Council for a New Economy Workforce endorses sector initiatives as a process for implementing the policy recommendations presented in Southern Growth’s 2002 Report on the Future of the South, The Mercedes and the Magnolia and EnterpriseSouth.biz, the 2007 Report on the Future of the South. Overview The Council for a New Economy Workforce and its partners support the Southern Sector Initiative by providing technical assistance, organizing regional meetings and learning labs and documenting best practices. Examples of best practices include Arkansas' Career Pathway Initiative, North Carolina’s Allied Health Sector Strategy and Oklahoma’s GrowOklahoma Strategic Plan. The first Southern Sector Initiative meeting was held in Jackson, Mississippi on September 13, 2007 with more than 80 regional professionals in attendance. As a next step in the project, Southern Growth is developing a white paper for a network of Southern and national foundations that will include recommendations from the meeting and results from a regional survey on “state-level” sector activities. Partners • The National Network of Sector Partners Meeting Materials from September 13th, 2007
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Southern Growth Policies Board, P.O. Box 12293, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709
Phone: (919) 941-5145, Fax: (919) 941-5594, Email: info@southern.org