Publications

Talent Pipeline Management Progress Report

March 16, 2021

This report highlights progress by the Chamber Foundation Talent Pipeline Management® (TPM) initiative and its growing network of leaders.

Innovation

TPM: A Case Study Analysis of Best Practices and Common Challenges

March 15, 2021

With collaboratives now established in more than 30 industries across 36 states, the Chamber Foundation has learned a lot about best practices and common challenges associated with launching and managing TPM employer collaboratives.

Innovation

Developing And Using Public-Private Data Standards For Employment and Earnings Records

February 17, 2021

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation (Chamber Foundation) and the T3 Innovation Network (T3 Network) recently partnered with the HR Open Standards Consortium (HR Open) to develop public-private open data standards for employment and earnings records.

Data

T3 Network of Networks Work Group Final Report

December 17, 2020

Accelerating the Digital Transformation of the Talent Marketplace

The T3 Innovation Network (T3 Network) is an initiative whose mission is to convene diverse stakeholders within the talent marketplace and remove barriers to enable digital transformation and innovation, promoting access, a

Building a More Inclusive Talent Marketplace: Increasing Opportunity Through Community and Business-Led Initiatives

September 23, 2020

T3 Network Opportunity Populations Report

The U.S. Chamber Foundation is dedicated to strengthening America’s long-term competitiveness. This effort includes educating the public on the conditions necessary for businesses and communities to thrive while highlighting emerging issues and creative solutions that will shape the future.

Talent Finance: A New Consensus and Return-to-Investment

September 21, 2020

The Talent Finance initiative explores new ways to invest in talent development that keep pace with innovation and advance economic opportunity, inclusion, and competitiveness. In the 21st century economy, jobs—and the skills required to fill those jobs—change rapidly. The Foundation has launched this initiative to catalyze business-led solutions to one of the biggest workforce challenges in America today.

TPM Resource Guide: Connecting Opportunity Population Talent to Better Career Pathways

September 3, 2020

As businesses and workers adjust to rapidly changing work environments, employers are focusing on improving diversity to strengthen their workforce. In addition, new economic and workplace challenges may exacerbate barriers to employment — particularly for those who experience barriers to education, employment, and advancement — otherwise known as opportunity populations. Organizations that serve opportunity populations are looking for new ways to connect those who experience barriers to employment to meaningful career pathways and advancement. Strengthening relationships between businesses and opportunity population-serving organizations (OPSOs) is important, but major systemic challenges to sustained partnership often exist.

TPM Resource Guide: A Compendium for High-Quality CTE

May 6, 2020

Leaders across sectors are investing time and resources in forward-looking models to address our workforce challenges for the talent we need now and into the future. One key component of this is building stronger partnerships between employers and the CTE community—bridging the communication divide by providing each with an orientation of the other. This resource guide serves not only as an introduction to the TPM framework, but that more CTE systems and programs can begin leveraging and beneﬁting from this authentically employer-led movement.

K-12 Education

Youth Employment

Landscape Analysis: Improving Signaling of In-Demand Skills

February 19, 2020

2020 Workforce Landscape Analysis Report

A growing number of organizations and initiatives are focusing on closing a communication gap that exists because our education and employment systems don’t speak the same language or communicate effectively. But as they’ve grown in number, the challenge of differentiating between and among players, their overlapping solutions, and the complex relationships among them likewise grows. This paper aims to demystify that landscape and how the major initiatives, including three led by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation, fit together.

Data