What We Do

New York City Employment and Training Coalition is the largest city-based workforce development association in the country with over 220 members providing jobs for more than 200,000 New Yorkers. Our mission is to ensure that every New Yorker has access to the skills, training, and education needed to thrive in the local economy, and that every business is able to maintain a highly skilled workforce. NYCETC convenes stakeholders across the system, discovers and develops innovative solutions to create an interconnected and effective workforce, and advocates for equitable workforce development policies and investments at all levels of government that support people, communities and systems.

Past Initiatives

New York City Inclusive Growth Initiative

From 2021-2022, The New York City Inclusive Growth Initiative was a project composed of an 18-person Steering Committee representative of the diversity of New York City. Convened and facilitated by the New York City Employment and Training Coalition, the Association for Neighborhood & Housing Development, and Regional Plan Association, this Steering Committee developed the Inclusive Growth Blueprint for the future of economic development, workforce development and affordable housing.

New York Workforce Recovery Strategy Group

During 2020, in direct response to the growing crisis of unemployment and small business collapse in New York City as a result of the COVID-19 health crisis, leaders from the public and private sector partnered to form the New York Workforce Recovery Strategy Group and create space for a solutions-oriented discussion to the current economic challenges. The NYC Employment and Training Coalition organized the formation of this group. Learn more about the group.

Invest in Skills NY

From 2020 to 2021, Invest In Skills NY was a statewide advocacy partnership between employers, economic development and workforce development communities to urge the Governor and New York State Legislature to prioritize a skilled workforce as an economic necessity. Funded by the New York Community Trust, the NYC Workforce Funders and the Ralph C. Wilson Foundation, this effort aims to raise the collective knowledge about workforce development as economic development and encourage policy reforms to meet the changing demands of the labor market. In 2021, the Invest in Skills NY group authored the Follow the Money: Understanding New York City’s Workforce System Funding report.