Skills for America’s Future (Skills) released a request for partnership (RFP) seeking to partner with organizations in cities across the country to expand its unique model for addressing underemployment and unemployment that persists in disinvested communities. After proven results in Chicago and Rhode Island, and poised to launch in Phoenix this year, Skills is working to expand its model to 25 additional new sites over the next 10 years and place over 500,000 individuals into jobs with 25 percent of Fortune 500 companies, as well as other national and local employers. Already, Skills has placed over 19,000 formerly unemployed and underemployed job seekers through its Chicago and Rhode Island sites by unlocking the key to economic mobility in connecting unemployed individuals with companies in need of workers, leveraging its robust network of local and national hiring partners. In its RFP, Skills is seeking nonprofits that are looking to add to or accelerate their workforce efforts through Skills’ national employer network, existing playbook and toolkit, and access to affiliate network and learnings. Skills’ jobs-first model is intended to be additive, not duplicative to existing workforce solutions. To learn more, visit the Skills for America’s website.