Program Description
Good Jobs Chicagoland (GJC) is an employer-led, community-driven initiative that provides training and direct pathways into high-growth industries such as healthcare, IT, manufacturing, and transportation.
The Partnership was the recipient of an $18.5 million federal grant to lead this program. The program builds resilient talent pipelines that connect job seekers, particularly from communities most impacted by poverty and the pandemic, to careers that offer stability, purpose, and family-sustaining wages. The GJC structure consists of four backbone organizations and several support agencies.
Industry Backbones
Manufacturing
The Cook County Bureau of Economic Development, the lead convener of the south suburban collaborative, the Calumet Manufacturing Industry Sector Partnership.
Healthcare
Health & Medicine Policy Research Group houses a coalition of 12 of Chicago’s major health systems and more than a dozen strategic partners.
Transportation, Logistics, and Logistics (TDL)
Olive-Harvey College, a member of the public City Colleges of Chicago system, in partnership with YWCA, which manages The Partnership’s TDL Sector Center.
Information Technology (IT)
P33 staffs the Chicago Tech Talent Alliance, composed of more than 50 businesses that collaborate on joint talent solutions.
