What We're Reading
We do our best to stay abreast of national, state, and local research, reports, news, data, and other resources to inform our strategies. Here’s a selection of what we’re reading these days:
Vermont Reports & Resources
- Initial Report of the Select Committee on the Future of Public Higher Education in Vermont (December 2020)
- Public Assets: State of Working Vermont report (2020)
- Advance Vermont's data dashboard
- VSAC’s Follow-Up Report on the Vermont High School Class of 2012: a longitudinal study of postsecondary education and attainment (Summer 2020) and VSAC Reports and County Fact Sheets
- The Vermont Department of Labor’s Occupational Information Center
- Community College of Vermont's 2019 Annual Report
- VT9to26 Coalition talking points about the value of young people in Vermont
- Dan Smith's op-ed: The Philanthropy Challenge in Higher Education (November 2019)
- Vermont Community Foundation Staff Blog including our own posts about connecting Vermonters to careers as part of COVID-19 recovery (December 2020), today's college students (January 2019) and insights for funding career pathways (January 2019)
National Reports & Resources
- "The Dollars and Sense of Free College" (2020) from Georgetown University's Center on Education and the Workforce
- "The Jobs the Pandemic May Devastate: An updated forecast by the Bureau of Labor Statistics has alarming news for people with a high school diploma or less" (NYTimes 2021)
- Strada Institute for the Future of Work: On-Ramps to Good Jobs (2019)
- Credentials as a Tool for Equity and Regional Economic Growth: A Funders' Primer (2019)
- The Saguaro Report - Closing the Opportunity Gap: The Saguaro Seminar of the Harvard Kennedy School (2016)
- Grantmakers for Education Resources: reports, case studies, policy updates, and field developments in the field of education philanthropy
