Regional Partnerships for Immigrant Integration and Workforce Development in the City of Seattle and King CountyThe City of Seattle Office or Immigrant and Refugee Affairs ("OIRA") commissioned this report to deepen our collective understanding of immigration in our region. The report offer ways that the City of Seattle and neighboring cities, King County, workforce agencies and education stakeholders, labor unions, employers, and community organizations can work together in solidarity to improve the workforce conditions and economic stability of all our residents –immigrant and native born alike.
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Investing in Essential Grocery Store Workers
Commissioned by UFCW 3000, the largest private sector union in Washington State, this report provides a comprehensive analysis of the retail grocery sector and workforce.
The report assesses the need for new education, training, professional development, and apprenticeship programs to be developed and implemented by the newly-launched WeTrain Washington. Glenn Scott Davis and Evan Woods co-authored the report. |
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Creating Quality Jobs for All in Washington's Tech Sector
Immigrant rights organization, OneAmerica, sponsored this paper, which tackles the issue of race and gender in the tech sector. The report provides a set of policy recommendations for improving job quality, economic stability, and race and gender equity for tech workers.
The paper was co-edited by Glenn Davis and Rich Stolz and authored by Kimberly Earles and Marcus Courtney. |
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Recovery for Whom?
This paper, authored by Glenn and edited by Rich Stolz with data and research support from Spencer Cohen (High Peak Strategies), explores the “big-picture” questions of where we are, how we got here, and where we are headed.
It poses Washington state-specific policy questions to prompt discussion among stakeholders about supporting recovery for working people, rejecting budget-cuts, and enacting progressive taxation. We also pose questions about re-envisioning economic and workforce development to focus on quality jobs, economic stability, and equity. |
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Breaking Barriers and Building Bridges
This study, authored by Glenn, was researched and written for the Seattle City Council and Mayor to explore the feasibility of establishing services in our City for internationally-educated immigrants and refugees who are seeking professional occupations in the U.S.
This report profiles our regional workforce including changing patterns of social and career mobility to understand the barriers, and needs, of immigrants and refugees in the context of our current local economy and labor market. This study provides a set of policy recommendations for public investments and programs to expand career pathways of immigrant and refugees. |
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Ready to Work: Breaking Barriers and Building Bridges:
Jobs and English Language Learning for Immigrants & Refugees
Jobs and English Language Learning for Immigrants & Refugees
Co-authored by Glenn and Maria Luisa Castenada, this handbook was prepared for the largest worker education and training organization in the U.S.,
This 'handbook" - the result of a year-long inquiry - lays out the educational philosophy of the 1199 SEIU Training Fund and details a full set of operational program standards to drive quality and professional development in 28 distinct adult education programs operating in 2011.
Led by Glenn, in 2004. the
1199 SEIU Training Fund launched the innovative Gerontology training program that enrolled several thousand nursing home workers.
This textbook, edited by Glenn and Allyson Skikas and
published in 2005
explored all the aspects of
aging: physical, psychological, intellectual, emotional and social.
The program, evaluated by Fordham University, resulted
in measurable improvements in the quality of elder care, worker voice and labor-management relations in dozens of nursing homes in New York City, Long Island, and Westchester County.
This 2007 “Blue Print,” report, co-authored by Glenn and Ingrid McDonald for SEIU 775, offered a detailed plan for how to build an adult-learner centered training, support, and career development organization for Washington State.
The proposal was based on an analysis of the failings of the then existing training model and infrastructure in Washington. The report provide a core resource for policy makers in the creation and subsequent scaling of the SEIU 775 Training Partnership.
The proposal was based on an analysis of the failings of the then existing training model and infrastructure in Washington. The report provide a core resource for policy makers in the creation and subsequent scaling of the SEIU 775 Training Partnership.
In 1993, Glenn wrote a chapter in this graduate school textbook titled, "Dissolution of Survival: The University of Bridgeport ansd the Unification Church". Nonprofit Boards and Leadership provides a rare behind-the-scenes view of the inner workings of real-life boardrooms.
Based on actual examples from such prestigious organizations as The United Way of Massachusetts Bay, The California Medical Center, The University of Bridgeport, and the AIDS Los Angeles Project—this unique book offers detailed case studies that demonstrate the crucial strategic issues facing nonprofit governing boards.
These and other compelling case studies have been contributed by leading scholars in the nonprofit field. The scenarios are based on real events and issues that actual board members have grappled with and solved.