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management tools, the Alliance compiles sector
best practices information arising informally
from member discussion forum and conference sessions,
as well as through formal studies.
| Charles Stewart Mott
Foundation Alternative Staffing Demonstration |
In 2003, the C.S. Mott Foundation embarked on a multi-phase demonstration aimed at helping alternative staffing programs enhance and refine their service models, and more clearly understanding how these programs serve job-seekers and business customers. Two reports released in January 2009 analyze the most recent findings about ASOs’ role in helping low-income, low-skilled job seekers overcome disadvantages in the labor market:
2009: Brokering Up: The Role of Temporary Staffing in Overcoming Labor Market Barriers
2009: A Foot in the Door: Using Alternative Staffing Organizations to Open Up Opportunities for Disadvantaged Workers
The next phase of the demonstration has begun and will run until 2011. For this demonstration, the Center for Social Policy (UMass Boston) will explore employment outcomes in more detail. First, it will examine the employment situation of workers six months from the time of their ASO assignment. Some workers continue work with the ASO and others move on; the study will explore what happens to both. Second, employment outcomes for the employees of these four ASOs will be placed in the context of outcomes for other low-income workers who have worked in the conventional staffing industry, using published information. The project will also study the motivations of customer businesses in greater depth and monitor the overall activities of four ASOs.
ASOs participating in the research are Emerge Staffing, Minneapolis; FirstSource Staffing, Brooklyn; Goodwill Staffing Services, Austin; and Goodwill Temporary Staffing in St. Petersburg, Florida. For details, please contact Center for Social Policy’s investigator Françoise Carré at Francoise.Carre@umb.edu.
Phase 1, 2003-2005, Alternative staffing connects people with jobs
Phase 2, 2005-2008, Project
seeks to help ‘temps’ achieve
long-term job stability
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Getting to Work: ICA's Social Purpose Staffing Companies,
2003, Susan Eisenberg
This case study
profiles the unique history and character
of three alternative staffing companies
in Boston, Brooklyn and Washington, DC,
and captures the key points common to their
experience and success. http://www.ica-group.org/gettingtowork.pdf
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New Avenues into Jobs: Early Lessons from Nonprofit
Temp Agencies and Employment Brokers, 1998 Dorie
Seavey, Ph.D.
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