Bob Giloth

Background

About Bob Giloth

Forty years of on-the-ground experience and thought leadership in promoting job creation, workforce development and neighborhood revitalization. Designed multi-year, multi-site initiatives, developed new approaches for advancing family economic opportunity, and published widely on theory, practice and lessons of community economic development. My career has been anchored in working in low-income neighborhoods and with and for innovative nonprofits, local governments and foundations.Major Projects: Casey Jobs Initiative, National Fund for Workforce Solutions, Working Poor Family Project, Family Economic Success, and advancing Two Generation Strategies for Enhancing Family OpportunityCurrent Projects• Designing and starting up new approaches for advancing economic opportunities for youth and young adults• Advocating evidence building and policy support for two-generation strategies to help families develop skills and resources to move ahead.• Documenting and analyzing new philanthropic roles and investments in promoting economic development, collective impact for workforce development, and racial equity in jobs strategies.Key Recent Publications• Connecting People to Work (with Maureen Conway)• Mistakes to Success (with Colin Austin)• Nonprofit Enterprising Practitionerf. Links•