Collaboration

COWS collaborates with other groups and institutions to conduct research and policy projects, address key public policy issues, and educate the general public about our work. To learn more about these efforts, click on the links below.

Advanced Manufacturing Project

A research consortium that investigates how suppliers of large equipment producers can stay competitive and preserve quality manufacturing jobs in the upper Midwest.

Apollo Alliance

A national campaign of labor, environmental, and civil rights organizations to create jobs through energy efficiency in communities across the country.

Center for State Innovation

Center for State Innovation is one of the leading organizations helping governors and state executives promote innovative, progressive policies that better the lives of the people they serve.

Economic Analysis and Research Network (EARN)

A network of scores of local, state, and national organizations that conduct research, policy, and educational work related to economic and labor market issues.

Governor's Consortium on Biobased Industry

From May 2005-July 2006, COWS served as a consultant to the Governor's Consortium on Biobased Industry. The Consortium was formed in May 2005 to recommend state goals and policies for the development of a Wisconsin bioeconomy, based on turning feedstocks such as crops, animal waste, and forest products into energy, fuel, and other marketable products.

Jobs With a Future

A collaborative partnership of employers and public-sector institutions that seeks to align and improve the workforce development system in South Central Wisconsin.

Labor in the New Energy Economy

The Labor in the New Energy Economy Project (LNEEP) helps labor leaders build strategies to promote workers’ interests as our society moves away from the polluting technologies of the past.

Mayors Innovation Project

The Mayors Innovation Project (MIP) is a learning network for mayors and their staff dedicated to developing ‘high road’ policies for American cities. MIP brings together research resources, policy innovations, and metropolitan leadership to create cities of shared prosperity, environmental responsibility, sound management, and democratic accountability.

Milwaukee Energy Efficiency (Me2)

Beginning in June 2007, COWS and the Milwaukee mayor’s office convened the Milwaukee Energy Efficiency (Me2), with representatives from government, business, labor, community groups, and philanthropy. Me2 is working to design and implement an innovative program that will allow small-property owners and even renters to install energy-saving measures in their homes and businesses.

Regional Industry Skills Education (RISE)

By promoting career pathways, Regional Industry Skills Education (RISE) works to create new routes from low-wage work to high-paying careers.

Wisconsin Regional Training Partnership

A Milwaukee-based consortium that brings together business, labor, the public sector, and community organizations to improve economic opportunities through plant modernization, job training, and employee recruitment, retention, and mentoring programs.

Working Poor Families Project

The Working Poor Families Project (WPFP) is a national initiative launched in 2002 to strengthen state policies that can better prepare America’s working families for a more secure economic future. WPFP is active in 23 states and the District of Columbia. COWS leads the project in Wisconsin.