National Skills Coalition is a broad-based coalition working toward a vision of an America that grows its economy by investing in its people so that every worker and every industry has the skills to compete and prosper. National Skills Coalition engages in organizing, advocacy, and communications to advance state and federal policies that support these goals – policies that are based on the on-the-ground expertise of the members.

National Skills Coalition was founded in 1998 as The Workforce Alliance in response to a series of federal policies that signaled the end of national investments in the skills of America’s workers at a time when skill gaps were growing in key U.S. industries. Since then, they have demonstrated that investments in skills work. They have shown that diverse stakeholders can find agreement around specific reforms that will improve a variety of workforce education and training policies. And National Skills Coalition has documented that the American public is strongly supportive of a deeper investment in the skills of America’s workers. National Skills Coalition continues to mobilize support for a new national skills agenda that cuts across public policies, and simultaneously serves a wide range of U.S. workers and industries.

National Skills Coalition is governed by a Board of Directors drawn from the ranks of business, labor, community colleges, community-based organizations, and the public workforce system.

More than 3,200 members, representing more than 1,400 organizations in over 43 states, comprise the broad-based membership of National Skills Coalition.