Business Collaboration & Workforce Development
The Promise’s Workforce Development Team is an education-to-career intermediary for Kalamazoo Promise Scholars. The WDT provides Kalamazoo’s private industry with opportunities to engage with Promise Scholars, to help prepare our youth and young adults for jobs in the community. The WDT works with community-minded employers who have an interest in ensuring Kalamazoo’s future workers have the skills, tools, and resources needed to succeed in good jobs.
How can you Partner with The Promise?
Are you a business hoping to offer internships, shadowing, or job experience to Scholars? Think your business could serve as a resource for students who are in search of their path? Businesses are one of the Promise’s most important resources and community partners. See where you fit in!
Higher Promise
For Promise Scholars
Get connected to paid internships, jobs, & a connection of Scholars in Kalamazoo!
For Business Partners
Sign-up for Higher Promise, and other opportunities to partner with The Promise!
What We Do
Prepare Scholars for the Workforce
The Kalamazoo Promise’s Workforce Development Team collaborates with community-based organizations and public partners to develop work-ready Promise Alumni by connecting Kalamazoo Promise Scholars with work readiness, career exposure, and employment opportunities that align with the needs of area employers in growth industries.
Industry Networks
The WDT partners with MiWorks Southwest, Kalamazoo Valley Community College, and Southwest Michigan First to align resources and strategies. The WDT participates in the following convenings: Manufacturing Career Consortium, Healthcare Career Consortium, & IT/Tech Industry Consortium.
See Our Business Partners
Partner with The Promise
Sound like something your business could be interested in? Click the button below to learn how we might work together.