Building a talent base to drive prosperity.
The Metro Denver WIRED Initiative was largely funded through a four-year federal grant from the U.S. Department of Labor. The grant started in early 2006 and finished at the end of January 2010. The vision of WIRED, creating a home-grown skilled workforce for the region’s fastest growing high-wage industries, is being sustained through the various programs the grant funded and the many partnerships the grant helped create. Information about these programs can be found on this Web site.
The Metro Denver (Workforce Innovation in Regional Economic Development) WIRED Initiative was a partnership among industry, workforce, education, and economic development in the nine-county Metro Denver region.
WIRED and its partners implemented transformational and sustainable changes in our education and workforce systems to enhance our region’s global competitiveness. WIRED strengthened the talent pipeline at all levels to produce a workforce skilled in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) for some of the region’s fastest growing, high-wage, industries that were identified as having the greatest potential for labor shortages – aerospace, bioscience, energy, and information technology-software.
Funded partially by a four-year, $15 million grant from the U.S. Department of Labor, WIRED invested in 26 programs that enhanced partnerships among business, education, and the public workforce system, as well as promoted STEM education in our schools. WIRED also built upon existing partnerships and leveraged public and private funding to sustain its work well beyond the life of the grant.
Learn more about the Metro Denver WIRED and the national WIRED initiative.
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