Shouldn’t Virginia’s businesses have a stake in shaping the caliber of their future workers? We think so, which is why VECF, with support from Pew Center for the States, provides leadership to VA JOB ONE – an initiative implemented in 2009-2010 to encourage the corporate community to embrace school readiness as a tool for creating and maintaining a strong workforce for Virginia’s future.
VA JOB ONE has built a network of over 200 business leaders from across the Commonwealth to advance Virginia’s school readiness efforts.
“The continual enhancement of skills over time is essential to sustained growth in economic well-being, and research indicates that childhood development is critical to the life-long development of skills.”
Jeffrey Lacker, President, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond