| David
Gruber, co-founder of Gruber & Pereira, has advised
states, cities, foundations and employers around the country
in the area of workforce development. As a partner at Gruber
and Pereira, Mr Gruber helped create a national award winning
bio-tech training initiative to prepare dislocated workers
in the Bay Area for positions in Genentech, Bayer, and 15
other bio-technology employers in the region. This project,
developed in collaboration with three Bay Area counties,
has placed over 90% of participants and raised over $3 million
in federal, state and local funding. The bio-tech project
has led to a similar collaboration with a consortium of California
refineries and chemical firms including BP, ConocoPhillips,
Exxon-Mobil, Shell and Valero to replace an aging workforce
with newly trained dislocated workers and disadvantaged community
residents. Mr Gruber is also leading an effort, funded by
the Walter S Johnson Foundation, to create new programs to
assist disadvantaged youth and adults in succeeding in college.
Before forming Gruber & Pereira, Mr Gruber co-founded
the Workforce Strategy Center, a national non-profit
that has focused on building more effectives pathways
to college and career. Mr Gruber has also served as an
advisor to the James Irvine Foundation, Manpower, Public
Private Ventures, the Annie E Casey Foundation, the Mott
Foundation, Jobs for the Future, and the states of Delaware,
New York, and Missouri in creating more effective workforce
and education strategies. Mr Gruber has also had extensive
experience in Pennsylvania advising the Secretary of
Labor and cabinet level job committee on workforce and
educational reform.
Mr Gruber has degrees from Johns Hopkins and the Kennedy
School of Harvard University. He is an author of Generation
of Challenge, published by the Sar Levitan Center at
Johns Hopkins University.
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