Global Ready Career Pathways

What work do we support?

This grantmaking category supports strategic, field-building efforts that help Career and Technical Education programs strengthen their capacity to integrate global competence and global learning into policy, teaching, and student experiences. Funded projects should address clear gaps in educator development, curriculum, partnerships, and work-based learning.

Priority will be given to initiatives that embed global perspectives into CTE organizational missions and institutional strategic plans; support organizational/educator learning and collaboration; integrate global learning into professional development, coursework and co-curricular activities; and expand access to virtual, local, and international work-based learning opportunities.

Building on the foundation’s existing investments, this category extends global learning into career pathways and workforce preparation. Emphasis is placed on practical, scalable approaches that can be sustained beyond the grant period and shared across institutions.

Who qualifies to apply?

• State and District Education Agencies and Coalitions
• Nonprofits serving large numbers of educators/schools/students across a state/district or across the United States

Preparing Tomorrow’s Workforce
This paper from the Center for Global Education at Asia Society, in partnership with AACC, ACTE, Advance CTE, and the Longview Foundation, seeks to demonstrate the need for community and technical college administrators and faculty to offer a curriculum with an intentional global education component, particularly within its CTE programs. This paper offers insight and examples from community and technical colleges committed to this charge. The examples in this paper are intended to support community and technical colleges and their faculty as they seek to integrate global competence into existing CTE course content to lead future generations of students into twenty-first-century careers.