SkillUp Washington (also known as The Seattle King County Workforce Education Collaborative) is a pioneering partnership of nonprofit organizations, community colleges, employers, private foundations and public and private agencies working together to help low-income working adults and employers meet the demands of a changing economy.

Partners meet on a monthly basis. Investing partners donate both time and resources and have contributed over $2,000,000 in order to roll out and/or complete the partnership’s key initiatives.

Funders include:

The Seattle Foundation
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
The Medina Foundation
Northwest Area Foundation
BuRSST for Prosperity (a partnership with NW Area Foundation)
United Way of King County
Microsoft Corporation
City of Seattle Office of Economic Development
King County Department of Community & Human Services
Washington State Board for Community and Technical Colleges
Washington State Training and Education Coordinating Board
The White Center Community Development Association 
National Fund for Workforce Solutions
Jobs for the Future
Living Cities

For general information about SkillUp Washington, please contact:

Danielle Sewell, Program Coordinator
Ph: 206-388-1650
E-Mail: danielles@skillupwa.org

Key Partners who work with SkillUp Washington to achieve our goals are:

King County Worker Retraining Program
Port Jobs
Seattle Jobs Initiative
Seattle King County Workforce Development Council

Key Consultants:

Business Government Community Connections
Future Works
Guenther Media
Heliotrope
LavaLobe
Organizational Research Services