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SPOTLIGHT
WALMART BRIGHTER
FUTURES 3.0:
The Optimal Industry Partnership
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BY ANDREW MEYER
ith Walmart Brighter Futures, the League for Innovation in the Community
College continues its long history of leading workforce development
initiatives. Walmart Brighter Futures 3.0, the third iteration of this workforce
development project funded by the Walmart Foundation, focuses on career mobility for
incumbent retail workers, specifically by providing the core skills and knowledge needed
to move into management and leadership roles in the retail industry.
To meet the challenges of Walmart Brighter Futures 3.0, the League has partnered
with the Western Association of Food Chains (WAFC) to build its “gold standard” Retail
Management Certificate (RMC) into the project. Scaling the RMC to the entire retail sector
is the first of two overarching goals. The second major goal is to increase employer
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