LearnUp, Corporate Voices, and California Community Colleges announced a partnership to address the skills gap in the United States. LearnUp will provide its online job skills training platform to over 100,000 community college students and employers will share job training content. This will help students gain in-demand skills and connect directly to employers. The partnership aims to help community colleges align their programs with employers' evolving needs in real-time to solve the skills gap problem.

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LearnUp, Corporate Voices, and California Community Colleges
Team up to Solve the Skills Gap
In partnership with leading employers, commitment will help address the skills gap in the United
States, spur job growth, and aid economic recovery.
CHICAGO, IL - June 8, 2012 –LearnUp, a technology startup in Palo Alto, CA, today announced its
commitment to action at the Clinton Global Initiative America (CGI America) meeting to enable national
and global employers to share job training content online with job seekers, including over 100,000 students
at community colleges throughout California. LearnUp will partner with the California Community
Colleges and Corporate Voices for Working Families to help community college students gain the in-
demand skills employers need and connect directly with employers for employment opportunities.
LearnUp is a real-time, online job skills training platform that offers a breakthrough approach for job
seekers to learn skills from employers and professionals, track progress on a “skills resume,” and receive
job offers. An example includes training content for copy center associate jobs from Staples and sales
associate roles from Gap. Leading employers, including Staples, Safeway, Gap, KPMG LLP, Prudential,
TeleTech, and others, are already using LearnUp’s site.
There are 25 million unemployed and underemployed Americans, and a very high youth unemployment
rate. Yet 52% of U.S. employers report difficulty filling jobs due to lack of available talent. In today’s
economy, the skills required in the workforce are changing so dynamically that it’s hard for job seekers to
know which skills are in demand.
LearnUp’s innovative platform makes it easy for employers to communicate their needs directly with job
seekers and educational institutions like the California Community Colleges. This transparency of needs in
real-time enables the LearnUp platform to serve as a “virtual employer advisory board” and help guide the
California Community Colleges and Corporate Voices’ emerging programs to aggregate skills requirements
by specific industry sectors, including retail, technology and others, and to align offerings to truly meet the
needs of business.
“LearnUp has the potential to not only bridge the skills gap for employers but to also offer content
guidance to our community college partners. Our corporate members look to us for best practice business
solutions and we think this partnership will help serve their talent needs,” says John Wilcox, Executive
Director, Corporate Voices.
“Working with LearnUp and Corporate Voices gives us greater visibility into the evolving skill sets and
needs of a specific industry sector,” said Van Ton-Quinlivan, Vice Chancellor of Workforce and Economic
Development of California’s Community Colleges. “LearnUp offers a fresh and innovative approach to
how business and education can work together to close the skills gap. Doing what matters for jobs and the
economy means using real-time labor market information and leveraging platforms such as LearnUp, which
allow the Community Colleges to align their instruction with the needs of business in mind,” Ton-Quinlivan
said.

2. “We’re excited to partner with community colleges and employers to build the skills of the workforce,”
stated Alexis Ringwald, co-founder and CEO of LearnUp. “We see the ability to apply this platform to any
employer whose skill needs are no longer static, including technology, retail, healthcare, advanced
manufacturing, energy, and more. Our technology connects people with the 21st century skills that
employers demand, and with the support of our partners, serves as a real solution to our country’s skills
gap.”
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About LearnUp
LearnUp is a real-time job skills training platform that connects job-seekers and employers. On the site, job seekers
can learn skills from employers and professionals, track progress on a “skills resume,” and receive job offers.
LearnUp, a technology startup based in Palo Alto, CA, was founded by Alexis Ringwald, CEO, and Kenny Ma, CTO.
For further information, contact Alexis Ringwald at hello@learnup.me, visit www.learnup.me or follow us on Twitter
at @LearnUp.
About the CA Community Colleges
The California Community Colleges is the largest system of higher education in the nation composed of 72 districts
and 112 colleges serving 2.6 million students per year. Community colleges supply workforce training, basic skills
education and prepare students for transfer to four-year institutions. The Chancellor’s Office provides leadership,
advocacy and support under the direction of the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges. For more
information about the community colleges, please visit http://californiacommunitycolleges.cccco.edu/.
Additional information: Questions about integration or navigation should be directed to communications@cccco.edu.
About Corporate Voices for Working Families
Corporate Voices for Working Families is the leading national business membership organization shaping
conversations and collaborations on public and corporate policy issues involving working families. A nonprofit,
nonpartisan organization, Corporate Voices creates and advances innovative policy solutions that reflect a
commonality of interests among the private sector both global and domestic, government and other stakeholders.
Corporate Voices is a unique voice that provides leading and best-practice employers a forum to improve the lives of
working families, while strengthening our nation’s economy and enhancing the vitality of our
communities. Publications, research studies and toolkits on a host of workforce readiness, workplace flexibility, family
economic stability and work and family balance issues are available online at http://www.corporatevoices.org.
About CGI America
President Clinton established the Clinton Global Initiative America (CGI America) to address economic recovery in
the United States. CGI America brings together leaders in business, government, and civil society to generate and
implement commitments to create jobs, stimulate economic growth, foster innovation, and support workforce
development in the United States. Since its first meeting in June 2011, CGI America participants have made more than
100 commitments valued at $11.8 billion. When fully funded and implemented, these commitments will improve the
lives of three million people, create or fill more than 150,000 jobs, and invest and loan $354 million to small and
medium enterprises in the United States. The 2012 CGI America meeting will take place June 7-8 in Chicago. To learn
more, visit www.cgiamerica.org.
About the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI)
Established in 2005 by President Bill Clinton, the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) convenes global leaders to create
and implement innovative solutions to the world’s most pressing challenges. CGI Annual Meetings have brought
together more than 150 heads of state, 20 Nobel Prize laureates, and hundreds of leading CEOs, heads of foundations
and NGOs, major philanthropists, and members of the media. To date CGI members have made more than 2,100
commitments, which are already improving the lives of nearly 400 million people in more than 180 countries. When
fully funded and implemented, these commitments will be valued at $69.2 billion.
CGI’s Annual Meeting is held each September in New York City. CGI also convenes CGI America, a meeting focused
on collaborative solutions to economic recovery in the United States, and CGI University (CGI U), which brings
together undergraduate and graduate students to address pressing challenges in their community or around the world.
For more information, visit clintonglobalinitiative.org and follow us on Twitter @ClintonGlobal and Facebook
at facebook.com/clintonglobalinitiative.