Recognized for its role as a workforce intermediary, CEI was asked to participate in the 2003 102nd American Assembly, affiliated with Columbia University and sponsored by the Ford Foundation, the Annie E. Casey Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, and the Open Society Institute-Baltimore.

This conference brought together 75 national experts from business, labor, government, education, philanthropy, nonprofit organizations, and workforce development to develop recommendations for private and public action to "help workers advance, helping businesses fill critical job shortages, and ultimately changing" systems to strengthen regional and national economic development."

The final report of this event is here:  http://www.opportunitiesatwork.org/robertgiloth.htm