EVERYONE CAN ADAPT AND THRIVE IN THE FUTURE OF WORK
Founded in 2025, TechSmart Learning Fund’s mission is to empower a learner-centered workforce that drives US economic opportunity and growth.
TechSmart Learning Fund was founded in response to the booming US growth in highly technical roles that represent economically mobile pathways for many under-engaged and under-employed Americans. The US government has prioritized a historic commitment to advanced manufacturing, artificial intelligence, and energy infrastructure through policies such as the CHIPS and Science Act and the American AI Leadership Plan. By leveraging these public investments with private sector partnership, TechSmart endeavors to lift Americans, starting in Arizona, to access the education and training needed to meet the moment.
TechSmart serves as an intermediary that can incentivize and coordinate stronger collaboration between government, education, and industry to rally around a shared regional vision, goals, strategies, and data. TechSmart seeks to partner with investors to innovate and build an ecosystem that is accessible by all learners. The initiative includes K-12 student engagement, STEM/CTE educator professional development, and workforce development initiatives leading to high-value credentials and degrees such as apprenticeships and work-based learning in emerging high-tech industries.
Goal 1:
Leverage the moment through the CHIPS and Science Act, growth in artificial intelligence, and bipartisan political will around national security to establish a workforce development coalition and a statewide communications initiative.
Goal 2:
Establish and scale STEM pathways to increase credential and degree attainment in high-tech industries, including semiconductors, biotech, aerospace, and clean energy, including CTE, apprenticeships, and stackable credentials, as well as reskilling and upskilling for lifelong learning.
Goal 3:
Create data infrastructure to identify existing points of success, gaps, and needs by connecting workforce, education, and industry data into a unified system focused on learner outcomes and economic mobility.
Goal 4:
Partner with other states to scale best practices and evaluate outcomes of existing programs and initiatives providing pathways into high-tech careers.
