1. 2015 Chamber Strategies to Reduce Poverty Sept 17, 2015

2. VISION: Austin to have the country’s most prosperous business community MISSION: Provide leadership that facilitates the creation of a prosperous regional economy and effective advocacy for its Partners CORE PURPOSE: The Austin Chamber takes on the biggest challenges so you can focus on growing your business VALUES: Results-Driven, Open, Transparent, Empowered, Flexible, Collaborative

3. Austin MSA Unemployed Drops 10k Source: Texas Workforce Commission

4. Poverty Rate Dropping Source: City of Austin, Travis County and Workforce Solutions Capital Area Board

5. Degree Mismatch Austin MSA 46k 46k Available Jobs Source: The Conference Board Help Wanted Online ® (HWOL) and Workforce Solutions Capital Area Board 36k 36k Unemployed

6. Austin MSA Source: The Conference Board Help Wanted Online ® (HWOL), Wanted Analytics and Workforce Solutions Capital Area Board 83% 83% of Unemployed do not qualify for 64%-70% 64%-70% of Available Jobs

7. What Are The Job Openings? SOURCE: THE CONFERENCE BOARD HELP WANTED ONLINE ® (HWOL)

8. CenTex, State Direct College Enrollment Rate Flat, Lags Nation www.austinchamber.com

9. Operation Austin

10. Regional IT Degrees Source: National Center for Education Statistics (NCES)

11. ACC IT Certifications Source: National Center for Education Statistics (NCES)

12. ACC CE IT Enrollment FY 2014 -2015 Open Enrollment IT Courses/Programs Apple- 13 Cisco - 97 Fiber Optics - 49 Information Security - 53 JAVA - 188 Linux/UNIX - 39 Microsoft - 57 Computer Applications - 237 Oracle - 60 PC Technician - 193 Visual Communication & Desktop Publishing - 18 VmWare - 26 Webmaster - 440 Total student headcount - 1,470 (to date for the fiscal year) We do not have completion rates. At completion of course, a grade is recorded (S or U) so completion rates could be available with IT's assistance/cooperation in writing a program to extract the information. Other information could also be extracted such as ethnicity and gender. Students, if they choose, test for Industry Certification outside of course time at a testing center. We are not privy to that information unless the student chooses to share the results. JAVA Program Statistics: 85 Students have enrolled in the Java courses since its inception (unduplicated headcount enrollment) 37 students have either completed or are enrolled in the JAVA series 16 students have completed and passed the Java series, including a successful presentation of their capstone project.

13. Workforce Investment $10M $10M Workforce Solutions Source: City of Austin, Travis County and Workforce Solutions Capital Area Board $5M $5M City of Austin $2M $2M Travis County

14. Workforce Development $17M $17M Annual Investment Source: City of Austin, Travis County and Workforce Solutions Capital Area Board 282 282 Certifications Earned