Microsoft Elevate America is a Microsoft initiative designed to provide vouchers for Microsoft e-Learning courses and select Microsoft Certification exams at no cost to recipients.

Vouchers for this program will be available soon through the NOVA Workforce Board.

Click here for more information.

NOVA's quarterly Report to the Consortium Cities newsletter is a compilation of local workforce, economic development, and education-related news and resources, and other information relevant to NOVA's seven consortium cities: Cupertino, Los Altos, Milpitas, Mountain View, Palo Alto, Santa Clara, and Sunnyvale.

Click here to download the PDF version of this newsletter (548KB).

The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) was signed into law by President Obama on February 17, 2009.  This economic stimulus package totals nearly $790 billion in funding and is intended to provide the foundation and springboard for Silicon Valley’s recovery and our country’s prosperity. 

Of the $2.9 billion being distributed by the U.S. Department of Labor through ARRA, NOVA has received $2.9 million, as well as an additional $1.8 million of "Rapid Response" monies to provide immediate assistance to companies facing layoffs within NOVA’s seven-city region.

Much of this funding has and will continue to supplement NOVA’s existing training resources, while more than $1 million has been used to expand NOVA’s successful summer youth employment program, providing 200 youth from throughout northern Santa Clara County with work-readiness training, work experience, and additional services.

For more information about the Recovery Act, please visit the federal site at www.recovery.gov and California’s website at www.recovery.ca.gov.

NOVA recently celebrated its 25th anniversary and produced a video to share the evolution of the organization and the Valley.

• Click here to link to the first part, hosted on YouTube.
• Click here for the second segment.

NOVA—the organization, its staff, and its board members—are frequently mentioned in the press.

For a list of articles in which NOVA staff or board members are quoted or NOVA or the CONNECT! one-stop system are referenced, click here.

Workforce Review

The Workforce Review provides a monthly review of labor market statistics and related information for northern Santa Clara County.

• 2009 Five-Year Retrospective issue (PDF)
• Workforce Review Archives