Sectoral employment programs have been launched by many types of organizations, including community development corporations, community organizing groups and social service agencies. However, most successful sectoral programs have been launched by mature organizations with successes in other areas. Analyzing labor markets and designing strategies require sophisticated skills and judgment. Sectoral programs must provide high quality services to maintain their reputation and usefulness to businesses. Another factor is institutional culture.
Sectoral programs have to act and think like businesses to be effective.
Many nonprofit organizations have culture and value dilemmas in catering so strongly to business needs. At a more practical level, sectoral employment strategies take much time and many resources to research, design and implement. Once initiated, the program s growth and development is likely to be slow, depending on how quickly the organization can recruit businesses and other institutions. Thus, sectoral employment strategies lend themselves to highly capable organizations which can mobilize significant resources. Highly capable leaders who can operate in both the business and low-income neighborhood worlds are fairly rare.