That learning cluster is now in its third year and we ll have the final outcomes and lessons learned ready to disseminate about a year from now. The Aspen Institute is presently publishing individual project case studies. The second sectoral employment learning cluster is composed of ten less mature interventions. The other five programs in the cluster are aimed at making a job that a low-income person already has access to better paying. The second demonstration is more centered on identifying and implementing the systemic change grantees are trying to achieve.
Several grantees are already well on their way to creating that change.
We also wanted to test the theory that if change is created, does the particular intervention, whether creating wage mobility or increasing incomes, continue over time and affect a significant number of people through the systemic change process. It doesn t square too well. I feel pretty much out of date in that regard. I do believe in giving general-purpose grants, but after I know the grantee and what they can accomplish. My major worry is accountability from a general-purpose grantee.