WORKNOW facilitates community-centered hiring on infrastructure projects to improve economic self-sufficiency for local residents and to provide project contractors with a pipeline of local workers in craft and professional service positions. Through an alliance of existing organizations that integrate training and community resources to support comprehensive construction career readiness, WORKNOWensures that working families living in communities directly affected by enterprise economic development projects benefit from those project opportunities.To achieve this objective, WORKNOW operational strategies include: Find and prepare workforce for construction industry opportunities—including craft, office and professional service Integrate and scale supportive services, particularly access to child care to support working families with effective and seamless navigation assistance Resolve barriers that prevent people of color and women from finding and keeping good construction jobs Provide technical assistance and best practice dissemination to drive policy and practice to foster inclusive economies and effective career-building pathways WORKNOW emerged from a series of stakeholder roundtable sessions hosted by the Colorado Department of Transportation. The partnership addresses several issues impacting workforce service delivery, including: High duplication of efforts Limited shared measures of success Siloed funding environments and limited alignment across work support and training organizations Low-income working parents being stalled by service barriers Local employers unsure how to find and build skilled workers Substantial shortage of construction workers needed to deliver projects according to project schedules and budgets