The SkillsNET Foundation is a tax-exempt charitable nonprofit started for social services and educational purposes. The Foundation provides both direct and in-direct services to assist at-risk and marginalized populations. These populations include, among others, youth transitioning from the foster care and juvenile justice systems as well as single parents, the unemployed, and the homeless. Some of the services provided by the SkillsNET Foundation are:

• to provide employability development skills for at risk teens and adults and to work, when appropriate, in collaboration with government entities and educational institutions that are targeting those populations
• to build the capacity of churches, faith based ministries, and community based organizations involved in ministries to the homeless, the un-employed, teens aging out of foster care, incarcerated parents, and mothers without partners
• to bridge the digital divide by offering internet access and computer training for at-risk populations in our service area and by supporting the development of learning centers in other areas and
• to provide research and assistance to child welfare agencies, private and public, that will help these agencies improve their staff competencies to enhance their services to children, youth, and families in need.

SkillsNET Enterprises and Michael Brown, Founder and CEO, provided the vision and start-up funding for the Foundation which is now a separate entity as a 501 C 3 agency. SkillsNET has a long history of investing in community services to those most in need, and the company continues that compassionate legacy with the development and launch of the SkillsNET Foundation. For more information on the SkillsNET Foundation, please visit our website at www.skillsnet.org

SkillsNET Europe was founded in 2005 in order to expand the SkillsNET’s cutting edge United States efforts to the European Union. Currently, SkillsNET partners with organizations in the United Kingdom, Belgium, Italy, Germany, Vienna, and Greece to implement standardized job profiling practices across the EU in an effort to gain understanding of workforce differences across countries and cultures. Some of the areas on which SkillsNET Europe focuses include:

• Creating a common competency framework across the EU that allows for certification portability between countries
• Development of E*NET, a database that would catalog major jobs and job families across the EU. This database would allow for comparison of common jobs across countries
• Studying labor market information, workforce mobility across borders, and job profile differences in similar jobs across countries
• Studying tacit knowledge, assessment of tacit and unconscious knowledge, and application of concepts to the workplace
• Competency and skill ontology best practices
• Partnership in E-Skills Standards Body

With offices in Brussels and London, SkillsNET Europe will expand to Austria and Germany in 2007.

SkillsNET Government is committed to strengthening the military and administrative personnel who lead and defend this great nation. Through innovative application of the SkillsNET suite of workforce analysis tools, SkillsNET helps ensure that the servicemen and women of the United States have the right skills, knowledge, and abilities to be successful in their endeavors. Our flexible, custom applications are used to quickly analyze the workforce of the defense industry, allowing the government to make expedient assessments and informed decisions to meet the rapidly changing demands of our nation.

Through its Research and Development efforts, SkillsNET Innovations strives to advance the science of occupational analysis and the integration and utilization of strategic work, worker, and workplace data in all aspects of business. Our commitment to creating new and innovative processes, algorithms, methodologies, and software applications is the driving force that allows us to empower and support both organizational leaders and applied scientists such as Industrial-Organizational Psychologists to meet their goals. Additionally, the research and development efforts yield new intellectual property, which supports the organization's products and serves as the basis for the next generation of products and services.

SkillsNET Publishing houses and distributes a number of informative and educational publications. Our library of works includes writings from the SkillsNET leadership team, Technical Advisory Board, industrial and organizational psychologists, and other leaders in the field of human capital management. Our expansive bibliography of books, articles, and documents, is filled with expert advice on many facets of workforce management, from high-level overviews of job analysis to specific instruction on SkillObject generation and use of SkillsNET’s suite of proprietary applications. For more information on our collection of industry-leading literature.