President Obama named Brad Keywell, Co-Founder of Groupon and LightBank and Founder and Chairman of Chicago Ideas Week, to the board of Skills for America's Future. The new board members from Chicago include Motorola Solutions Chief Executive Greg Brown; Ellen Alberding, president of The Joyce Foundation; and Penny Pritzker.
Skills for America’s Future is a program designed to give community college students training for manufacturing jobs. The Aspen Institute and The Manufacturing Institute, the non-profit arm of the National Association of Manufacturers, launched the program last year.
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