The Skills Initiative is an Idea Worth Stealing

Cait Garozzo was gobsmacked.

As the executive director of West Philly’s Skills Initiative, Garozzo runs a relatively small, Philly-based workforce training and development program. They’d recently gotten some national buzz — especially after receiving a $4 million grant from philanthropist MacKenzie Scott, ex-wife of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, last year — but for the most part, “our good news does not get shouted as loudly,” Garozzo says.

Yet, there she was, at last month’s Clinton Global Initiative’s annual meeting in New York City, “sitting in a room with hundreds of people from across the world that I’m in awe of.” Walking through the halls she might have passed California Governor Gavin Newsom, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Maria Ressa, or even the Clintons themselves. Philanthropi