Partnership
Partnership
Why Partner with ARS WorkAbility?
Joining the ARS WorkAbility partnership network means your organization gains immediate access to infrastructure, technology, and a collaborative community that would take years to build alone. Here’s what becomes possible when we work together:
A Bigger Client Pool
Tap into a growing, shared database of job seekers from across partnering organizations—expanding your reach without expanding your overhead.
A Shared Employer Network
Access WorkOnward and ARS’s network of inclusive, disadvantaged-community-friendly employers—pre-vetted, relationship-ready, and actively hiring.
Seamless Platform Tools
Use ARS WorkAbility’s built-in website infrastructure, referral workflows, LMS training modules, and job-matching tools under your partnership umbrella.
The Power of Shared Resources
When workforce nonprofits collaborate on a unified platform, the impact multiplies. Here is what the ARS WorkAbility partnership network enables for every member organization:
A Deeper, More Diverse Client Database
Each partner organization contributes to and benefits from a collective pool of job seeker profiles, intake data, and referral pipelines. Rather than competing for the same limited grant-funded caseloads, partner organizations grow the total network—creating more pathways for every disadvantaged community member seeking employment services.
Higher-Quality Job Matching
The more organizations share data and employer connections through the platform, the more precise and effective job-matching becomes. A job seeker working with one partner organization can benefit from employer relationships established by another. Better matches mean better retention—and better outcomes for funders and communities alike.
Shared Training Infrastructure
Partner organizations gain access to the ARS Online Learning Management System (LMS)—a library of workforce readiness, soft skills, digital literacy, and wellness-to-work modules—without the cost and complexity of building their own. Your clients get more. Your staff does less redundant work.
Warm Referrals, Not Cold Handoffs
Through the ARS WorkAbility platform, partner organizations can make warm, tracked referrals to each other’s services—ensuring clients don’t fall through the cracks when they need specialized support beyond any one agency’s scope. Community wellness outreach, vocational rehabilitation, housing supports, and employer engagement all connect through a single coordinated system.
Upscaled Service Capacity Without Upscaled Costs
By joining a shared infrastructure, your organization can serve more clients, offer a broader range of services, and report stronger outcomes—without proportionally increasing staff, technology, or administrative costs. The platform handles what would otherwise require a full in-house operations team.
Local Community Focus. Nationwide Network Strength.
ARS WorkAbility is built on a simple but powerful idea: workforce services work best when they are deeply embedded in the communities they serve. Like a neighborhood-level network, every partner organization activates the platform within their own local market—using their community relationships, cultural competencies, and trusted presence to deliver services that feel personal, not institutional.
At the same time, every local partner contributes to and draws from a platform that spans cities, counties, and states. Your organization’s job seekers benefit from employer connections built in another community. Your employer partnerships open doors for job seekers served by partner agencies in your region. The whole network grows stronger because every local node makes it more connected.
Think Locally. Serve More Broadly.
Just as Nextdoor connects neighbors to resources in their immediate community while operating as a national platform, ARS WorkAbility connects workforce nonprofits to job seekers, employers, and resources in their local market—while scaling that impact through a shared national infrastructure. Your community. Amplified
Who We’re Looking for as Partners
We are actively seeking workforce development nonprofits and agencies that share our commitment to serving disadvantaged communities with excellence, equity, and cultural responsiveness. Ideal partners include:
- Workforce development nonprofits serving individuals with disabilities, immigrants, refugees, or other employment barriers
- State-certified Department of Rehabilitation (DOR) vendors and vocational rehabilitation service providers
- WIOA Title I, Title II, and Title IV service providers and workforce innovation partners
- Community-based organizations (CBOs) with active outreach programs ready to connect wellness-engaged clients to employment services
- Job training and adult education organizations seeking employer placement channels for their graduates
- Housing, behavioral health, and re-entry nonprofits whose clients need workforce readiness and job placement services
- Cultural or ethnic-specific service organizations serving AANHPI, Latino, Black, and other underrepresented communities
If your organization is already doing meaningful workforce work in your community, ARS WorkAbility gives you the tools, the network, and the platform to do even more.
How the Partnership Works: A Simple, Collaborative Model
We are actively seeking workforce development nonprofits and agencies that share our commitment to serving disadvantaged communities with excellence, equity, and cultural responsiveness. Ideal partners include:
Join the Network
Complete a partnership inquiry and alignment review. We match your organization’s services, geography, and populations served to the ARS WorkAbility network to confirm a strong fit.
Onboard to the Platform
Your organization is set up within the ARS WorkAbility website and referral system. Staff are oriented on the LMS, the Work Onward job placement tool, and the shared client referral workflows.
Contribute & Access the Shared Database
Your job seekers enter the shared pool—and your organization gains access to a broader database of clients, employer connections, and training resources from across the partner network.
Refer, Collaborate & Co-Serve
Use the platform to make warm referrals, co-enroll shared clients, and connect your participants to specialized services offered by other partner organizations—and receive referrals in return.
Report Stronger Outcomes Together
The platform aggregates outcomes across partner organizations, giving each partner richer data to report to funders, boards, and public agencies—and demonstrating the collective impact of the network.
If your organization is already doing meaningful workforce work in your community, ARS WorkAbility gives you the tools, the network, and the platform to do even more.
What Your Organization Gains by Joining
We are actively seeking workforce development nonprofits and agencies that share our commitment to serving disadvantaged communities with excellence, equity, and cultural responsiveness. Ideal partners include:
Access to a Ready-Built Platform
Stop spending organizational resources building systems from scratch. The ARS WorkAbility website, LMS, referral infrastructure, and job placement tools are already built and operational. You simply plug in and start using them.
A Larger, More Diverse Client Base
Your organization’s reach expands immediately through the shared partner database—giving your job developers, case managers, and placement staff more clients to serve and more successful placements to report.
Shared Employer Relationships
Access ARS WorkAbility’s pre-established employer network through WorkOnward—connecting your clients to inclusive employers who are already educated on hiring from disadvantaged communities and are actively seeking qualified candidates.
Greater Funder Credibility
Funders want to see collaborative, systems-level impact. Membership in the ARS WorkAbility network strengthens your organization’s grant applications by demonstrating cross-sector partnerships, shared infrastructure, and measurable collective outcomes.
A Community of Practice
Join a network of like-minded workforce professionals sharing best practices, employer intelligence, training resources, and community knowledge—reducing organizational isolation and increasing staff support.
If your organization is already doing meaningful workforce work in your community, ARS WorkAbility gives you the tools, the network, and the platform to do even more.
What Our Partners Say
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Ready to Build Something Bigger, Together?
If your organization is committed to improving employment outcomes for disadvantaged communities, we want to hear from you. Let’s explore how ARS WorkAbility can strengthen what you’re already doing—and what we can accomplish together that neither of us could do alone.
Start a Partnership Conversation
- info@arsworkability.org
- arsworkability.org
- (562)-632-1141 ext. 9
- 750 E Green Street, Suite 301, Pasadena, CA 91101
Reach out to our Partnership Development team to schedule a discovery call, request a platform overview, or explore a formal partnership agreement. We respond to all partnership inquiries within 2 business days.