This booklet presents 12 examples of innovative initiatives to skill shortages nationwide. The description of each one provides this information: the challenge, partners, the story, and contacts with addresses and telephone numbers. The initiatives are Communications Workers of America and Cisco Systems: Military to Work Project; Knowbility and Powershift Group: Accessibility Internet Rally; Bell Atlantic Corporation and Northeast Career Planning: Train for 2000; Turner Jobs Corps Center and Albany State University: EXPECTS SUCCESS; Women Unlimited and Maine Department of Transportation: Connecting Women to Jobs in Construction; Home Builders Institute, National Association of Home Builders Women's Council, and Pozzi Window Co.: Cornerstone Project; ELTECH Systems Corporation: Cross-Training Full-Time Employees To Create a More Flexible Workforce; International Association of Machinists and the Boeing Co.: Quality through Training Program; City of Baltimore, Maryland and Civic Works: Community Improvement Teams; WomenVenture, Minnesota Teamsters Service Bureau, and Auto Dealerships: Increasing Women's Representation in Automobile Service Jobs; UPS, State of Kentucky, University of Louisville, Jefferson Technical College, and Jefferson Community College: Metropolitan College Program; and Paraprofessional Healthcare Institute and Home Care Associates of Philadelphia: Training and Retention Program. (YLB)