CIWI 2025
2025 Accomplishments = Our 14th Year of Impact: “Access + Exposure = Opportunities”
CIWI completed 21 internships in 2025, achieving a 14-year total of creating hands-on work experience for over 200 interns.
CIWI Recruitment Partner with General Contractors
2025 marked CIWI’s fourth year of being a key recruitment partner for many of the Bay Area’s largest Construction General Contractors (GC). CIWI solicits and screens interns to place them in full-time summer internships (40 hours per week) with their GC sponsors..
ULI-San Francisco Partnership.
2025 marks five years of partnering with the Urban Land Institute (ULI), San Francisco District Council. This collaboration generates CIWI internships with ULI member organizations and opens doors to a wide array of ULI education, events and professional development opportunities for CIWI and its interns.
Workforce. Technical Skill Development+Civic Engagement/Sustainability (CE+S). CIWI interns secured over 8,400 hours in technical skills developments and introduction to Civic Engagement and Sustainability (CE+S) learning and job site walks.
Expanded Collaboration and Partnerships with PUC. As stated previously, CIWI secured a 2025 PUC/PLG grant, totaling over $90,000, three-year grant: 2025-2027.
PUC/PLG Grant. Innovative Workforce Program to Expand our Workforce Ladder. Targeted Learning Modules/Site Visit and Study Sessions.
CIWI has created an innovative workforce learning program for our Year 1 program including studying 4 to 5 public/private developments in SF, including:
- PUC/2000 Marin Street (Clark Construction)
- Power Station (Developer and Webcor)
- SFO/T3 (Turner Construction Company)
- 160 Freelon (Cahill Construction)
PUC/PLG Grant. Innovative Workforce Program to Expand our Workforce Ladder. CIWI is in the process of creating and in Q1 2026 will formerly implement our Year 1 PUC PLG grant deliverable—delivering over 20 hours of learning for young adults with the goal that they convert their interest in PUC/PLG learning—into a formal CIWI 2026 internship opportunity.
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Major Accomplishments - 2025
The Construction Industry Workforce Initiative (CIWI) is a partnership of private sector construction and real estate development companies committed to expanding opportunities and enhancing the diversity of the construction industry workforce with an emphasis in the following fields: Construction, Real Estate Development, Architecture and Engineering, Civic Engagement, and Urban Design.
CIWI is a program of Community Initiatives.