Community Partner · Regional Workforce
The Fuente Workforce Alliance
Pueblo de la Fuente runs the low desert — its trades, its hospitality, its healthcare, its construction. The Alliance negotiates for thousands of workers who already know how to run complex systems, and won’t sign onto a beginner course.
Who We Are
The People Who Run the Valley the Enclaves Enjoy
Pueblo de la Fuente is the vibrant, predominantly Hispanic working community that is the economic engine of the low desert — landscapers, pool and HVAC technicians, the construction trades, hospitality and healthcare workers, real estate, kinesiologists, golf-course crews. The resorts and estates the region is known for cannot function for a single day without them.
This is a community defined by deep skilled-trades knowledge, dense social networks, and real economic leverage. It faces structural pressures — wage equity, the seasonal-employment cliff, bilingual education infrastructure — but it meets the region from a position of expertise and pride, not need.
The Fuente Workforce Alliance turns that collective expertise into bargaining power. It will partner on training — but training that ladders to real wages, respects the skills its workers already hold, and is built bilingually from the first draft.
At a Glance
| Leadership | Inés Marsh-Delgado, Director |
| Represents | Thousands of skilled workers |
| Leverage | The labor the region runs on |
| Standard | Bilingual by design; real wages |
Leadership
Office of the Director
Inés Marsh-Delgado
Founder & Director · Fuente Workforce Alliance
A second-generation community organizer with an MBA she earned at night while running her family’s contracting business, Marsh-Delgado negotiates training partnerships on behalf of thousands of workers. She will not sign a “reskilling” program that treats her community as raw material for someone else’s labor pipeline. She wants training that ladders to real wages, respects the expertise her people already hold, and is built bilingually from the start — not translated as an afterthought.
“My people already know how to run complex systems — they run this whole valley. Don’t design them a beginner course. Design them a promotion.”
Current Priorities
What the Alliance Is Working Toward
Ladders, Not Lanes
Training to Real Wages
Programs must connect to genuine wage gains and advancement — a promotion, not a certificate that leads nowhere.
Built In, Not Translated
Bilingual by Design
Curriculum is built bilingually from the first draft, treating workers’ languages as an asset rather than a barrier to be accommodated late.
Start From Skill
Recognized Expertise
Needs assessments must begin from the substantial skills workers already hold — and from the seasonal realities that make or break a program.
The Alliance on FlyForward
FlyForward’s retraining only works if it reaches the people who actually do the region’s technical work. The Alliance is ready to partner — and clear that a well-designed program will still fail if it ignores the skills its workers already have or the seasonal labor realities they live by. Design for a promotion, build it bilingually, and the Alliance will help fill the room.
— Fuente Workforce Alliance