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In recent years there has been an increase in the program range and policy to help people move from welfare-to-work, such as work placements and employment subsidies, guidance, job search and placement, training and employability skills and access assistance. There remains considerable variation in the nature of tools used by local actors in different countries, implying significant scope for international transfer of ideas and lessons. This chapter looks at some innovative tools being used by local welfare-to-work programs in each of these areas. It also examines social enterprises and the creation of new work opportunities, in-work financial incentives, the role of the personal adviser or counsellor, new technologies and job matching, local one-stop-shops, local employer-based training projects and the promotion of the local mobility of labour. A number of brief case studies are presented including: The Glasgow Works initiative in the United Kingdom; the Italia Lavoro initiative to create new activities for employment in Italy; the Self Sufficiency Experiment in British Colombia and New Brunswick, Canada; publicly accessible computer based job-matching services in Canada and Sweden; the one-stop-shop approach in Connecticut, United States; a customised training project in the UK New Deal for 18-24 year olds is also analysed.