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Impact Investments, Workforce & Economic Mobility
On February 17, 2022, Google hosted “Closing the Opportunity Gap,” an exclusive, virtual conversation with Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo, Social Finance Co-Founder and CEO Tracy Palandjian, Year Up Founder and CEO Gerald Chertavian, and Merit America Co-Founder and Co-CEO Rebecca Taber Staehelin. These organizations together announced the launch of Google’s $100 million Career Certificates Fund, a pool of capital dedicated to helping American job seekers find well-paying jobs in high-growth fields. In partnership with inaugural training providers Year Up and Merit America, Social Finance will deploy this capital to drive over $1 billion in aggregate wage gains for 20,000 learners in the next ten years. Watch the recording of the event below.
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