Lessons Learned: Financing Workforce Training for Results
Join Georgetown University’s McCourt School of Public Policy and the Social Finance Institute for a timely conversation on one of the biggest questions in workforce policy: how to pay for high-quality training in ways that expand opportunity without pushing more risk onto workers or employers. Marking the launch of Lessons Learned: Financing Workforce Education and Training through Outcomes-Based Repayments by Harry Holzer and David Socolow, this event will explore what emerging repayment models can teach us about funding short-term, career-aligned training for today’s labor market.
As employers struggle to find skilled talent and policymakers look for more accountable investments, outcomes-based repayment models are drawing growing attention as a way to connect financing more directly to real employment and earnings results. Featuring remarks from the authors and a roundtable discussion with leading voices in the field, the event will surface practical lessons for policymakers, employers, training providers, philanthropic funders, and investors.
When: April 20, 2026, 12:30–2:00 pm ET
Where: Georgetown University McCourt School of Public Policy — 125 E St. NW, Room 620
Lunch will be provided.
Agenda
12:00 pm: Registration Opens; lunches available
- Karen Anderson, Managing Director, Social Finance Institute
- Harry Holzer, John LaFarge Jr. SJ Professor of Public Policy, Georgetown University’s McCourt School of Public Policy
- Harry Holzer, John LaFarge Jr. SJ Professor of Public Policy, Georgetown University’s McCourt School of Public Policy
- Ethan Pollack, Senior Director, Policy & Advocacy, Jobs for the Future
- David Socolow, Head of Policy, Social Finance Institute
- Jason Tyszko, Senior Vice President, Policy and Programs, U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation
- Rachel Lipson, Research Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School, Resident Scholar at the Aspen Institute Economic Strategy Group, non-resident senior fellow at Brookings Metro
1:45–2:00 pm: Audience Questions
2:00 pm: Event Adjourns