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Aspen Ideas Festival 2022: Workforce Transformation: What Empowerment Looks Like
Tracy Palandjian moderated a conversation between Carolyn Childers and Rachel Romer Carlson about what it means means to engage, upskill, and empower the workforce while ensuring equitable access and participation.
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CleanTech IQ: The Role of Impact Investing in Fixed Income to Create Measurable Outcomes
Rashmi Khare joined Michaela Seimen Howat for a discussion of impact investing's role in fixed income portfolios.
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Identifying Barriers to Workforce Participation in Connecticut
Social Finance advised the CT Office of Workforce Strategy on the implementation of Social Impact Bonds and outcomes rate cards to address workforce challenges in the wake of Covid-19.
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Learning to Do Better: Building the Evidence Base on Career Impact Bonds and Economic Mobility
With funding from the Strada Education Network, Social Finance has launched a partnership with MDRC to implement a robust learning agenda to assess the implementation and outcomes of the Career Impact Bonds funded through the…
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Money Matters Podcast: Changing the Paradigm for Employment with Michael Grossman
Michael Grossman joined hosts Ruben Koekoek and Björn Vennema to discuss Career Impact Bonds and the $100 million Google Career Certificates Fund.
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New Strategies for Employer-Led Workforce Development
We believe employers can and should engage more deeply in innovative solutions to today’s talent challenges. That’s why Social Finance is working to identify effective and underutilized opportunities for employers to finance, train, hire, and…
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4 Lessons from the 2022 National Association of Workforce Boards Forum
By realigning incentives around student success, alternative financing models hold training providers accountable and help workforce boards achieve their goals of preparing their constituents for careers in high-demand fields.
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Video: Rising Together™ Action Summit hosted by Google and Goodwill®
Tracy Palanjian and others answer the question of how we can we catapult more workers into upwardly mobile, “new collar” roles in a panel discussion.