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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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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.
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The Pay for Success Clean Energy Training project, which is supported by an $8.2 million grant from the U.S. Department of Labor and the U.S. Department of the Treasury, will train more than 660 New…
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The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act provides an unprecedented level of funding for critical infrastructure investments across the country—but how can we ensure that there is a diverse and talented labor pool prepared to support…
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Social Finance Vice President Jake Edwards spoke with WorkingNation about our new $100 million investment program supported by the Google Career Certificates Fund.
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OCTAE awarded a $2 million grant to Social Finance and Jobs for the Future (JFF) to expand high-quality CTE opportunities for youth through Pay for Success (PFS) financing.
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Google hosted a virtual conversation with Sundar Pichai, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo, Tracy Palandjian, Gerald Chertavian, and Rebecca Taber Staehelin to announce the launch of Google's $100 million Career Certificates Fund.
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Social Finance is managing the $100 million Google Career Certificates Fund, a Google-backed initiative targeting how to find, train, and create paths to good jobs in the modern economy for the nearly two-thirds of American…
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Following sustained, strong veteran employment outcomes throughout this period, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts funded a 15-month extension of Veterans CARE beginning in October 2021 and continuing through at least December 2022.
