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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.
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Sandra Salstrom joined Social Finance in October 2021 to lead government engagement efforts. We spoke with Sandra about her new role and the importance of building connections with government partners.
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An FJC donor is putting philanthropic dollars to work by investing in economic mobility for low-income workers. The initiative is called the UP Fund, a $50 million pool of catalytic capital raised by Social Finance.
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The Career Impact Bond (CIB) is a student-friendly model for upskilling and training programs, supported by Social Finance's $50 million UP Fund. Students in a CIB enroll in training programs with no upfront costs, only paying…
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This report, written by Jeanne Batalova, a senior policy analyst at the Migration Policy Institute, provides an expert analysis of the Massachusetts Pathways to Economic Advancement project, which was recognized in the 2020 Innovations in…
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In this episode of the WorkforceRx podcast, Futuro Health CEO and host Van Ton-Quinlivan is joined by Tracy Palandjian, CEO and Co-Founder of Social Finance to discuss the Career Impact Bond.
