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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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Women Moving Markets: 3 Takeaways from a Boston Globe Panel featuring Social Finance CEO Tracy Palandjian
Tracy Palandjian joined Boston Impact Initiative CEO Betty Francisco for “Women Moving Markets: A Force for Social Change,” a panel on women, opportunity, and economic mobility.
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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.
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Improving Federal Policy for America’s Children
As SIPPRA advances effective programs, it could inform a broader approach to public budgeting that drives limited public resources to highly effective interventions and approaches. Federal programs could then invest in a more coordinated fashion…
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Job Training in New York to Address the Climate Crisis
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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Let’s Turn $1 Trillion Into Jobs and Inclusive Growth
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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Working in Service of the Greater Good: Reflections on the War in Ukraine
Social Finance Vice President Donnie Charleston offers reflections on his time in El Salvador as a U.S. Army Reserve medic, the war in Ukraine, and his work at Social Finance.