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For Regional Workforce Systems, Creating Good Jobs is a Marathon
Social Finance is supporting workforce development partners across the country, including Good Jobs Challenge Grantees, as they pursue ambitious economic mobility initiatives fit for the future of the U.S. economy.
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Rethinking Workforce Development: Seven Key Moments from Our LinkedIn Live Conversation
Social Finance Board Member Gov. Deval Patrick joined CEO Tracy Palandjian for a LinkedIn Live conversation exploring new education and training approaches that fill critical labor shortages and create economic opportunities for more people. Listen…
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WorkingNation Video: Michael Grossman on the New Jersey Pay It Forward Program
In this WorkingNation interview, filmed at JFF Horizons, Social Finance's Managing Director of Impact Investments Michael Grossman discusses public-private partnerships, including our Pay It Forward Fund in New Jersey.
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Video: Building an Equitable Workforce for the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund
Social Finance's Managing Director of Impact Investments Michael Grossman joins Atlantic Council Global Energy Center and the Coalition for Green Capital to discuss strategies for developing an inclusive and equitable green energy workforce.
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Social Finance in The Boston Globe: An Overhaul of How Workers are Trained and Educated
Job training may sound dull, but getting it right is a key part of creating opportunity for people and places that have been left behind—and ultimately strengthening our economy and democracy.
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Workforce Realigned Podcast, Episode 8: How Merit America is Using Google Career Certificates to Create a More Equitable & Inclusive Job Market
In this Workforce Realigned podcast episode, Connor Diemand-Yauman and Rebecca Taber Staehelin, Co-Founders and Co-CEOs of Merit America, accompany Social Finance Managing Director Michael Grossman for a discussion on how the program, funded by the…
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Workforce Realigned Podcast, Episode 7: How Google is Driving Economic Mobility with an Innovative Investment Fund
In this Workforce Realigned podcast episode, Troy Blackwood, Head of Structured Investments at Google, Hector Mujica, Head of Economic Opportunity, Americas at Google.org, and Social Finance Vice President Jake Edwards discuss the Google Career Certificates…
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Workforce Realigned Podcast, Episode 6: New Jersey Pay It Forward Prepares Students for Good-Paying Jobs
In this Workforce Realigned podcast episode, David Socolow, Executive Director of the New Jersey Higher Education Student Assistance Authority, Sarah Keh, Vice President of Inclusion Solutions at Prudential Financial, and Social Finance’s Jake Segal, discuss…