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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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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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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.
