Insights

Unlocking Public Dollars for Guaranteed Income: A Primer for Philanthropy

In California, philanthropy has a golden opportunity to leverage public sector dollars to implement a guaranteed income (GI).

July 14, 2022 Leah Greenberg and Mona Masri

Aspen Ideas Festival 2022: Innovations in Workforce Development: New Models to Finance the Future of Work

June 30, 2022 Tracy Palandjian and Aspen Ideas Festival

Aspen Ideas Festival 2022: Workforce Transformation: What Empowerment Looks Like

Tracy Palandjian moderated a conversation between Carolyn Childers and Rachel Romer Carlson about what it means means to engage, upskill, and empower the workforce while ensuring equitable access and participation.

June 29, 2022 Tracy Palandjian and Aspen Ideas Festival

Identifying Barriers to Workforce Participation in Connecticut

Social Finance advised the CT Office of Workforce Strategy on the implementation of Social Impact Bonds and outcomes rate cards to address workforce challenges in the wake of Covid-19.

June 23, 2022

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.

May 26, 2022 Björn Vennema and Ruben Koekoek

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…

May 23, 2022 Justin Bakule and Kyle Doran

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.

May 12, 2022

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.

May 9, 2022 Tracy Palandjian and Rising Together™ Action Summit

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…

May 4, 2022 Hydie Kim Hudson, Matt Latimer, and Danielle Charpentier