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WorkingNation Video: Jake Edwards on the Google Career Certificates Fund
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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Exploring Pay For Success in K-12 Career and Technical Education: Observations From Six Sites Across the Nation
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 Career Certificates Fund Launch Event
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 in The New York Times: Google Creates $100 Million Fund for Skills Training Program
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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Veterans CARE Project Summary
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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Using Promising Models to Fulfill Occupational Licensure Requirements
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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Workforce Rx Podcast: The Impact of Private Investment in Workforce Development
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.