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Thinking Like a Talent Investor
With employers across the country facing critical talent shortages, companies are exploring new ways to upskill and reskill workers. This report illustrates how, with intentional design and an “investor” mentality, employers can deploy Talent Finance…
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Is Talent Finance Right for Me?
Employers across the country are grappling with the challenge of filling critical job openings in industries like health care and transportation services. Explore our series of data visualizations to learn more about these in-demand occupations…
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Video: Talent Finance
Talent Finance bridges the gap between employers, training partners, supportive service providers, and capital providers, enabling them to collaborate on self-sustaining talent programs that prepare workers for the specific jobs employers need filled.
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Mission Investors Exchange 2022 National Conference: Community Resilience—Investing in People and Infrastructure
This thought-provoking and inspirational plenary session sought to answer how impact investing can strengthen communities and how communities have been resourceful and resilient in the face of unprecedented challenges. The session featured TED Talk-style presentations…
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Social Finance Leads a Conversation with Merit America Graduates Amy and Brandon at SOCAP22
At SOCAP22, Social Finance Vice President Jake Edwards sat down with Justin Steele, Director, Google.org, Americas and Leila Makarechi, Chief Business Officer, Merit America to discuss learnings from such employer-led investments. The session kicked off with…
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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…