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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
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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…

Connor Diemand-Yauman and Rebecca Taber Staehelin

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Workforce Realigned Podcast, Episode 7: How Google is Driving Economic Mobility with an Innovative Investment Fund
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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…

Jake Edwards, Troy Blackwood, and Hector Mujica

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Workforce Realigned Podcast, Episode 6: New Jersey Pay It Forward Prepares Students for Good-Paying Jobs
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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…

Jake Segal, David Socolow, and Sarah Keh

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Pioneers in Business, Philanthropy, and Government Discuss New Partnerships to Advance Economic Mobility
Workforce Realigned: How new partnerships are advancing economic mobility. Partnership between impact investment groups and banks depicted using white text and circles with orange and green lines splitting them in half.

Pioneers in Business, Philanthropy, and Government Discuss New Partnerships to Advance Economic Mobility

At our national launch event of Workforce Realigned: How New Partnerships Are Advancing Economic Mobility, leaders in government, philanthropy, and the corporate sector explored the emergence of these unique partnerships, drawing on examples from the book…

Madeleine Wonneberger

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Workforce Realigned: National Launch Event Recording
Workforce Realigned: How new partnerships are advancing economic mobility. Partnership between impact investment groups and banks depicted using white text and circles with orange and green lines splitting them in half.

Workforce Realigned: National Launch Event Recording

The national launch event of Workforce Realigned: How New Partnerships Are Advancing Economic Mobility highlighted the launch of this new book from Social Finance and the Federal Reserve Banks of Atlanta and Philadelphia and discussed…

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Workforce Realigned: Worker Voices Video
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Workforce Realigned: Worker Voices Video

This video highlights the voices of workers and some of the challenges they face in the workforce, drawing from three case studies within the book: the Veterans CARE Pay for Success Project (Chapter 2), San…

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Workforce Realigned Podcast, Episode 5: Accelerating Economic Mobility
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Workforce Realigned Podcast, Episode 5: Accelerating Economic Mobility

In this podcast episode, Social Finance CEO Tracy Palandjian, General Assembly CEO Lisa Lewin, and American Diesel Training Centers CEO Tim Spurlock discuss closing the skills gap and rethinking the way we finance worker training…

Tracy Palandjian, Lisa Lewin, and Tim Spurlock

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Workforce Realigned Podcast, Episode 4: Higher Ed Funding
Episode 4 of the workforce realigned podcast.

Workforce Realigned Podcast, Episode 4: Higher Ed Funding

In this podcast episode, Michael Reeser, Chancellor and CEO of Texas State Technical College System, discusses an outcomes-based formula being used at TSTC to link higher ed dollars to employment outcomes and his advice for…

Michael Reeser

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