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Steering Committee Nominations are Open!
Submit Your Nomination by November 21 Workforce Matters is accepting nominations for our 2026-27 Steering Committee through Friday, November 21. Steering Committee members provide oversight and strategic direction for the activities of the Workforce Matters network. Please consider Read more
2025 Member Survey
Share Your Feedback by November 14 Workforce Matters is seeking your feedback! Your feedback in 2024 helped us plan this year’s Further Together conference and encouraged us to convene more in-person events; hold more funder-to-funder Read more
What We Learned Together: Insights from a Year of Peer Learning at Workforce Matters
Reflecting on Our 2025 Peer Learning Strategy Series Throughout 2025, Workforce Matters hosted a four-part Peer Learning Strategy Series designed to help funders navigate emerging challenges and opportunities across the workforce development landscape. Each session Read more
Research Insights on Worker-Centered Strategies, Inclusive Systems, and Future Workforce Trends (Pt. 1)
At our Further Together conference last month, we hosted our second research reception highlighting new, innovative or impactful research about education and workforce development. Twelve different workforce-oriented research projects were selected to participate in this Read more
Supporting Member Highlight: Holloway Family Foundation
Attributed to: Jenny LaForest, Executive Director, Holloway Family Foundation About Holloway Family Foundation The Holloway Family Foundation is a lean-staffed private foundation based in Colleyville, Texas. Its three focus areas include workforce development, youth mentorship, Read more
Supporting Member Highlight: Fairfield County’s Community Foundation
Attributed to: Liz Hoagland, Senior Director, Education and Workforce Development, Fairfield County’s Community Foundation About Fairfield County’s Community Foundation Fairfield County’s Community Foundation works closely with local organizations, nonprofits, businesses, government, and philanthropists to Read more
The Fund for Workforce Equity is a pooled fund organized by Workforce Matters to spark innovative strategies to center workers and learners of color in the design and implementation of workforce policies and programs.
We announced our second round of grantees in March 2025. Read more about them on the Fund for Workforce Equity website.
About Workforce Matters
Workforce Matters is a national network of grantmakers that draws on expert and practitioner knowledge and works together to strengthen workforce development philanthropy such that it empowers workers, learners, and job seekers to realize their full potential; dismantles inequities based on race, gender, ability, and other individual characteristics; and advances equitable education and employment outcomes for youth and adults.
