Past Events – Page 5 – Workforce Matters

COVID-19 remote working + learning webinars

06/30/20 Webinar: Approaches to Virtual Work-based Learning and CTE: Practices and Considerations

Join Workforce Matters, Economic Opportunity Funders, Grantmakers for Thriving Youth, Grantmakers Concerned with Immigrants and Refugees, Hispanics in Philanthropy, and Youth Transition Funders Group for a webinar exploring approaches to virtual work-based learning and career technical education. We will explore how programs around the country are adapting their approaches as Read more…

By Workforce Matters, 4 yearsJune 18, 2020 ago

COVID-19 remote working + learning webinars

06/17/20 Webinar: Digital Inclusion 101: Who has internet access, why, and what can funders do about it?

Wednesday, June 17th 2:00 pm ET / 1:00 pm CT / 12:00 pm MT / 11:00 am PT / 8:00 am HST Remote learning and working are creating opportunity for some while widening the digital divide for others. Workforce and economic opportunity funders have an opportunity to learn more about digital access and inclusion research and Read more…

By Sarah Oldmixon, 4 yearsJune 2, 2020 ago

remote working + learning webinars

06/11/20 Webinar: Remote Learning: Building CBO Capacity and Supporting Learner Success

Thursday, June 11th 3:30 pm ET / 2:30 pm CT / 1:30 pm MT / 12:30 pm PT / 9:30 am HST Interested in learning about how to support and build the capacity of community-based organizations and other education/training partners as programs transition to online formats? How about tried-and-true methods Read more…

By Sarah Oldmixon, 4 yearsJune 2, 2020 ago

COVID-19 webinars youth + young adults

06/03/20 Webinar: Towards an Equitable Economic Recovery for Young People – Funder Town Hall on Summer Jobs and Service Corps Programs

Wednesday, June 3 4:00 pm ET / 3:00 pm CT / 2:00 pm MT / 1:00 pm PT / 10:00 am HST Interested in learning more about how to support our nation’s most vulnerable young people to work, learn and earn this summer and next year? Join YTFG, Workforce Matters, and Read more…

By Sarah Oldmixon, 4 yearsJune 2, 2020 ago

COVID-19 webinars

05/28/20 Webinar: Towards an Equitable Response and Recovery – Grantmaking Strategy Under COVID-19

Thursday, May 28th Interested in learning more about how your peers are tackling the challenges of grantmaking in the COVID-19 era? Join Workforce Matters and our partners at the Children, Youth, and Family Funders Roundtable; Economic Opportunity Funders; NFG’s Funders for a Just Economy; Funders Together to End Homelessness; Grantmakers Read more…

By Workforce Matters, 5 yearsMay 8, 2020 ago

COVID-19 immigrant workers webinars

COVID-19 Pandemic Impact on Immigrant Families and Communities: Recommendations for Philanthropic Action

Wednesday, April 15, 2020 – 10:00 am to 11:30 am PDT / 12:00 pm-1:30 pm CDT / 1:00 pm -2:30 pm EDT Webinar Learn from leaders in the immigrant rights movement on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic about how philanthropy must significantly increase grantmaking dollars, shift grantmaking practices, embrace risk, and Read more…

By Workforce Matters, 5 years ago

convening networking events

Special Offering: Workforce Funder Check-In Calls

We know that many of you are working from home and perhaps feeling a bit isolated, so we’re scheduling some informal Workforce Funder Check-In Calls over the next couple of weeks. During these calls, you’ll be invited to share resources for responding to COVID-19 and economic uncertainty, ask your peers for help brainstorming solutions Read more…

By Workforce Matters, 5 yearsMarch 17, 2020 ago

webinars

02/26/20 Webinar: Power and Light: Enlightened Approaches for Accountable and Equitable Grantmaking

February 26, 2020 Don’t let your processes undermine your foundation’s ability to serve the public good. In our current climate, there has been an increase in distrust and criticism about the power philanthropy wields and how it uses or misuses it. In this timely session, we will share approaches that Read more…

By Sarah Oldmixon, 5 yearsJanuary 22, 2020 ago

webinars

02/19/20 Webinar: Innovations in Workforce Mobility

February 19, 2020 Please join Workforce Matters for a webinar on innovations in workforce mobility. The Fund for Our Economic Future will share about the Paradox Prize and its mission to inspire innovations through an open call for ideas aimed at generating sustainable solutions to eradicate the ‘no car, nob Read more…

By Sarah Oldmixon, 5 yearsJanuary 22, 2020 ago

racial equity webinars

02/12/20 Webinar: Integrating Racial Equity, Workforce Benchmarking, and Capacity Building: A Case Study

February 12, 2020 Looking for concrete ways to connect racial equity with improving workforce outcomes? Interested in building the data disaggregation and analysis capacity of your workforce grantees? Join Workforce Matters, Philadelphia JOIN, Corporation for a Skilled Workforce, and Government Alliance for Race and Equity (GARE) for a conversation about how Read more…

By Sarah Oldmixon, 5 yearsJanuary 22, 2020 ago