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Normalizing Opportunity Starts With Opportunities to Learn While Incarcerated
People Need to Care—And Push for Change Most people don’t think or care about prisons, the people who reside in them, or what goes on in them. However, given that over 90% of people in…
October 18, 2023
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What Will It Take to Unlock Pathways? JFF Partners with the Biden-Harris Administration to Find Out
The Unlocking Pathways Summit series spurred collaboration by state leadership teams from across the country to support young people in achieving career success We know we need to do more—faster and more collaboratively—to support young…
October 18, 2023
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Small Businesses Have a Vital Voice in the VR Conversation
Jobs for the Future partners with 20 small businesses to train workers using VR technology If the full power of virtual reality (VR) technology is to be harnessed and equitably experienced—and if we take our…
October 12, 2023
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Dismantling Racial and Gender Bias in the Workplace
The experiences and advice of young adults and talent developers In this blog, JFF shares the experiences and advice of young adults and talent developers. There are certainly employers across the country focused on creating…
October 6, 2023
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How Flexible Funding Can Accelerate Workforce Equity and Innovation
In this blog, JFF shares lessons learned from year one of California’s High Road Training Fund, which empowers grantees to make decisions anchored in community needs. Strengthen equity-centered funding practices The HRTF design shifts power…
October 6, 2023
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Redefining Jobs for an Inclusive Green Economy
JFF’s more inclusive definition of green jobs increases accessibility to the green economy and allows all industries to mitigate climate change. In this blog, JFF shares how a more inclusive definition of green jobs increases…
October 3, 2023
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What We Know About the Income Share Agreement Market
In this blog, JFF’s Financing the Future team summarizes recent research on income share agreements with the goal of building a more student-friendly ISA market and providing everyone with a better understanding of the ISA…
September 8, 2023
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Strategic Talent Development for Inclusive Economic Opportunity
NOVA by the Numbers NOVA is one of the largest community colleges in the United States, serving more than 70,000 students annually across six campuses. It’s the largest supplier of talent in the Northern Virginia…
September 8, 2023
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Revolutionizing Career Preparation with Augmented Reality
AR programming as a foundational skill for community college learners. Community college partners have found early success in implementing an augmented reality (AR) training program with participants across disciplines and academic levels. In a pioneering…
September 6, 2023