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JFFLabs
JFFLabs partners with visionary entrepreneurs, Fortune 500 companies, and investors to foster innovative solutions that create positive change in education and workforce systems.
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The future of work is rapidly becoming today’s reality.
As the nature of work changes, we need big thinkers with smart ideas to come together for the defining challenge of our time—building solutions for the economic advancement for all. Using new and existing models, we can make a significant impact that will benefit workers, learners, their communities, and company bottom lines.
JFFLabs provides a critical connection between traditional systems and new technology, financial models, and forward-leaning leaders. Together, we address the challenges to economic advancement faced by students, workers, and the businesses and systems that serve them.
JFF and JFFLabs operate in tandem to pursue the same mission: to build a society in which everyone has the opportunity to access the skills, resources, and credentials they need to achieve economic advancement.
What We Do
Impact Acceleration
Identify and scale workforce and edtech innovations to drive transformation and meaningful impact.
Incubation
Build and support early stage products and services in partnership with mission-aligned entrepreneurs.
Investment
Invest in startups and solutions in the training-to-employment continuum.
Innovation Networks
Develop and lead networks of education and workforce partners eager to modernize practices and systems.
Corporate Leadership
Partner with companies to solve workforce challenges with proven solutions that prioritize the economic well-being of employees, while advancing bottom lines.
Our Stories
This extraordinary group of entrepreneurs and leaders—can help us to solve defining challenges for our time—promoting true upward mobility and a more equitable economy.
In the News
JFF Announces New Executives in Residence Program for Education and Future of Work Pioneers
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Career Navigation Technology 2020
A technology market poised for innovation and impact. Our scan focuses on the millions of workers too often overlooked or underserved by traditional approaches to career navigation.
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ETF@JFFLabs 2019 Impact Report
Investing in technology solutions that create opportunities for economic advancement for all.
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How Workforce Boards Show the Way Toward the Future of Work
Future-Focused Workforce Leaders Excel in Today’s Rapidly Changing World.
ETF@JFFLabs extends our work into the impact investing space—giving us additional means, agency, and ability.
In the News
Maria Flynn: Unlocking the Potential of Workers—Announcing ETF@JFFLabs
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How a Small Lab Is Building a Big Thing
On the one-year anniversary of JFFLabs, COO Sonali Kothari reflects on the remarkable progress JFF’s innovation engine has made so far: identifying bold solutions to wage stagnation, accelerating work-based learning, and building opportunity for our most vulnerable people.
A Partnership to Improve the Lives of Adults Without a High School Diploma
JFFLabs Impact Acceleration and Graduation Alliance are teaming up to increase high school completion and expand career opportunities among the 31 million American adults without a diploma.
SkillRise
JFFLabs serves on ISTE’s Technology Advisory Group, supporting the production of leading resources that guide the planning, implementation, and sustainability of edtech and workforce tech solutions.
To reinvigorate the promise of the American Dream for workers across the country, we need real action from America’s corporate leaders.
In the News
Cat Ward: Companies Must Rewrite the Employer-Employee Compact
We must grow in ways that provide everyone with a chance to succeed.
In the News
JFF Selected as TD Ready Challenge Finalist
JFFLabs Work-Based Learning Impact Accelerator
JFFLabs works with entrepreneurs and growth stage companies to accelerate and scale work-based learning workforce and edtech innovations.
The $1 Billion Wage Gain Challenge
Together, we will drive $10,000 in annual wage increases for at least 100,000 low- and middle-income US workers by 2021.
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Chicago Businesses Lead Frontline Talent Innovation
Companies are partnering with technology providers that offer proven solutions for finding and transitioning frontline workers to careers in IT and software development.
Report | Leveraging Technology to Increase Opportunity and Economic Security for Adults
Field Testing Tools that Break Barriers to Learning and Employment
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John Battelle, Editor in Chief, NewCoOne of the more intriguing things about JFFLabs is that it doesn’t assume Silicon Valley has all the answers.
