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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
Report/Research
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.
Report/Research
ETF@JFFLabs Impact Report 2020
Four years into the fund creation, our mission to increase economic advancement for all is more pressing than ever. This report offers a look at the progress that ETF@JFFLabs and our portfolio companies have made in 2020.
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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.
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A New Approach to Postsecondary Education and Corporate Training That Serves All Learners
UVA Edge helps employers invest in the long-term career success of workers without college degrees.
Impact Story
The Future of Work Grand Challenge
Scale
Engaging with the American workforce system to create and scale pilots of winning solutions through partnerships with future-focused workforce boards.
Impact Employer Model
Prepare Your Company for the Future of Work by Putting Talent First
Toolkit
Recovery Playbook for Impact Employers
This special edition of our Impact Employer Framework offers insights into the unique challenges companies face in this moment, along with emerging practices to help business leaders navigate recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic and related crises.
2020 Immersive Learning Technology
Simulated learning technologies like augmented and virtual reality offer new ways to train workers rapidly, and they could ultimately help diversify workforces and boost economic advancement.
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.
Embodied Labs is poised to lead in this market, while driving the social impact and economic advancement of for skilled healthcare professionals and patients today and in the future.
In the News
ETF@JFFLabs Joins $3.2 Million Investment Round of Leading Healthcare Immersive Technology
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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.
