A Blueprint for Amplifying Worker Voice
Avenues for increasing engagement and retention while building an inclusive culture This guide offers three accessible yet effective starting points for creating mechanisms that can amplify worker voice across your business: establishing employee “warmlines,” creating…
JFFVentures Impact Report 2022
A look at the progress that JFFVentures and our portfolio companies made in 2022. This report offers a look at the progress that JFFVentures and our portfolio companies have made in 2022. We are honored…
Growing Quality Green Jobs
This report leverages the “Green Transformation Cycle” to illustrate the economic transformation currently underway, and to better shape workforce training programs, employer talent pipelines, and emerging legislation to support the urgency of a just transition…
Jobs for the Future Is Building an Inclusive Digital Jobs Strategy
The current labor market has high demand for digital skills across all industries and businesses, regardless of size. Though digital jobs are growing and are typically quality jobs, women of all racial backgrounds, Black, Latinx,…
Toward the Big Blur: State Governance of a Unified Education-to-Workforce System That Works for Everyone
Jobs for the Future’s (JFF) vision for the Big Blur calls for entirely new educational institutions and systems to better prepare 16-to-20-year-olds for college and careers. This paper examines the new type of governance needed…
Frontline Possibilities
In today’s economic landscape, it’s crucial for business leaders to understand and address the needs, aspirations, and capabilities of their frontline workers. By doing so, they gain a multitude of benefits that create new career…
Data Enablers: Critical Conditions to Design, Deliver, and Evaluate Equitable Pathways
Data is essential to proving the efficacy of an intervention, demonstrating the need for a new approach, or simply understanding how our individual efforts add up to systems-level trends. In their work designing and advocating…
Toward the Big Blur: Momentum and Progress in Colorado
In this first in a series of case studies featuring leading-edge states, Jobs for the Future (JFF) documents key policies that Colorado is putting into place to erase the arbitrary boundaries between high school, college,…
Immersive Learning & XR Technology Skills and Careers
A framework of occupations and career paths created or transformed by extended reality and immersive learning. Why Extended Reality and Immersive Learning? Extended reality (XR) technology and immersive learning have already reshaped how people learn,…