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Over the last four decades, the number of people in America’s prisons and jails has increased 500 percent.September 2018
The Square One Project, a new three-year initiative to re-examine traditional responses to crime, launched this month with support from The Laura and John Arnold Foundation, MacArthur Foundation and Columbia University Justice Lab.
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The Harold Alfond Foundation helps Maine HS students pursue post-secondary opportunitiesSeptember 2018
The Alfond Scholarship Foundation grants every child born in Maine $500 in a NextGen529 account that can only to be used for postsecondary education.
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Entrepreneurs Donate and Volunteer More Than Others, Study ShowsSeptember 2018
A study by Fidelity Charitable reports that the median gift from an entrepreneur is 50 percent higher than from other kinds of donors.
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Stanford Social Innovation Review: "Why Proven Solutions Struggle to Scale Up"September 2018
Inadequate funding is identified as one of three barriers that repeatedly block social innovations from reaching their broadest impact. The authors identify four considerations for funders.
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JPMorgan Chase Launches $500 Million AdvancingCities Initiative to Boost Economic OpportunitySeptember 2018
JPMC’s grants and low-cost loans, which seek to help more people benefit from the growing economy, include an emphasis on connecting more people to jobs with a pathway to a career and greater financial security.
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Laura and John Arnold Foundation announce launch of the Texas Policy LabSeptember 2018
This new public-private partnership will bring together data experts, social scientists, and policymakers to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of public programs.
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Back to the Future - Workforce SolutionsAugust 2018
“Government and traditional education” are not the answer to the skills gap and changing labor markets, writes this college president, who sees the need for a strategic paradigm shift both in industry and education. How can technical colleges help?
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Making Welfare Recipients Work Is a Question of ValuesAugust 2018
Should work requirements be tied to safety-net programs for low-income Americans? AEI's Michael Strain makes the case in Bloomberg that the issue is more about philosophy than policy.
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Going Local in a Troubled TimeJuly 2018
An essay by Yuval Levin, editor of National Affairs, emphasizes the importance of developing local solutions to national problems.
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Prison Entrepreneurship Program StudyJuly 2018
Ex-felons create $122.5 million annual economic impact and save taxpayers over $4 million annually.
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BankWork$ and the Changing Nature of WorkJuly 2018
Philanthropists Les and Sheri Biller created BankWork$ over a decade ago to train young adults from low income communities for lasting careers in the financial services industry.
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‘The Future of Work’ and ‘Human + Machine’ Review: Reckoning With the RobotsJune 2018
Annual Meeting 2018 speaker Oren Cass debunks the popular "future of work" narrative and argues that automation rarely outright destroys jobs.
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Claude Worthington Benedum Foundation’s VP Commencement MessageJune 2018
Community Colleges offer a path to economic security, careers, and lifelong learning
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How and Why Free-Market Public-Policy Donors Give to Charities that Directly Help the Poor: Event AgendaMay 2018
A private donor meeting hosted by The Philanthropy Roundtable and John William Pope Foundation
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Event Recap: Upskilling and Transformation Take Center Stage at Philanthropy ConferenceMay 2018
The cross section of economic mobility, workforce development, higher education and philanthropy was examined on June 1-2 2016 in Orlando.
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Supporting Better ChoicesApril 2018
Ryan Streeter
The best efforts against poverty reinforce what people are doing right
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Out of Juvenile Detention, They're Serving Meals Instead of TimeApril 2018
Eat.Drink.Change Lives – As donors on a Philanthropy Roundtable site visit recently learned, that’s the motto of Café Momentum, a culinary, job and life-skill training for at-risk youth.
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What Will the Future of Work Mean for Jobs, Skills, and Wages?April 2018
That’s the question asked by McKinsey researchers in this report, which assess the jobs lost and jobs gained under different scenarios through 2030.
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A Closer Look With Arthur Levitt: Alfa DemmellashApril 2018
Learn more about Rising Tide's model in this Bloomberg Podcast with Alfa Demmellash, its Harvard-educated, Ethiopian-born founder