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2024 Benefits21 Leadership Forum

Note: This is a past event, additional resources may be available below.

Oct 8 – 10, 2024
Denver, CO

Date

Oct 8 – 10, 2024
3:00pm – 11:00am MDT

Location

Denver, CO

Contact

    [email protected]

Hosts

  1. Financial Security Program

Benefits are crucial to the financial security of our country. For families, benefits can mean having the resources to put food on the table, accessing quality care for their children, and investing in their goals for the future. Delivering these benefits in a person-centered way is not only essential to supporting Americans’ health and well-being, but is also a necessary foundation to building families’ financial resilience and, ultimately, building wealth.

The 2024 Benefits21 Leadership Forum, which gathered 70+ leaders from organizations across the private, public, and nonprofit sectors, centered on the integration and interoperability of benefits systems that support financial security. Together, attendees explored the question: How might we weave benefits together to bridge the gap between policy and the outcomes we want for workers and families?

Key Takeaways

State leaders are ready to act. We heard powerful examples of state leaders setting the bar higher for public benefits programs. They are ready to collaborate to take advantage of a unique moment we have to scale effective models for improved benefits delivery.

Think about “benefits infrastructure.” Thinking about the work leaders of leaders in the field, like Gary Community Ventures with MyFriendBen, as infrastructure rather than individual projects helps unlock new solutions and partnerships.

Operations policy is a powerful frame. Operations policy, defined as an effective feedback loop between benefits implementation and policy design, was a powerful framework for many leaders in the room worth further exploration.

Sectors want to collaborate. There is a hunger to work on benefits access, sufficiency, and delivery across sectors and not enough venues for effectively doing so.

For the full event agenda and speaker list, check out the briefing book.

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To help all families achieve financial stability, Aspen FSP works with cross-sector leaders to close benefit gaps, enhance state capacity, and build integrated, responsive, and modernized systems of public and workplace benefits.

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The Aspen Institute Financial Security Program’s 2024 Benefits21 Leadership Forum was supported by our generous Forum supporters: AARP Foundation, Ballmer Group, JPMorganChase, Prudential Financial, and W.K. Kellogg Foundation.

We are also grateful for the support and partnership of all the investors in our Benefits Transformation Initiative work: Annie E. Casey Foundation, Ballmer Group, JPMorganChase, Prudential Financial, The Families & Workers Fund, and W.K. Kellogg Foundation.