Job Quality in Practice Webinar – To Boost Job Quality, Money Matters: Practical Tools for Engaging Investors and Lenders Toward Change

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

Various charts trending upward, superimposed on a photo of four stacks of coins ascending in height.

Date

Tue Feb 11, 2020
2:00pm – 3:00pm

Location



Download slides (PDF): To Boost Job Quality, Money Matters

To achieve vibrant communities and expand economic opportunity, capital must play a key aligning role. Business lenders and investors, including those such as CDFIs that seek social impact as well as financial returns, are important contributors to the local economy and job creation. But what kinds of jobs are the businesses they finance creating? What kinds of jobs do we want them to create? Can we influence the quality of these jobs? And what can job quality advocates in workforce development and other fields learn from pioneering investors and lenders about strategies to measure job quality in firms and drive business practice change?

This webinar will be held on February 11, Tuesday, 2:00 – 3:00 p.m. ET. and is the second in our Job Quality in Practice webinar series. The panel includes:

  • Betsy Biemann: CEO, Coastal Enterprises Inc., Aspen Institute Job Quality Fellow
  • Bhairvee Shavdia: Senior Associate, HCAP Partners, Aspen Institute Job Quality Fellow
  • Tom Woelfel: Director, Research and Consulting, Pacific Community Ventures
  • Moderator: Mark Popovich: Director, Good Companies/Good Jobs Initiative, The Aspen Institute Economic Opportunities Program

The Job Quality in Practice series is designed to support practitioners across fields – including workforce development, economic development, capital deployment, policy, worker advocacy, and business – to address job quality in their work. Webinars will share actionable tools and approaches, highlight leading practitioners’ work, and create connections across disciplines.

We are grateful to Prudential Financial for its support of our Job Quality in Practice webinar series and our ongoing efforts to advance a job quality field of practice.


Other Webinars in This Series

Share

Business lenders and investors can play important roles in supporting the creation of quality jobs. Hear @AspenWorkforce and others discuss how money matters for #jobquality.Webinar: “To Boost #JobQuality, Money Matters: Practical Tools for Engaging Investors and Lenders Toward Change.” Featuring Betsy Biemann (@CEIMaine), Bhairvee Shavdia (@hcapllc), @tomwoelfel (@PCVtweets), and @mpopov1229 (@AspenWorkforce).Impact investing has skyrocketed, but these investments seldom consider how business practices affect workers. How can we encourage investors and lenders to make #jobquality a priority?Good jobs are good business. Companies that prioritize #jobquality often outperform their peers. How can investors and lenders identify businesses that offer quality jobs and support their growth?


Learn More

The Economic Opportunities Program advances strategies, policies, and ideas to help low- and moderate-income people thrive in a changing economy. Join our mailing list and follow us on social media to stay connected to our work, including events, publications, blog posts, and more.



Download slides (PDF): To Boost Job Quality, Money Matters

To achieve vibrant communities and expand economic opportunity, capital must play a key aligning role. Business lenders and investors, including those such as CDFIs that seek social impact as well as financial returns, are important contributors to the local economy and job creation. But what kinds of jobs are the businesses they finance creating? What kinds of jobs do we want them to create? Can we influence the quality of these jobs? And what can job quality advocates in workforce development and other fields learn from pioneering investors and lenders about strategies to measure job quality in firms and drive business practice change?

This webinar will be held on February 11, Tuesday, 2:00 – 3:00 p.m. ET. and is the second in our Job Quality in Practice webinar series. The panel includes:

  • Betsy Biemann: CEO, Coastal Enterprises Inc., Aspen Institute Job Quality Fellow
  • Bhairvee Shavdia: Senior Associate, HCAP Partners, Aspen Institute Job Quality Fellow
  • Tom Woelfel: Director, Research and Consulting, Pacific Community Ventures
  • Moderator: Mark Popovich: Director, Good Companies/Good Jobs Initiative, The Aspen Institute Economic Opportunities Program

The Job Quality in Practice series is designed to support practitioners across fields – including workforce development, economic development, capital deployment, policy, worker advocacy, and business – to address job quality in their work. Webinars will share actionable tools and approaches, highlight leading practitioners’ work, and create connections across disciplines.

We are grateful to Prudential Financial for its support of our Job Quality in Practice webinar series and our ongoing efforts to advance a job quality field of practice.


Other Webinars in This Series

Share

Business lenders and investors can play important roles in supporting the creation of quality jobs. Hear @AspenWorkforce and others discuss how money matters for #jobquality.Webinar: “To Boost #JobQuality, Money Matters: Practical Tools for Engaging Investors and Lenders Toward Change.” Featuring Betsy Biemann (@CEIMaine), Bhairvee Shavdia (@hcapllc), @tomwoelfel (@PCVtweets), and @mpopov1229 (@AspenWorkforce).Impact investing has skyrocketed, but these investments seldom consider how business practices affect workers. How can we encourage investors and lenders to make #jobquality a priority?Good jobs are good business. Companies that prioritize #jobquality often outperform their peers. How can investors and lenders identify businesses that offer quality jobs and support their growth?


Learn More

The Economic Opportunities Program advances strategies, policies, and ideas to help low- and moderate-income people thrive in a changing economy. Join our mailing list and follow us on social media to stay connected to our work, including events, publications, blog posts, and more.



Fixing Work: Recent Lessons from the Field

The Aspen Institute Economic Opportunities Program will soon release a report, Fixing Work: Lessons from Job Quality Practitioners, based on in-depth interviews with more than 20 leaders across the country about the work they are doing to create good jobs that provide economic security, the opportunity to advance and grow, and a safe, dignified, and equitable workplace. 

Writing a Public Comment

Learn a framework for writing effective public comments in this 1-hour webinar.

Advising Small Businesses on Job Quality: Lessons from CDFIs

Hear from CDFIs about their approaches to building job quality advising into their work, and share your questions and comments. We are eager to hear what you think!

Job Quality Fellowship Webinar – Transcript

In addition to providing an overview of the nomination and application process, we’re pleased to welcome two Job Quality Fellows to this conversation — Neidi Dominguez Zamorano, founding executive director of Organized Power in Numbers, and Bo Delp, executive director of the Texas Climate Jobs Project — who will share their experience as members of the Fellowship.

Working and Homeless in America — A Book Talk with Brian Goldstone — Resources

“There Is No Place for Us” not only brings these unseen lives into focus but also forces us to confront a pressing question: If hard work is no longer enough to keep a roof over one’s head, what does that say about the promise of economic opportunity in the US?

Writing an Op-Ed

Learn how to draft an op-ed to advance a broader goal of policy change in this 1-hour webinar.

Communicating for Policy

Learn the basics of communicating your ideas for policy impact to stakeholders both in and outside of government in this 1-hour webinar.