Workforce Development

This playbook helps companies navigate the process for hiring and supporting people returning from incarceration, breaking down everything from legal and HR hurdles to the human elements of making hiring programs a long-term success. Divided into discrete, bite-sized content, it makes it easier for companies to answer the question, “Where to begin?”

Inside Slack’s bold bet on training formerly incarcerated people to be tech workers – Fast Company

People exiting incarceration often struggle to find a job—and the idea of a full-fledged career is almost beyond conceiving. But through private and public partnerships, formerly incarcerated individuals are provided with professional development in leadership, entrepreneurship, and technological skills. Small scale successes show the promise of pre-release interventions, and the benefit of breaking the stigma of a criminal record.

Confronting inequity, restoring the promise of work, and broadening opportunities are essential to building a more free, just, and equitable world.

Leaders of for-profit and private organizations play a consequential role in breaking the cycle of recidivism and unrealized employment.

Confronting inequity, restoring the promise of work, and broadening opportunities are essential to building a more free, just, and equitable world.

We are seeking partners to receive challenge grants, curriculum materials, and training to deliver Workforce Leadership Academies.

Confronting inequity, restoring the promise of work, and broadening opportunities are essential to building a more free, just, and equitable world.

Here are seven lessons around prospecting, recruitment, and engagement based on our experience working with Pacific Community Ventures.

Workforce organizations can unlock worker expertise and engagement in ways that strengthen job quality, equity, and the business bottom line.