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Thought Leadership That Moves the Needle
We work as a team, and in collaboration with clients and strategic partners, to capture our learnings from the field and produce insights that move us toward a more equitable, inclusive and skills-first labor market.
Beyond Policies And Practices: For DEI Success, Focus On People
Grads of Life reflects on a critical component for successful implementation of DEI best practices that companies often overlook.
Strada Education: Lessons Earned Podcast: Gerald Chertavian
Gerald Chertavian, Founder & CEO, Year Up, discusses building career pathways for low income youth through training and employer support.
The Biden Administration Cannot Forget Its Most Critical Partner In Economic Recovery: The Private Sector
Elyse Rosenblum explores the Biden Administration’s opportunity for robust public-private partnership to drive an equitable economic recovery.
Skills-Based Hiring Alone Won’t Solve Your Inclusion Problem
Three unavoidable truths about what it really takes to ensure skills-based hiring strategies don’t fall flat in the workplace.
How Equity Investors Can Scale Inclusive Employment
Equity investors have a unique opportunity to drive inclusive employment at scale.
How Businesses Should Address Systemic Racism
As we celebrate Black History Month, it is important to reflect on entrenched systemic racism & how inclusive hiring can help change that to build a more just nation.
Hiring Talent Without College Degrees: What It Really Takes
Hear from Grads of Life’s Lara Bach on what it takes to successfully remove degree requirements for skills-based hiring.
How Reimagining Employment Practices Can Advance Racial Justice
Leaders of Year Up and Grads of Life, Gerald Chertavian and Elyse Rosenblum, reflect on the power of advancing racial equity through employment.
3 Takeaways For Business Leaders Amid New Corporate Commitments
Grads of Life Founder Elyse Rosenblum reflects on new corporate initiatives making specific commitments to inclusive employment, and how all employers can learn from them.
OneTen: A coalition of CEOs committed to measurable change
In December 2020, the business community mobilized to take on their responsibility to building racial equity in a powerful way.
Talent Pipeline Management Resource Model
This guide helps to bridge the divide between workforce training providers and the business community to enable stronger partnerships.
Generation Employed’ Webinar with Urban Alliance
This webinar highlights how youth employment is more important than ever in the COVID economy.
Connecting Opportunity Population Talent to Better Career Pathways
Grads of Life Director Phil Price leads an engaging discussion with employers on utilizing the TPM Opportunity Populations Resource Guide.
Show Me The Equal Money
Achieving pay equity is fundamental to driving a more equitable and inclusive labor market, but it can be more complicated than it seems.
Leveraging Opportunity Employment To Advance Racial Justice In Corporate America
Economic opportunity and racial justice are intrinsically linked, and employers have a significant role to play in advancing both.
5 Key Takeaways From HBS Seminar On The Future Of Work
Several workforce experts discuss the future of work during a seminar at Harvard Business School.
Black Lives Matter
Grads of Life supports every effort to end systemic racism and racial injustice in and out of the workplace.
Putting People First To Rebuild A Stronger Economy: A Conversation With Ochsner Health
How Ochsner Health has managed through the pandemic and downturn with equity at the center of their approach.
Rapid Innovation For A More Equitable Economy
COVID-19 has forced businesses to rapidly innovate in ways that might, and should, stick around.
The Shared Value Of Inclusive Economic Recovery
Economic recovery presents an opportunity for a reset: businesses should recognize the potential to create shared value for their organizations, employees, and communities.
COVID-19 widens the Opportunity Gap
COVID-19 has exacerbated inequity, making corporate action to protect and support employees more important than ever.
Putting People First: 3 Crisis Principles For Employers
Grads of Life created three Crisis Principles for Employers in response to the COVID-19 crisis to support equity-focused employers navigate the impacts of the virus.
Supporting Equity In The Transition To Remote Work
With remote work now mandated for a majority of the US workforce, employers must keep equity and inclusion in mind as they adapt to this new reality.
Opportunity Employment: Resilience In The Face Of Crisis
Exploring how Opportunity Employers responded to COVID-19.
Opportunity Employment: 4 Trends Being Escalated By COVID-19
The COVID-19 pandemic has led to a greater awareness of the value of inclusive business leadership.
How To Lead In A Time Of Crisis
How making the right decisions for employees and customers strengthens businesses during crisis and into the future.
Future Proof Your Workforce
Inclusive employment must be a central part of the growing movement for purpose-driven business.
Work Rebooted: Preparing For The Future Of Work
Learn about Bank of America’s approach to being an Opportunity Employer.
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