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Like other communities, the City of Beaverton, Ore., is confronting a “childcare desert” amid a shortage of workers, Mayor Lacey Beaty says. Read about how the community is tapping early childhood education students to help solve the problem, so local moms can get back to work. https://bit.ly/3Lw4bkd #FocusOn #Beaverton #Oregon #ChildCare #preschool Providence Nike Analog Devices Portland Community College Baoshu Z. Genentech Oregon Bioscience Association Oregon Startup Center IMPACT Beaverton @Patrick Gihring Worksystems Community Action Organization Early Learning Washington County West Side Works Multnomah County Allegheny Mata Laura Aka Deidra White

We have a stellar lineup of conversations in the pipeline around economic mobility, education and training, and workforce development from JFF Horizons. Can't wait to share them beginning Monday right here on LinkedIn. #WorkingNationOverheard WorkingNation Jobs for the Future (JFF) EnGen

There is a digital skills disconnect for the nation's Latino workers, with 57% reporting low to no digital skills. With 92% of all current job postings requiring some level of these critical skills, what is being done to expand access to the training needed to prepare the Latino workforce and jobseekers for the careers of today and tomorrow? Frankie Miranda, president & CEO of Hispanic Federation; Dwana Franklin-Davis, CEO of Reboot Representation; Robert Barron-Pryce, Giving Manager of Google.org; and I will be discussing this important issue Monday afternoon onstage at JFF Horizons. If you're attending the conference, we invite you to join us. https://lnkd.in/gYPGeSGs Jobs for the Future (JFF) WorkingNation #Jffhorizons #jffhorizonsonlinkedin #latinos #latinoworkforce #digitalskills #upskilling

Nearly a third of U.S. workers may lack a key requirement for most jobs today: digital skills. These days, you probably even need them in jobs where you think you don’t, such as farming. So what are these skills, why are they so essential, and how do you get them? Victoria Lim reports: https://bit.ly/3YbErRM “It’s being able to navigate digital systems, whether it’s an app, whether it’s an internet webpage, whether it’s a mobile phone, to be able to accomplish those four things – earn, learn, be well, and live well,” says Kenneth Sherin, broadband access and education coordinator and county extension director for the North Carolina State University Extension at Randolph County Center. #DigitalSkills #reskill #upskill Amanda Bergson-Shilcock National Skills Coalition Annmarie Lanesey CanCode Communities

Get set for a brand-new round of insights from thought leaders in workforce development, education and more. You'll hear about the hot topics they’re discussing at the JFF Horizons conference in Washington, D.C. - right out of their mouths and into your phone or desktop. It’s WorkingNation Overheard – starting Monday – powered by our partners at EnGen. And you can get all the insights right here on LinkedIn. Here’s what WorkingNation overheard at last year's conference: https://lnkd.in/eNKeQiFQ #WorkingNationOverheard #JFFHorizons #HorizonsOnLinkedIn #ThoughtLeadership #insights #overheard #WorkforceDevelopment #WkDev #education #GreenJobs #OlderWorkers #LatinoWorkers #ImmigrantWorkforce #OpportunityYouth Katie Brown, PhD EnGen Frankie Miranda Hispanic Federation Michelle Armstrong Ares Management Corporation Charitable Foundation Dwana Franklin-Davis Reboot Representation J. W. Carpenter Prosper Joshua Elder Siegel Family Endowment Kristina F. JFFLabs Byron Auguste Opportunity@Work Terrence Cummings Guild Rachel Korberg The Families and Workers Fund Ann Manby CWI Labs Michael Smith AmeriCorps Chrissa Pagitsas Pagitsas Advisors Allison Scott, Ph.D. Kapor Center Plinio Ayala Per Scholas Arthur Bilger WorkingNation Mona Mourshed Generation Maria Flynn Jobs for the Future (JFF) Mauricio Andres Garcia UnidosUS (@WeAreUnidosUS) Scott Pulsipher Western Governors University Ramona Schindelheim Laura Aka Katie Schindelheim Jane Oates Michael S. James George Freund

From one of our closest partners on an important topic for WorkingNation. ... Center for Workforce Inclusion CWI Labs

You drive on it all the time – but did you ever wonder who works to get asphalt onto your roads and roofs? Go inside the process and meet the people involved at one company, Blacklidge, from the office to the highway: https://lnkd.in/eC2y5xgD #GreenJobs #Mississippi #IWantThatJob Brit Blacklidge Michelle Peltier Latasha D. McCullar, CSM, CHIEF Walton Family Foundation

Sarah Keh, the vice president of corporate social responsibility at Prudential Financial, is committed to supporting opportunity youth in finding a pathway to good jobs and wealth building. She sat down with WorkingNation's Ramona Schindelheim to discuss Prudential's $180 million investment in programs that will help young people across the globe gain the right skills to compete for and succeed in quality jobs. Hear her thoughts on the latest episode of Work in Progress: A WorkingNation Podcast, recorded at the Aspen Ideas Festival. Listen at the link below.

We're looking forward to this important conversation happening next week at JFF Horizons. And thank you, EnGen, for powering WorkingNation Overheard at this year's conference starting Monday. We'll have more details on our Overheard plans, and a JFF Horizons panel WorkingNation will present, later this week. Stay tuned. #WorkingNationOverheard #JFFHorizons #HorizonsOnLinkedIn

Hear Sarah Keh, the vice president of corporate social responsibility at Prudential Financial, tell Ramona Schindelheim how Prudential is investing millions of dollars in young people, and how the resulting programs are helping “opportunity youth” build prosperous futures – on the latest Work in Progress: A WorkingNation Podcast, recorded at the Aspen Ideas Festival in collaboration with The Aspen Institute. “The reason why they have come into the situation that there are in … is not because they don’t have the will or the desire,” Keh says. “It’s oftentimes they are born into a situation that doesn’t provide them the access to the opportunities that you and I may have had in our upbringing.” Read more about it and listen to the podcast on our website at https://bit.ly/3zNm23O, listen on YouTube at https://lnkd.in/eg86M2pT, or look for Work in Progress on your favorite podcasting platform. #OpportunityYouth #WorkforceDevelopment #WkDev #AspenIdeas Year Up YouthBuild USA Per Scholas