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BOI and the Initiative for Inclusive Entrepreneurship (Newsletter)

At the beginning of this year, the Aspen Institute’s Business Ownership Initiative joined the Initiative for Inclusive Entrepreneurship (IIE), a national effort to expand access to capital for small businesses owned by socially and economically disadvantaged individuals.

BY Joyce Klein

10.07.2024
Small Business

Advancing CDFI Impact Through a Focus on Job Quality

For decades, Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFIs) that lend to small businesses have measured their impact in part by their support for job ...

BY Joyce Klein Lauren Starks

10.02.2024
Employment and Jobs

Empowering the Workforce: Roy Bahat on the Future of Work

In this conversation with Workonomics’ Nilesh Kavthekar, Roy Bahat — head of Bloomberg Beta, chair of the Aspen Business Roundtable on Organized Labor, ...

BY Roy Bahat Nilesh Kavthekar

10.02.2024
Employment and Jobs

Announcing the 2024 Class of Education and Career Mobility Fellows

In partnership with Guild, UpSkill America is proud to support the Education and Career Mobility Fellowship. We would like to announce the 2024/25 fellows and the second cohort.

BY UpSkill America Guild Education

10.01.2024
Employment and Jobs

Resource Roundup: What we are Reading - Issue 3, Sept 2024

What are we reading this September? The contributions of organized labor to American society extend well beyond the establishment of Labor Day as a federal holiday. The eight-hour day, minimum wage, and workplace health and safety laws, among other protections, are the result of relentless worker advocacy. But the job isn’t done.

BY Maxwell Johnson

09.24.2024
Workforce Development

Refining the Recipe: Elevating Workforce Development for a New Era

I love to cook and create dishes for people to gather around. I’ve also had an image of a kitchen I’d love to be in — one filled with chefs from some ...

BY Chris Trout

09.12.2024
Employment and Jobs

The Fellowship Effect: Lessons in Success from the Education and Career Mobility Fellowship

But can I brag a minute about these Fellows? Because we may have provided the packaging, but THEY are the gift.

BY Haley Glover

09.11.2024
Employment and Jobs

Job Quality Newsletter - Human Rights at Work

This issue of our monthly Job Quality Newsletter delves into the vital intersection of human rights and economic systems, and how we can transform the workplace

BY Matt Helmer

09.05.2024
Employment and Jobs

Labor Day Newsletter — Risks, Rewards, Regulations, and Resources

I am delighted to bring you this year’s edition of our special Labor Day newsletter. As you know, the Aspen Institute Economic Opportunities Program stri ...

BY Maureen Conway Economic Opportunities Program

09.02.2024
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