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Job Quality Newsletter — 2024 Highlights

As we enter 2025, our team at the Economic Opportunities Program has been reflecting on our work and that of our wonderful partners from 2024. Over the las ...

BY Maureen Conway

Blog Post

01.22.2025
Employment and Jobs

EOP Monthly Digest — December 2024

We are pleased to present a selection of our work from the past month, including videos, commentary, events, and more.

BY Economic Opportunities Program

Blog Post

12.30.2024
Employment and Jobs

Job Quality Newsletter — Getting Started with Job Quality

Visit our new Job Quality Center of Excellence, and learn how better jobs lead to better outcomes for both workers and businesses.

BY Maureen Conway

Blog Post

12.19.2024
Employment and Jobs

Navigating the Compliance Landscape to Advance Good Jobs: Resources for Small Businesses

Description Job quality and the work of ensuring that all jobs are good jobs is intertwined with a complex landscape of laws and regulations – rules ope ...

BY Economic Opportunities Program

Publication

10.14.2024
Small Business

CDFIs Are Adding a Job Quality Lens to their Advising Work — Here’s How Your Advising Program Can Too

Many community development financial institutions (CDFIs) offer capital and education to small businesses in their communities, helping entrepreneurs — e ...

BY Rossana Espinoza

Blog Post

10.09.2024
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 & 1 more

Blog Post

10.02.2024
Microenterprise

Tools to Guide CDFI Decision-Making

Download Decision Guide (PDF) Download Financial Model (Excel) Description Community development financial institutions (CDFIs) have historically reli ...

BY Brett Simmons & 2 more

Publication

06.28.2024
Small Business

We Have New Tools To Capitalize CDFI Growth — Let’s Use Them

For decades, when community development financial institutions (CDFIs) have been asked what they need to grow, the response has been the same: “More net ...

BY Brett Simmons, & 1 more

Publication

10.11.2023