Impact Stories from Partners Who Are Shaping the Future of Work
Stand Together Trust partners with policy influencers to transform human potential through work.
Our community partners are among the most innovative and effective organizations in America. Explore these resources to get inspiring stories, ideas, and advice from changemakers who are transforming the future of work.
Our Partners in Action
Opportunity@Work’s newly launched STARs Public Sector Hub brings together state and local governments to implement skills-based hiring practices that open more opportunities for workers skilled through alternative routes.
With Third Sector’s SIMPLE framework, learn how state governments can simplify and streamline the structures and tools that help individuals fund lifelong learning.
Access NCSL’s policy briefs on degree elimination, state workforce system redesign, and Earn to Learn’s matched savings program.
Better Future Forward’s finance coalition aligns providers around shared principles for affordable, accessible, and accountable private finance models. Read about their Case and Framework for Action.
Ascent Funding and Per Scholas partnered to develop a Zero Percent Interest loan program for individuals enrolled in Per Scholas End User Desk Support or IT Support courses.
The Cicero Institute is working across the country to change the status quo from “degree-required employment” to a more open approach that hires employees based on skills, mindset, and aptitude.
Students from Free World and Better Future Forward found better ways to finance their education. Learn how outcomes-based loans are expanding opportunities for students without the burden of traditional student debt.
In partnership with Opportunity@Work, NGA’s Skills in the States Community of Practice leads 22 states and 1 territory in the implementation of skills-based hiring initiatives.
Earn to Learn, a successful matched-savings model, is launching a pilot program to test flexible funding from philanthropic, state, and federal sources for college alternatives.
Merit America combines online skills training with tailored coaching to help people access upwardly mobile careers that tap into their unique gifts and talents. Three months after graduation, alumni have an average wage increase of $24,000.
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