Location matters: New ESG Tool highlights importance of holistic approach to site selection
This is the first tool to provide site selection metrics that directly impact ESG strategies and initiatives, and it enables decision-makers to include considerations of talent, equity and sustainability alongside traditional factors related to time, risk and cost.
Announcing 2022-2024 Strategic Plan and New Board Leadership
New Board Leadership to Advance 2022-2024 Plan
Work Culture Clash
…in the employer roundtables happening around the region as part of our analysis, much of what we’re hearing from participating employers is focused on figuring out what’s wrong with today’s workers—and not so much about what might be wrong with today’s work.
State of Our Workforce: March 2022
This month, National Fund President and CEO Amanda Cage is joined by Bishara Addison, director of job placement at the Fund for Our Economic Future, for a conversation on women in the workforce.
Bar owner to examine turnover, retention in his industry
Watterson helped guide a task force to ensure that local venues received federal COVID-19 relief funds. Now, he’s working with the Fund For Our Economic Future organization, aimed at advancing job growth, and improving workforce systems.
Crain’s editorial: The innovation game
The goals for 2030 — about $2 billion in research investment, $4 billion in capital invested in tech-led companies and big growth in technology jobs, all with diverse representation — are achievable if we find ways to work more collaboratively and harness the region’s best ideas.
Can Greater Cleveland be a tech-led growth leader by 2030? Cleveland Innovation Project sets goals for next steps
“Innovation” is a popular word used to brand many different projects around Cleveland, but the CIP is more of a strategy than a physical thing. Shah and other leaders described it as a way to get Greater Cleveland’s many organizations and projects all moving toward the same goals.
Cleveland Innovation Project releases 2021 outcomes, 2022 objectives
The alliance of the Cleveland Foundation, the Fund For Our Economic Future, the Greater Cleveland Partnership, JumpStart and TeamNEO known as the Cleveland Innovation Project released an annual update Tuesday, March 8,
More resources, yes. But what public transit agencies really need are more flexible resources.
In short, we need more resources—and those resources must be flexible enough to enable necessary adaptation—to meet employment needs in today’s world.
What’s Behind Workers’ Decisions? We’re Asking Them.
…to understand why people quit, why they stay, what keeps them from working if they want or need to, and how their perceptions and values around work have evolved through the seismic societal shifts we’ve all experienced over the last several years.
