Rockefeller Foundation and 20-Plus Foundations Launch 'All In For Jobs': Over $800 Million Committed, 250 Communities Over Five Years
New York — The Rockefeller Foundation on October 26 announced that more than 20 foundations and philanthropies have launched All In For Jobs, a $1 billion initiative to connect Americans to good jobs and keep people working in the face of SI and automation. Launch partners have committed over $800 million to date.
Over the next five years, All In For Jobs will identify 250 communities across the country that have been hard-hit by economic change — whose residents have lost jobs over recent decades or face new job losses to SI and automation — and work with local leaders to help people connect to good jobs and keep them. The specific communities will be decided in the months ahead. Beginning in January 2027, partners will convene regularly to identify, test, and scale solutions.
"In communities across the nation, there are too many people who need jobs, and too many jobs that need people," said Derek Kilmer, Senior Vice President for U.S. Program and Policy at The Rockefeller Foundation. "Philanthropy has a unique role to play in helping people connect to jobs that are open right now, helping create new ones, and helping workers adapt and thrive as work evolves." He added: "We don't have all the answers yet, but we're inviting people to the table to help find them."
Rather than only creating new jobs from scratch, the initiative focuses on the missing links that keep people from jobs that are already open: childcare a worker cannot afford and local businesses cannot provide, transportation that does not reach the job, or training that never connects to the roles employers are trying to fill. Finding and fixing those barriers, community by community, is the work All In For Jobs will focus on. "AI and automation may be transforming work, but technology alone should not decide who benefits, who is left behind, or what happens to a community," said Tonya Allen, President of the McKnight Foundation. Claire Casey, president of AARP Foundation, said job displacement during economic transitions has caused lasting harm, particularly for low-income and older workers, and that this transition can be made different — building a more inclusive future where workers of all ages have the skills and opportunities to adapt and share in the prosperity the transformation can create.
Supporters include the AARP Foundation, the Community Foundation of Greater Flint, Google.org, the James S. McDonnell Foundation, the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, the McKnight Foundation, NextLadder Ventures, The Rockefeller Foundation, Stand Together, the Strada Education Foundation, StriveTogether, and 14 other organizations; the coalition is actively growing. Founded in 1913 and headquartered in New York, The Rockefeller Foundation has invested about $30 billion over 113 years to promote the well-being of humanity.
Source: GSM · USA (original Chinese edition)
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