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Innovate+Educate is a nonprofit focused on shifting training, hiring, and advancement strategies to ensure the over 100 million low-income workers are provided access to learning and employment leading to lifelong economic success. Our work is big system change that will support economic mobility for workers and their families.
Our Mission
To create new employment pathways for workers based on skills and competencies.
Our Vision
To strengthen our workforce by “filtering in� and providing access to training and employment aligned to high demand jobs. WHAT WE DO
HOW WE DO IT
INCUBATE We generate new ideas through research
SUPPORT We advance technology that enables
ACCELERATE We propel those ideas by aggregating
DEMONSTRATE We pilot best practice
and development directed toward actionable steps teams, funding streams, and technology in order to pilot solutions and streamline implementation
PASS IT ON We design systems to be sustainable, flexible and able to evolve past our involvement
shift in business models for supply/demand
leadership in competency-based demand-led employment and advancement solutions
ADVOCATE We foster an employer community for company-specific shift to competencies
We Speak Up We produce the
We Create
tech conference annually, and have
is identified in the market.
leading education and employment since 2013.
We create tech tools
though our tech division when a need
We Consult We are a full-service
research and tech development team working directly with industry.
INNOVATIVE BUSINESS HIRING COUNCIL
Our Team We are working to solve complex puzzles
What We Believe Traditional education to
have a team of individuals with diverse expertise
businesses, and the economy. We clearly identify
that haven’t been addressed before. That’s why we
career methodologies are failing individuals,
the gaps in the system and are passionate about
and across disciplines. We believe that when you
what we can do to close them. We are here to
bring business leaders, data scientists, industrial-
organizational psychologists, computer scientists,
designers, community organizers, hiring professionals and big dreamers together big shifts can happen.
We act like a tech start-up because everyone should! We are on the ground, we roll-up our sleeves and we
work hard because that’s how things get done. We are instigating a world-wide economic movement.
facilitate change based on thoughtful research, practical case studies, validated data and
technological know-how. Our team believes in
a system shift that will open pathways to career
success for millions of individuals while providing employers a much needed qualified workforce.
Our Framework Innovate+Educate is piloting a competency based framework across the nation. The framework assures that employers have validated tools that can support this shift in their own hiring and training strategies and workers have opportunities and pathways.
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Reward skills, training and invest in workforce
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Encourage life-long learning for retention and growth
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Engage workers based on skills assessments and training
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Skills and competencies measured and taught
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Skills and competencies valued and accepted
HIRE
Connect workers to employers for better outcomes
TRAIN
Identify opportunities for life-long learning and engagement
ADVANCE
Articulate pathways for advancement in education, training, career