Scaling
Against Rushing to Scale
When impact brings pressure to expand, leaders can (and must) carefully decide when growth helps and when it hurts.
Tag: Workforce Training
Education
Reimagining Nursing Education
The predominant model for educating nurses prepares them for hospital settings. By adopting a competency-based education model rooted in community care, nursing programs can better equip their students to address the diverse health-care needs and environments of the 21st century.
Education
Doing More About Less: A Targeted Approach to Education Reform
Comprehensive reform of a single mandatory subject in Rwandan secondary schools is setting students up for real-world opportunities by aligning classroom learning with life after graduation.
Social Enterprise
Dignified Work for Disabled Kenyans
Social enterprise Riziki Source promotes professional development for one of Kenya’s most disadvantaged communities.
Education
Unlocking Africa’s Human Potential
A change-management program on human resources development aimed at mid-career professionals is helping African companies expand.
Excerpt
Economic Development
Better Skilling
An excerpt from Growing Fairly on building a more equitable system of workforce development.
Philanthropy & Funding
Funding Equity in Health Workforce Development
We need targeted investments in the entire pipeline of talent if we want to close the gap of BIPOC doctors, dentists, researchers, and health administrators.
Video
Nonprofits & NGOs
Improving an Employment Service With a Former Prisoner’s Feedback
When Betty McCay finished a 27-year prison sentence and approached the Center for Employment Opportunities for help with finding a job, the last thing she expected was to be asked for her feedback on running the program. Part of a series produced for SSIR with the support of the Hewlett Foundation.
Economic Development
Six Lessons for Getting Work Training and Employment Right
Strategies for successfully filling the skills gap for companies, and helping millions of unemployed youth and others find jobs.