To Boost Job Quality, Money Matters: Practical Tools for Engaging Investors and Lenders Toward Change - Job Quality in Practice Webinar

To achieve vibrant communities and expand economic opportunity, capital must play a key aligning role. Business lenders and investors, including those such as CDFIs that seek social impact as well as financial returns, are important contributors to the local economy and job creation. But what kinds of jobs are the businesses they finance creating? What kinds of jobs do we want them to create? Can we influence the quality of these jobs? And what can job quality advocates in workforce development and other fields learn from pioneering investors and lenders about strategies to measure job quality in firms and drive business practice change? This webinar is the second in our Job Quality in Practice webinar series. The panel includes Betsy Biemann (CEO, Coastal Enterprises Inc.; Job Quality Fellow, The Aspen Institute), Bhairvee Shavdia (Senior Associate, HCAP Partners; Job Quality Fellow, The Aspen Institute), Tom Woelfel (Director, Research and Consulting, Pacific Community Ventures), and moderator Mark Popovich (Director, Good Companies/Good Jobs Initiative, The Aspen Institute Economic Opportunities Program). The Job Quality in Practice series is designed to support practitioners across fields – including workforce development, economic development, capital deployment, policy, worker advocacy, and business – to address job quality in their work. Webinars share actionable tools and approaches, highlight leading practitioners’ work, and create connections across disciplines. We are grateful to Prudential Financial for its support of our Job Quality in Practice webinar series and our ongoing efforts to advance a job quality field of practice. The Economic Opportunities Program advances strategies, policies, and ideas to help low- and moderate-income people thrive in a changing economy. We recognize that race, gender, and place intersect with and intensify the challenge of economic inequality and we address these dynamics by advancing an inclusive vision of economic justice. For over 25 years, EOP has focused on expanding individuals’ opportunities to connect to quality work, start businesses, and build economic stability that provides the freedom to pursue opportunity. For more information, visit our website at as.pn/eop. Learn about new events and activities by joining our mailing list (as.pn/eopmail) and following us on social media (as.pn/eopsocial).