Back in April, I wrote a blog indicating the Deaconess Foundation was commissioning a report from our partner, The Center for Community Solutions, about the flow of public and philanthropic funds into the Cuyahoga County workforce development system. The objective of...
I find the idea of “systems change” annoyingly difficult to define and understand. As I’ve tried to educate myself in search of a clear and simple way to explain it, I’ve run into many articles which have helped me, but provide only the most conceptual of...
We are so proud to announce two new Trustees joining the Board of the Deaconess Foundation. These two women share, with our existing Trustees, a deep commitment to our mission of enabling people in need to build careers that sustain themselves and their families. They...
As we’ve been considering how our work should evolve in our changing ecosystem and workforce landscape, we’ve decided to re-engage with two partnerships: 1) We are in the process of developing a performance dashboard, populated with both macroeconomic data (such as...
Why Do We Need #EqualPayDay? Today (March 24) is #EqualPayDay. The selection of the date (March 24) represents the number of days in this year (2021) women have to work, in addition to all the days in 2020, to earn the same amount men earned in 2020 for the same work....
