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....
Good news: with a new administration, millions of people unemployed, and a huge disparity between the economic impact of COVID on white workers and on people of color, there’s much thinking going on across the country and in Washington DC about how to accomplish...
This is the first in an occasional series called “Did you know?” in which DF staff present information about the various actors, and cool partners, helping job seekers to find and advance in good jobs, while helping employers find people they need and reducing the...
The Deaconess Foundation team is often learning about the inspiring work of many valuable organizations in greater Cleveland. When I say “inspiring”, that’s shorthand for so many other adjectives: productive, creative, responsive, inclusive, hard, impactful, and...
CLEVELAND – September 10, 2020 – Deaconess Foundation, a private foundation that helps people in need build careers that sustain them and their families, has selected Cathy Belk to lead the organization as its President & CEO effective Oct. 12, 2020. Belk takes...
