Deaconess Foundation Blog
New Ways we are Informing Deaconess Foundation Work
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?
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....
Lots O’ Legislation in the News
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...
Did you Know? OhioMeansJobs Office
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...
A New Year, A New Focus
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...
Deaconess Foundation Names Cathy Belk President & CEO
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...
GCP RITE Chosen as Workforce Connect IT Sector Partnership Intermediary
We are thrilled to share the news that the Cuyahoga County Workforce Funders Group, a public-private partnership that unveiled a $2.5 million commitment in 2018 to support workforce system realignment, has chosen RITE, the tech talent arm of the Greater Cleveland...
Our Statement on Structural Racism
2020 has been a year of deep, historic challenges, from the most destructive pandemic to grip the world in the past century to a sustained wave of protests over racial inequity and police violence that has filled streets in cities and towns across the nation. While...
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