New Grantees
WorkRise's new slate of grantees explores innovative strategies to enhance worker mobility, well-being, and economic opportunity.
Meet our grantees
WorkRise's new slate of grantees explores innovative strategies to enhance worker mobility, well-being, and economic opportunity.
Grantmaking and Partnerships
Led by a cross-sector Leadership Board that is ideologically diverse and representative of often-siloed groups, WorkRise invests in research on policies, programs, and practices that have the potential to accelerate economic security and mobility for low-wage workers. We fund analyses and the creation of data that shed light on labor market barriers, trends, and opportunities. And we engage in strategic partnerships that help advance evidence-based solutions in support of our mission. Learn more about our most recent request for proposals and how you can collaborate with WorkRise.
The Latest
Skills and training
Last updated on June 18, 2024How to Expand Access to Good Clean Energy Jobs among Women and People of Color
New research shows women and people of color are underrepresented in the potential workforce for high-quality clean energy jobs. Universities, employers, and unions can play a role in creating a more diverse workforce.
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Skills and training
Last updated on June 04, 2024WorkRise Shorts: Applying AI to Rebuild Middle Class Jobs with David Autor
Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor David Autor asks what artificial intelligence could enable people to do and who could be enabled by this tool.
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Economic context
Last updated on June 11, 2024Better Local Labor Market Conditions Can Help Reduce the Risk of Reincarceration in the United States
Formerly incarcerated people who face better local labor market conditions when they are released from prison are estimated to face lower likelihoods of being reincarcerated.
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Job search and matching
February 22, 2022
Changemaker Q&A
Activating Pathways for Mobility: A Q&A with Opportunity@Work
WorkRise grantee Opportunity@Work is building a movement to dismantle structural inequities in the labor market to expand opportunity to workers without college degrees.
Economic context
February 22, 2022
Article
New and Noteworthy: Research on discrimination in lending, a new equity-focused institute for direct care workers, and more
Structural racism has shaped the labor market and employment experiences of Black workers, but evidence that leads to action can help dismantle harmful policies and practices and rebuild equitable ones in their place.
Employer practices
January 24, 2022
Article
New Evidence Shows Internal Labor Markets Favor Higher-Wage over Lower-Wage Workers
A recent paper from researchers at the MIT Sloan School of Management finds occupational stratification limits the benefits that internal hiring can bring to the workers who most need upward mobility.
Employer practices
January 25, 2022
Article
New and Noteworthy: Research on predictable scheduling laws, postsecondary decisionmaking among youth, and more
New and Noteworthy highlights new research and data to inform policies, practices, and programs designed to strengthen workers’ economic security and pathways for mobility in the US labor market.