Hope Street Group

Filing Period

Jul 1, 2012 to Jun 30, 2013

Signed

Mar 24, 2014

Return Version

2012v2.0

Gross Receipts

$2,196,567

Mission

Major Activities

Activity 2

JOBS AND WORKFORCEHope Street Group has brought together a bipartisan and cross sector (business, education, policy, technology, youth, faith, etc) group of 50 plus leaders and innovators to co-create and support game-changing solutions to transform a fragmented hodgepodge of educational, workforce, and employer programs into an American Skills System fit for a dynamic 21st century economy. It builds a new bipartisan coalition to make federal policy supportive of these innovations at the national, state, and metropolitan levels. This approach is similar to Hope Street Group's successful K-12 education bipartisan working group, active in 2007-2008, which conceived and proposed a "Race to the Top" approach to federal policy that laid the groundwork for what would be become the US Department of Education's $4.3 billion Race to the Top competitive grant program, legislated as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. The second project within jobs is Hope Streets Digital Career Passport project, which we're working to prototype in collaboration with LinkedIn, Manpower, California Community Colleges, the Direct Employers Association, and a growing set of employer and technology partners. Initially aimed at young Americans (age 16-25), the Digital Career Passport will be a powerful platform to empower students and workers with the necessary tools and information from early in their secondary education through their entry into the job market and beyond, will help educational and vocational institutions provide more economically valuable training for jobs, meaningful careers, and lifelong learning, and will help employers look beyond crude indicators (e.g., years of experience, length of unemployment) to find undervalued job seekers who can be successful employees. It will also provide better tools for community-based organizations, high school counselors and others to more effectively guide young people toward robust opportunities. You can find more information about Hope Street Groups Jobs and Workforce initiative here. We are working to enlisting all the talents and capacities of American business, technology innovators, social entrepreneurs, government, and civic institutions to build an American Skills System that enables young Americans trying to get a step onto the ladder to find their own path to opportunity and fulfillment, helps all Americans to thrive in the context of meaningful work, and strengthens our economy. Hope Streets efforts have gained significant momentum in the past three months, with growing interest from policy makers, and numerous partner institutions stepping up to contribute their expertise, infrastructure, and support. We see a window of opportunity to change the trajectory of the jobs debate and outcomes in the next 12-24 months. We are looking to bring additional employers and technology partners into the mix. We are fortunate to have interest from institutional philanthropy to fund elements of this program. We also need flexible funding from individuals who want to contribute to such solutions to be able to continue to move policies and platforms quickly to reality.

Activity 3

Our 2013 Colloquium last March convened more than 80 influential thinkers from the fields of economics, business, government, education, health care, and more and challenged them to work together to create practical, innovative solutions that can be converted into action and, ultimately, results. The Colloquium energized and built momentum across our working partners, donors and new supporters and has lead to continued cultivation of donors and active networking opportunities across the country. It is a venue to bring stakeholders together to discuss how to implement solutions to these challenges from both the federal and local levels. Colloquium participants discussed challenges and barriers, and then built concise sets of interventions by looking at incentives and other behavior variables that will allow more opportunities to create a common language between all relevant stakeholders.

Filer

EIN

45-0497577