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Our Mission
To create new employment pathways for workers based on skills and competencies.
Our vision
To strengthen our workforce by "filtering in" and providing access to overlooked talent into high skilled, high demand jobs.
How We Are Accomplishing This Through Our Framework
Innovate+Educate’s assess / hire / train / advance framework implements evidence-based, employer-led strategies to drive competency and skills based hiring and training for in-demand jobs.
120
COLLECTIVE YEARS OF DISRUPTION
150+
EMPLOYER RELATIONSHIPS
142,600
JOB SEEKERS HELPED
67
GRANTS & CONTRACTS AWARDED
Employer reliance on degrees and other proxies for pedigree in the hiring process is not only hampering economic growth – it is destroying the American Dream for too many job seekers. The shift toward competency-based hiring has massive potential to unlock economic opportunity; but it requires unprecedented cooperation among educators and employers.
Ryan Craig, author of College Disrupted: The Great Unbundling of Higher Education and co-founder of University Ventures.
OUR FRAMEWORK
Innovate+Educate’s assess / hire / train / advance framework implements evidence-based, employer-led strategies to drive competency and skills based hiring and training for in-demand jobs.
Provide innovative technologies to assess skill and competencies
Help employers find the right person for the right job creating economic mobility
Aggregate training aligned to employer and workforce needs to increase competencies
Provide career path clarity, skills-based choices creating opportunities to expand careers
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Join us in our work to ensure an equitable future for all with our focus on skills for the future of working and learning.
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Innovate+Educate was founded in 2008 to create a skills-based paradigm shift for working and learning.
Founder Jamai Blivin and her team of experts spent a decade piloting strategies and technologies to ensure this shift. The Board of Directors was instrumental in supporting the organization over the decade.
I+E continues its journey in 2020 as producer of the CLOSE IT Summit (October 12-14, 2020) with a mission to ensure we provide gap funding for internships, training and experiences for the working learner.
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JUST RELEASED!
The working learner population is 1.3 times larger than the traditional learner population (meaning, full-time students working less than 20 hrs a week.) The learning worker population is 4.5 times larger. Together, the two populations are enormous drivers of change in higher education. The report elevates the need for just-in-time, bite-sized learning that makes sense for someone working and learning at the same time.
Our Mission
To create new employment pathways for workers based on skills and competencies.
Our vision
To strengthen our workforce by "filtering in" and providing access to training and employment aligned to high demand jobs.
OUR FRAMEWORK
Innovate+Educate’s assess / hire / train / advance framework implements evidence-based, employer-led strategies to drive competency and skills based hiring and training for in-demand jobs.
Our framework is fueling a nationwide adoption of new industry-driven, competency-based hiring processes critical to creating pathways to employment for the many workers struggling or left behind in the current education-to-employment system.
Help employers find the right person for the right job creating economic mobility
Aggregate training aligned to employer and workforce needs to increase competencies
Provide career path clarity, skills-based choices creating opportunities to expand careers
Employer reliance on degrees and other proxies for pedigree in the hiring process is not only hampering economic growth – it is destroying the American Dream for too many job seekers. The shift toward competency-based hiring has massive potential to unlock economic opportunity; but it requires unprecedented cooperation among educators and employers.
Ryan Craig, author of College Disrupted: The Great Unbundling of Higher Education and co-founder of University Ventures.