Systems Change Projects
ReWork Philanthropy Community of Practice
We are rewriting the script on grant-making, placing the spotlight where it truly belongs – on the remarkable individuals and organizations actively driving the essential work to bring about this transformation.
Building Worker Power Through Workforce Development
When workers understand their rights and have the power to insist employers uphold them, it improves job quality for all workers. Building Worker Power through Workforce Training engages workforce programs as allies in equipping workers with these critical tools.
Bay Area Essential Workers Agenda
The Bay Area Essential Workers Agenda, anchored by ReWork the Bay and in partnership with the San Francisco Foundation’s Worker Center Learning Cohort, engages over one thousand workers across the Bay Area. This platform and campaign seeks to assess how the pandemic has impacted the lives of workers and their communities, develop worker leadership across region and industry, and define standards for an equitable economy from the worker perspective.
Job Quality for Workforce Providers
Client-facing staff in workforce development organizations have difficult jobs. People of color, and often with traumatic lived experience, are disproportionately tasked with assisting job seekers in overcoming personal and professional challenges while grappling with compassion fatigue and their own vicarious trauma. These circumstances impact these workers personally as well as strains their ability to provide the highest quality services to the jobseekers and students they serve.
Advancing Workforce
Our Equity at Work Council partnered with PolicyLink and the National Fund for Workforce Solutions to develop a set of data indicators that tell a more nuanced story about racial equity gaps in our region’s workforce, and put forward recommendations for a just economic recovery.
A Worker-Centered “Future of Work”
ReWork the Bay is partnering with Working Partnerships USA and Jobs with Justice SF to develop a framework and recommendations for funders and workforce leaders to understand the “Future of Work” in a way that centers the worker perspective and prioritizes racial and economic equity.
Re-Imagining a Bay Area Workforce System Grounded in Racial and Gender Equity
Using both qualitative and quantitative research, Insight Center for Community Economic Development examined historical policies, practices, and narratives that drive racial and gender inequity in Bay Area workforce systems.
Project Signal
This Bay Area education and workforce data transparency pilot unlocks existing data to enable low-income Bay Area residents to access personalized education and employment pathways to quality, secure and family-sustaining jobs.
Bay Area Undocumented Cash Relief Network
ReWork the Bay, in partnership with the San Francisco Foundation and the Grove Foundation, is leading a collaborative nine-county effort to increase coordination and collaboration among existing relief funds serving undocumented community members, identifying and filling gaps where cash relief access does not exist, and building the capacity of all funds to ensure maximum efficiency and security in distributing relief.
On-Demand and On-Edge: Ride Hailing and Delivery Workers in SF
The San Francisco Local Agency Formation Commission (SF LAFCo) partnered with Jobs With Justice SF, Jobs With Justice Education Fund, UC Santa Cruz and Driver’s Seat Cooperative on a large survey of transit-oriented gig workers in San Francisco to better understand labor practices and the impact on public systems of large gig companies such as Uber, Lyft, Postmates and DoorDash.