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In addition, WFN was able to host events throughout the duration of the pilot initiative that shared insights and expertise from member funds on how to shift the narrative towards change, such as Cultural and Narrative Change Strategies for Advancing Women’s Economic Security. Conversations and strategy sessions in 2020-2021 focused on the implications of the current.
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This cradle-to-career engagement for student success and community impact grows a talent pipeline. MDC’s Networking for Southern Economic Mobility virtual learning series offered a space for communities to discuss strategies, tackle challenges, and develop solutions to creating opportunity and equity for youth and young adults across the South. With access to funding, capacity building support, and shared learning opportunities, WEMH cohort members leveraged their expertise to change the systems and policies in their communities. Part of the San Jos Evergreen Community College District, the Community College Center for Economic Mobility uses an equity lens to focus first on families in our richly diverse communities for educational opportunity and economic mobility. The goal of this initiative was to provide lasting advancements in economic mobility and workforce development and to provide research and data that supports gender equity funders for the next phase of change in community services, philanthropic practices, and policy development. In 2020, the Women’s Funding Network, in partnership with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, set out to establish a new initiative, known as the Women’s Economic Mobility Hub (WEMH) to invest in 9 different women’s funds and foundations across the country who were experimenting with place-based models to increase economic mobility for women and their families. What We Do Women’s Economic Mobility Hubs Women’s foundations have a long history of working to address women’s economic security and mobility within their own communities across the country.