The Maven Collaborative

I was thrilled to attend the?National Fund for Workforce Solutions's #SHIFT2024?conference this past week. A huge thank you to?Amanda Cage, the exceptional CEO of the National Fund, and her remarkable team for organizing such an inspiring event. And to be in a city filled with incredible civil rights and music history! I was especially excited to join Amanda, Anne Elaine Price (The Maven Collaborative), and Todd Greene (WorkRise, Urban Institute) on the main stage opening plenary focused on advancing #equity in the workforce.?I discussed the significant challenges facing direct care and childcare workers and why workforce development leaders must prioritize them through policies like #skills training, #careerpathways, quality non-degree #credentials, and holistic supports. These measures are key to a sustainable future, especially for essential yet often overlooked care roles. It was also a joy to connect with so many thoughtful leaders, including my board member,?Alice Pritchard,?and my amazing team members?Megan Evans, Michael Richardson, and Caroline Treschitta. I also appreciated spending time with Mauricio Andres Garcia, Bishara Addison, Lauren N. King, Ph.D., Kermit Kaleba, Raj Borsellino, Marci (Fields) Hunn, Alejandro (Ale') Mendoza, and many others in this space. There's no question—we have the power to "shift" our workforce and economy toward real equity.

Our latest report, Living on the Brink: The True Cost of Being Californian is out! Thank you Felicia Mello from CalMatters for covering the vast amount of data available in this report. Our biggest finding has been how rising costs of childcare have made it a luxury to have children that only white families can afford. Read on to learn more! https://lnkd.in/gpzwfNjh

AFN announces a new 2-part training! All Guaranteed Income is Narrative Change: How Grantmakers Can Better Understand, Practice, and Support Narrative Change Efforts Participants will: ? learn the narrative change basics ? exchange philanthropic practices ? explore actionable opportunities to support narrative change. Training 1: September 5, 10 to 11:30am PST | Online webinar open to all funders. Training 2: October 24, 10 am to 4 pm PST | In-person workshop in Oakland, California for #funders making grants benefiting the East Bay. Learn more and register to join us here: https://loom.ly/ffZqCRk #philanthropy #changethenarrative The Maven Collaborative Y & H Soda Foundation

Our Co-President Jhumpa Bhattacharya with some words right in time for #Juneteenth

Join us on Tuesday, 6/18 at 1pm for an Instagram townhall discussion of EPI’s #RootedinRacism series on the Southern economic model and how it has failed to bring shared prosperity to the region. Watch on our instagram @economicpolicy ! EPI's Chandra Childers will host a panel with Lawren Long from the National Black Worker Center, Anne Price from The Maven Collaborative, Troy Washington from Jobs to Move America, and Katy Youker from the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law.

Our Co-president Jhumpa Bhattacharya with some important words. For more on how to responsibly steer race and gender messages in the cash space, check out her paper on the subject, Why All Guaranteed Income is Narrative Work: https://lnkd.in/ef_M83tu

NEW - We joined over 100 national public interest groups to call on Congress to use the opportunity of expiring Trump tax cuts in 2025 to reform the tax code so that the rich and corporations pay their fair share. Decades of tax giveaways for the rich and corporations have drained revenues, widened inequality, and made it harder to invest in the things our families and our country really need. The Trump tax bill made it even worse. They claimed the Trump tax law would lead to higher wages for workers. But while CEOs saw big pay raises, 90% of us did not. Corporate tax cuts in the Trump bill made it even more enticing for corporations to raise prices and squeeze consumers. With lower tax rates, corporations get to keep more of the winnings! 2025 is our chance to make real change. READ more about the tax reforms Congress must make to build an economy that benefits all of us: #TaxLetter https://lnkd.in/gb-EnuJm?

I’m so excited for this conversation! I’ve been working with Anne Elaine Price and Jhumpa Bhattacharya for several years now and have watched them surf a lot of ups and downs that mirror the larger issues in our sector. They have a lot to share. If you’re a funder or a bridge-builder who cares about racial, gender and economic justice, please join my colleagues from The Maven Collaborative, Shana Bartley from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation and Brandi Howard from the East Bay Community Foundation next month to hear how they’re centering Black women’s leadership, wisdom, and joy in their work - and how you can too! If you can’t attend live, please still register so we can get you the recording. You won’t want to miss this discussion!

Are you a funder that is interested in hearing about how the The Maven Collaborative just wrapped up it's first year in existence unapologetically centering Black women in our work to build an equitable economy? Come join our funder briefing. Anne Elaine Price and I will be serving up the real talk - mostly cause we don't know how else to be - as we share lessons learned and key findings on why it's especially important to double down on our work in the current state of backlash and general foolishness abound. Special guest stars Shana Bartley and Brandi Howard! Register today!