Examples, models, and research on centering workers, learners, constituents
- Building Equitable Evidence of Social Impact . Pace Center for Girls. 2021
- Centering Community Voice Toolkit: A Blueprint for Incorporating Lived Experience Into the Grantmaking Process (United Way for Southeastern Michigan, 2021)
- Centering People in Our Data Practices (JFF, 2022)
- Designing a Human-Centered Workplace: A Guide for Employers. National Fund, 2022.
- Effective Change Requires Proximate Leaders (Stanford Social Innovation Review, 2020)
- Feedback’s Role in Shifting Power to Those Least Heard. Listen4Good. 2022
- Five Ways that Nonprofits Can Make Decision Making More Inclusive—and More Effective, particularly section 4 (Bridgespan Group, 2022)
- Generation Work Tools for Employer Partnerships – Capturing input from young workers (Annie E. Casey Foundation, 2021)
- Hartford’s Generation Work Initiative Prioritized Youth Voice in Its Youth Advisory Council | Perspectives from the Young Legends (Child Trends, 2021)
- High Road Training Partnership Essential Elements: Worker Voice UC Berkeley Labor Center. 2020.
- How Listening to Constituents Can Lead to Systems Change. Stanford Social Innovation Review. 2021
- Improving Work for Independent Contractors through Worker Voice and Power (WorkRise, 2021)
- Just Listening (Fund for Shared Insight – Video)
- Leadership for Policy Change (PolicyLink, 2008)
- LEAP Fellows Continue Focus on Youth Engagement and Leadership – Youth Fellows Program (Annie E. Casey Foundation, 2021)
- PAYA Youth Voice Design Sprint: Co-Designing for Equity (New America, 2021)
- Power is at the Root: How Funders and Workforce Leaders can Center Workers in the “Future of Work” (ReWork the Bay, 2021)
- Preparing Students of Color for the Future Workforce (Center for American Progress, 2021) – particularly Indiana and New Mexico case studies of utilizing a community-centered lens
- Reshaping Workforce Development in Baltimore: Ensuring Community Voice and Expertise Guide Us (Annie E. Casey Foundation, 2018)
- Strengthening Research Through Participatory Methods: Partnering with Young People to Study Persistence and Engagement in the Learn and Earn to Achieve Potential Initiative (MDRC, 2021)
- Through Photos, Young People Share Their Experiences With Generation Work – Capturing youth voice during COVID (Annie E. Casey Foundation, 2021)
- Tribal Workforce Development: A Decision-Framing Toolkit– particularly sections on Tribal Governance, Institutions, Citizen Engagement, and Leadership (National Congress of American Indians)
- What We Mean by Worker Voice (National Fund for Workforce Solutions)
- With Learners, Not for Learners: Elevating Learner Voice in CTE (AdvanceCTE, 2021)
- Worker Voice, Representation, and Implications for Public Policies (MIT Work of the Future, 2020)
Resources for learning about workforce outcomes, earnings gaps, and creating quality jobs for immigrants and BIPOC communities
- AAPI California Workers Study (AAPI Data, 2019)
- Advancing Workforce Equity (PolicyLink, 2020-2021)
- Building from the Bottom Up (Burning Glass Institute) combines analysis of the real-world career progressions of 200,000 workers together with a major survey of employers and their employees to analyze how workers move up from “poverty trap jobs” and the role employers play in their journey.
- Challenging the Business of Fear (Raise the Floor Alliance, 2017)
- Defining and Measuring the Creation of Quality Jobs (Pacific Community Ventures, 2016)
- Dimensions of Inequality: Black Immigrants’ Occupational Segregation in the United States by Rebbeca Tesfai, Kevin J. A. Thomas
- Equity, Entrepreneurship, and Economic Empowerment for Women (City and County of San Francisco, 2020) An overview of the workforce landscape and how programs work for women and other vulnerable populations.
- Examining Educational, Workforce, and Earning Divides in the Asian American and Pacific Islander Community (New American Economy)
- Gallup Job Quality Survey
- Improving Training Evaluation Data to Brighten the Future of Black Workers (Joint Center, 2022)
- The Economic Reality of the Asian American Pacific Islander Community is Marked by Diversity and Inequality, not Universal Success (Prosperity NOW, National CAPACD, 2020)
- Untapped Power: The Strength of Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Working People (APALA, 2019)
- What do Workers Value in a Job? WorkRise, 2021
- What’s Important in a Job: An Analysis of What Matters and for Whom? Urban Institute, 2021.
- Public Profit’s guide to Creative Ways to Solicit Stakeholder feedback
- Feedback Labs’ Feedback Tools Repository
