Margaret Hoover Joins the Board of The Markle Foundation
Release Date:
03/31/2021
The Markle Foundation is pleased to announce that Margaret Hoover has been elected to its Board of Directors.
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12/10/2020
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04/29/2020
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Cheryl C. Effron Joins the Board of the Markle Foundation
Release Date:
01/16/2020
The Markle Foundation is pleased to announce today that Cheryl C. Effron has been elected to its Board of Directors. Ms. Effron has spent most of her career as a New York-based real estate developer.
Pennsylvania Joins Skillful State Network, Initiative of the Markle Foundation
Release Date:
04/18/2019
Governor Tom Wolf is taking more action to help create a highly qualified and competitive workforce.
Markle Foundation’s Skillful Initiative Welcomes 35 Career Coaches From Indiana for its First Convening Governor’s Coaching Corps
Release Date:
03/19/2019
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Steven Denning Joins the Board of the Markle Foundation
Release Date:
01/15/2019
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Markle Foundation Selects Indiana as Next Skillful State
Release Date:
10/12/2018
A new organization aims to help Hoosier employers recognize the value of skills training when hiring employees for their facilities, rather than just simply looking for workers with a college degree.
Markle Foundation Initiative, Skillful, Is Going Coast-to-Coast
Release Date:
07/03/2018
Skillful has helped Colorado employers discover the value of workers without college degrees and now more states are joining in this effort to transform hiring practices and workforce development.
Ford and Markle Foundations Support National Alliance To Increase College Graduation Rates
Release Date:
04/19/2018
Eleven large research institutions, including Michigan State University, have come together across state and conference lines to increase the rate at which students from low-income and underrepresented backgrounds graduate from college.
The Markle Foundation, Colorado Governor and 20 States Launch the Skillful State Network
Release Date:
02/14/2018
Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper, Zoë Baird, CEO and president of the Markle Foundation, announced that twenty governors are joining together to form the Skillful State Network, a collaboration to transform the U.S. labor market at scale to one...
Markle Foundation Among Those Stepping Up To The Worker Retraining Challenge
Release Date:
02/06/2018
The Markle Foundation is crunching data to ensure training programs are better aligned to industrial needs.
President of Markle Foundation, Zoë Baird, on Gender Imbalance at WEF
Release Date:
01/26/2018
Women make up just 21% of attendees at the World Economic Forum, an annual gathering of elite politicians, central bankers and financiers in Davos, Switzerland. Most of the panels at the summit are also dominated by men.
Markle Foundation President and CEO Zoë Baird Writes About Where Amazon Should Build Their New Headquarters
Release Date:
12/05/2017
As it eyes a home for HQ2, Amazon should focus less on tax incentives and instead choose a location where policymakers are committed to building a skills-based labor market that prepares workers for the digital economy.
Markle Foundation's Rework America Task Force Is Bridging The Tech Skill Gap
Release Date:
10/23/2017
A recent report by the National Bureau of Economic Research estimates that hundreds of thousands of employees have been replaced by technology or robotics in the past 20 years. And an Oxford University study says 47% of American jobs could be at...
Markle Foundation-Backed Online Tools Seek to Help Close the Employment Skills Gap
Release Date:
07/10/2017
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Markle Foundation and Microsoft Partner to Accelerate a Skills-Based Labor Market for the Digital Economy
Release Date:
06/29/2017
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Markle Foundation: Trump's Infrastructure Plans Should Pair Building with Job Training
Release Date:
06/13/2017
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Markle Foundation Collaborates With LinkedIn, Arizona State and edX to Address Technology’s Impact on Jobs
Release Date:
04/14/2017
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Former Obama Chief of Staff Denis McDonough Joins Markle Foundation
Release Date:
02/15/2017
McDonough is coming to Markle as a senior principal, where he will help broaden the partnership between the foundation and other organizations, including governments and public institutions, aiming to “transform America’s outdated labor market to...