About the Families & Workers Fund
The Families and Workers Fund is a national platform for collective action and a pooled $125+ million collaborative fund supported by 40 diverse funders working together to build a more equitable economy that uplifts all. We were founded on the belief that the United States is experiencing a once-in-a-generation opening to advance economic security, opportunity, and mobility. The Fund deploys catalytic partnerships and collaboration across philanthropy, government, and the private sector to advance jobs that sustain and uplift people and to develop a more inclusive, effective public benefits system. To date, the Fund has committed more than $52 million in grants and strategic partnerships, directly impacted 1.4 million people, and leveraged more than $15 billion in additional public and private investments.
Impact Areas
21st Century Benefits aims to reimagine and repair the social safety net benefits that can help to reduce poverty and enable basic economic security by supporting catalytic solutions that make benefits easier for people to access; delivery capacity that makes public benefits easier for government to deliver; and a bold north star vision that unlocks new buy-in, action, and collaboration to improve efficacy and access, and end racial, gender, and other disparities.
Recover Up works to accelerate the delivery of quality careers that enable economic mobility for workers and families by making investments that have the momentum and potential to propel scale. Recover Up’s North Star is to create 1 million good jobs and equitable pathways into them.
Powering Good Climate and Infrastructure Careers for All portfolio sits under the Families and Workers Fund’s broader Recover Up impact structure and seeks to to scale inclusive workforce development, support effective planning and implementation, and deliver uplifting careers in climate and infrastructure sectors through investment in grants and strategic partnerships with government, companies, training and education providers, and community- and worker-centered nonprofits, targeting the climate and infrastructure workforce.