Personal Experiences Motivate Our Interest in Driving Change
At the Strada National Symposium, CEO and President Bill Hansen shared how his background and personal experiences influenced his interest in changing higher education.
The New Learning Ecosystem
The New Learning Ecosystem provides working-age adults with opportunities to gain the training or education they need to advance or transition to new careers at multiple stages of their lives.
Forty-Four Million Americans
Forty-four million Americans are struggling to earn enough to support their families. Even if they are working, many are underemployed and lack the postsecondary credentials or training to progress in …
The New Learning Ecosystem
Despite the rapid changes in work, the pathways to employment through education and hiring have not made as significant or important a leap. Traditional pathways to employment were designed at …
Changing the Value Equation in Higher Education
Strada Education Network believes the best way to understand whether someone’s education is valuable is to ask them. For more than three years, we’ve listened to over 340,000 Americans tell …
Innovator Spotlight: Julia Freeland Fisher on making social capital work for underresourced communities
The Clayton Christensen Institute is a think tank dedicated to improving the world through disruptive innovation in education, healthcare, and economic prosperity. Based on the theories of Harvard professor Clayton Christensen, the Institute …
The Power of Connecting
I know it’s difficult to believe, but the best part of my job in philanthropy is not giving away money. That’s fun, to be sure, but much more rewarding is …
The Power of Connecting
In Fall 2019, Strada gathered its grant recipients in Indianapolis for its first-ever Grantee Forum to share best practices in improving pathways between education and careers.
Innovator Spotlight: Code Nation’s training, networking gives under-resourced high schoolers path to IT jobs.
Code Nation is dedicated to building social equity by providing students in under-resourced high schools with the skills, professional experience, social capital, and confidence to pursue high-paying careers in technology. …
Advancing adult careers: How the power of networking can help underresourced communities
Social capital, defined as the networks you have that help you get ahead in life, is vital to success in education and employment. Yet many people who could benefit from …