American Family Insurance Institute for Corporate and Social Impact

Really interesting news from our portfolio company Beam, Formerly Edquity as it seeks to demonstrate the impact of direct cash to reform childcare payment policies and influence future decisions around compensation for home-based childcare providers. This work helps fulfill the company's original mission to promote family economic mobility. #closingequitygaps

Pittsburgh-based Honeycomb Credit raised a $6M Seed+ co-led by SustainVC, Muditā Venture Partners and the American Family Insurance Institute for Corporate and Social Impact: https://lnkd.in/e-iZB2RR

Our soon-to-be-released worker survey shows the potential of English upskilling to bridge a critical disconnect between the growing multilingual workforce and the employers looking to fill acute labor shortages. Join us on June 11 as we introduce key findings from this report with leading workforce experts Katie Brown, PhD, Yaron Schwartz from Tent Partnership for Refugees , Courtney Vandiford, MBA, MA from Whole Foods Market, and Laura Aka from WorkingNation. Learn how English upskilling could be the key to boosting recruitment and retention efforts in your organization. #upskilling #ESL #recruitment #retention https://lnkd.in/eveFUFWp

It's not too late to sign up for what promises to be an interesting conference featuring our friend Que El-Amin and conversations about fair chance hiring. Details are below.

ICYMI: Our portfolio company BookNook 📚 is launching its online math tutoring program for K-8 students. It's already a leader in helping kids advance their reading abilities and now it's adding a data-informed approach to math intervention to help students gain confidence and skills. https://lnkd.in/gp8N2aw9

Nice recognition of the English-Language Learning work done by our portfolio company EnGen in the 2023 Environment, Social, and Governance report from Gap Inc.

We want to introduce you to Vanessa Perez and her mother, Yolanda Cobos. We met them at last night's Hispanic Mother Daughter Program graduation at Arizona State University. Vanessa will be the first in her family to go to college in the fall when she enrolls at ASU to study community health with a goal of becoming a nurse. "Being part of the first generation is very exciting, but this program helps because there’s nobody that I can really talk to (about college)," Vanessa told us. "These people here are willing to spend time with us and answer our questions. It's another way of helping us succeed.” We LOVE this program.

🏆 Congratulations to our portfolio company Bark for receiving the Mom's Choice Awards Honoring Excellence Seal of Approval for their Bark Phone for Kids. It's a testament to their commitment to safeguarding children online and offline. #FamilySafety #InternetSafety https://lnkd.in/gvZRsxwg

We're excited for next week's Hispanic Mother Daughter Program graduation Arizona State University. We asked one of the Phoenix area high school principals why this program is so important. Her answer is an example of what #ClosingEquityGaps looks like.

As Fair Chance month comes to an end, we wanted to highlight the great work Andrew Glazier and Defy Ventures are doing around the country. We partnered with them and the Wisconsin Department of Corrections at the Ellsworth Correctional Center to provide support to the facility's Entrepreneurs in Training. 95% of people incarcerated will get out. Giving them tangible skills and hope for when that happens is essential. Our colleague Monique Williams leads this partnership to #CloseEquityGaps and we thank her for it.