Baltimore Workforce Funders Collaborative
About the Group
The Baltimore Workforce Funders Collaborative is a group of private and public funders established to support the alignment and pooling of resources around common workforce development goals and strategies. The Collaborative is committed to advancing equity, job quality and systems change efforts that lead to family-sustaining wages, strengthened communities, and a vibrant local economy.
We envision the Baltimore region as a place of equity and shared prosperity, where all communities and workers can access employment that brings dignity and enables families to thrive and build wealth.
Together, our Collaborative:
- Provides resources and thought partnership to support strategies and tactics that are aligned with the BWFC’s mission and vision,
- Helps increase overall investment by aggregating investments, attracting external resources, and forging partnerships,
- Takes risks to catalyze and incubate new approaches and ideas,
- Creates and sustains local momentum to change narratives, expand practices, and improve policies to support workforce equity,
- Drives aligned grantmaking and collective action, and
- Share learnings to help improve outcomes and support our grantees.
The BWFC is a national network partner of:
Shift Work Forward is redefining what workforce systems can achieve—making them more inclusive, responsive, and effective. Its work is powered by a network of local leaders who understand their communities and the impact of racial inequities on the people they serve.
Shift Work Forward equips its Network Partners (like the BWFC) with tools, resources, and a national platform to test ideas, celebrate progress, and share what’s working. Together, we are influencing the systems that shape workers’ lives—improving job quality, informing workplace practices, and advancing a future where every worker can thrive and every job is a good job.
What We Do
For over a decade, The Baltimore Workforce Funders Collaborative funder members have gathered monthly for conversations about topics related to our collective strategies and goals. The group revised it's strategic framework in 2023 and set forth a renewed vision and operating strategy rooted in shared conversation, co-creation, and action.
