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How Good Jobs Support Small Business Success: Lessons from the Shared Success Demonstration – Resources

Note: This is a past event, additional resources may be available below.

Wed May 21, 2025

Date

Wed May 21, 2025
3:00pm – 5:00pm EDT

Location



Contact

    [email protected]

Hosts

  1. Economic Opportunities Program
  2. Shared Success

Articles and Publications

“Shared Success Midpoint Evaluation Overview.” Economic Opportunities Program, The Aspen Institute. April 21, 2025.“Impact Report 2023: Equity in Entrepreneurship.” ICA Fund. 2023.“Levers of Wealth Creation Report.” ICA Fund. September 5, 2023.“2024 Dayforce Living Wage Index.” Dayforce. 2024.Biemann, Betsy.“An Interview with Job Quality Fellow Betsy Biemann.” Economic Opportunities Program, The Aspen Institute. January 18, 2018. Biemann, Betsy,  and Keith Bisson. “How to Grow a Local Nonprofit Mission to Scale: 6 Points of Practice.” Nonprofit Quarterly. October 16, 2018. Steele, Greyson. “Cafe Rica Owners Provide Launching Pad For Local Makers, Artisans.” Battle Creek Enquirer. July 9, 2022. 

Podcasts

Elevating Job Quality — Job Quality and Cultural ContextElevating Job Quality — Job Quality as a Part of CDFI’s MissionElevating Job Quality- How To Talk About Job Quality with Small Businesses  

 

Websites and Additional Resources

ICA FundCoastal Enterprises, Inc.Financial Access InitiativeFour Bands Community FundEconomic Policy Institute | Low Wage WorkforceNorthern InitiativesOyate StudioSmall Firm Diaries USAvChief

 

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About Shared Success

Good jobs and strong businesses are vital to the well-being of communities across the country. Yet millions of workers struggle with poor-quality jobs, and small business owners often struggle to find and retain the employees they need. Shared Success, a project of the Aspen Institute Economic Opportunities Program (EOP), shows how building better jobs can uplift both sides at the same time. Supported by a $12 million investment from the Gates Foundation, EOP partnered with 11 community lenders to integrate job quality programming into their small business support services, supporting the needs of employees while helping small businesses succeed.

About the Economic Opportunities Program

The Aspen Institute Economic Opportunities Program hosts a variety of discussions to advance strategies, policies, and ideas to help low- and moderate-income people thrive in a changing economy. To learn about upcoming events and webinars, join our mailing list and follow us on social media.

Articles and Publications

“Shared Success Midpoint Evaluation Overview.” Economic Opportunities Program, The Aspen Institute. April 21, 2025.“Impact Report 2023: Equity in Entrepreneurship.” ICA Fund. 2023.“Levers of Wealth Creation Report.” ICA Fund. September 5, 2023.“2024 Dayforce Living Wage Index.” Dayforce. 2024.Biemann, Betsy.“An Interview with Job Quality Fellow Betsy Biemann.” Economic Opportunities Program, The Aspen Institute. January 18, 2018. Biemann, Betsy,  and Keith Bisson. “How to Grow a Local Nonprofit Mission to Scale: 6 Points of Practice.” Nonprofit Quarterly. October 16, 2018. Steele, Greyson. “Cafe Rica Owners Provide Launching Pad For Local Makers, Artisans.” Battle Creek Enquirer. July 9, 2022. 

Podcasts

Elevating Job Quality — Job Quality and Cultural ContextElevating Job Quality — Job Quality as a Part of CDFI’s MissionElevating Job Quality- How To Talk About Job Quality with Small Businesses  

 

Websites and Additional Resources

ICA FundCoastal Enterprises, Inc.Financial Access InitiativeFour Bands Community FundEconomic Policy Institute | Low Wage WorkforceNorthern InitiativesOyate StudioSmall Firm Diaries USAvChief

 

Learn More

About Shared Success

Good jobs and strong businesses are vital to the well-being of communities across the country. Yet millions of workers struggle with poor-quality jobs, and small business owners often struggle to find and retain the employees they need. Shared Success, a project of the Aspen Institute Economic Opportunities Program (EOP), shows how building better jobs can uplift both sides at the same time. Supported by a $12 million investment from the Gates Foundation, EOP partnered with 11 community lenders to integrate job quality programming into their small business support services, supporting the needs of employees while helping small businesses succeed.

About the Economic Opportunities Program

The Aspen Institute Economic Opportunities Program hosts a variety of discussions to advance strategies, policies, and ideas to help low- and moderate-income people thrive in a changing economy. To learn about upcoming events and webinars, join our mailing list and follow us on social media.

Feeling the Heat: Workplace Safety in a Warming World

For the benefit of workers, businesses, and our society, we need to build workplace heat safety into our culture, policies, and practices if we are to adapt to our warming planet. Join the Aspen Institute Economic Opportunities Program on Wednesday, July 30, at 1:30 p.m. Eastern time, on Zoom to learn about how the warming climate is affecting workers, and what policymakers, businesses, and labor are doing to keep workers safe. This event is part of EOP’s Opportunity in America conversation series.

The Future of Equal Opportunity

“The Future of Equal Opportunity,” will explore the current landscape, emerging challenges, and the strategies needed to protect and strengthen opportunity in the American workplace.

Fixing Work: Recent Lessons from the Field

The Aspen Institute Economic Opportunities Program will soon release a report, Fixing Work: Lessons from Job Quality Practitioners, based on in-depth interviews with more than 20 leaders across the country about the work they are doing to create good jobs that provide economic security, the opportunity to advance and grow, and a safe, dignified, and equitable workplace. 

How Good Jobs Support Small Business Success: Lessons from the Shared Success Demonstration – Transcript (Panel 1)

How Good Jobs Support Small Business Success: Lessons from the Shared Success Demonstration – Transcript (Panel 2)

Advising Small Businesses on Job Quality: Lessons from CDFIs

Hear from CDFIs about their approaches to building job quality advising into their work, and share your questions and comments. We are eager to hear what you think!

Job Quality Fellowship Webinar – Transcript

In addition to providing an overview of the nomination and application process, we’re pleased to welcome two Job Quality Fellows to this conversation — Neidi Dominguez Zamorano, founding executive director of Organized Power in Numbers, and Bo Delp, executive director of the Texas Climate Jobs Project — who will share their experience as members of the Fellowship.

Working and Homeless in America — A Book Talk with Brian Goldstone — Resources

“There Is No Place for Us” not only brings these unseen lives into focus but also forces us to confront a pressing question: If hard work is no longer enough to keep a roof over one’s head, what does that say about the promise of economic opportunity in the US?

Marketcrafters: The 100-Year Struggle To Shape the American Economy — A Book Talk with Chris Hughes

Markets and our economy don’t just happen — they’re crafted. While we often hear about the “free market” as a natural force governed by the invisible hand, the reality is far more intentional.

Working and Homeless in America — A Book Talk with Brian Goldstone – Transcript

“There Is No Place for Us” not only brings these unseen lives into focus but also forces us to confront a pressing question: If hard work is no longer enough to keep a roof over one’s head, what does that say about the promise of economic opportunity in the US?