CASE STUDY – HOW THEY USE X4IMPACT
CWI Labs – Economic Mobility for Black and Hispanic Communities
Nonprofit Accelerates Ideation and Funding, thanks to Private Wiki Collaboration and Access to Market Intelligence
SOCIAL IMPACT
CWI Labs leverages data and technology to identify the skills that will lead to lasting economic opportunity, confront the systemic inequities in workforce development, and develop solutions for job seekers in traditionally underserved communities.
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PROBLEM
- Need to diversify funding in this issue area, beyond federal programs, with new corporate and philanthropic sources
- Need to find implementation partners to create an AI-based solution for economic mobility
- Need to interact in a cost-effective way, with a fragmented ecosystem of tech solution providers and local workforce development organizations
X4IMPACT SOLUTION AND BENEFITS
- Created a Premium Managed Challenge Page to drive awareness with a professional virtual Concept Note and Pitch Document to connect with nonprofits and potential funders
- Uses the private wiki functionality of the Challenge Page to collaborate with experts and document the barriers associated with the economic mobility of Black and Hispanic families
- Found a Tech Partner to create AI applied to identify systemic barriers to Economic Mobility
FUTURE PLANS AND IMPACT
- Get funding via new Grant Opportunities discovered on X4Impact
- Publish solution on X4Impact Solutions Marketplace to reach Nonprofits and Workforce Development Agencies, aggregated by the AI-based platform to support Economic Mobility
“X4Impact is a powerful platform that accelerates our ideation and funding phase of powerful AI to address the urgent needs of our vulnerable communities”
Gary A. Officer | Founder, CWI Labs, President & CEO, Center for Workforce Inclusion
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