Just Decisions
Technology Product
Just Decisions organizes ready-to-work talent with previous arrest or conviction histories and matches them with employers needing qualified talent.
📍 National🏭 Workforce Development
The Innovation Fund
Funding bold, worker-centered ideas.
We invest in new ideas for and with workers.
Since 2014, The Innovation Fund has invested $8 million in 100 innovators.
Our portfolio of innovators is 75% entrepreneurs of color and 65% women-led.
Innovators
Meet past Innovation Fund winners.
Omniscale.io
Technology Product
Omniscale.io empowers direct-to-consumer e-commerce small business owners to expand into new B2B sales channels through data and automation, increasing profitability and reducing reliance on costly paid marketing.
📍 National🏭 E-commerce
Starlight
Technology Product
Starlight is seeking new ways to help struggling working families more easily access government benefits.
📍 National🏭 Public Benefits
The Drivers Cooperative
Worker Ownership or Co-ops
The first driver-owned ride-hailing cooperative in the United States.
📍 New York, NY🏭 Transportation
Los Deliveristas Unidos
Organizing or Activism
An immigrant-led organizing effort winning historic protections for app-based delivery workers.
📍 New York, NY🏭 Food Service
Reclamo
Legal Protections
A tool helping workers file wage-theft claims and know their rights.
📍 California🏭 Multiple
FreeWorld
Job & Skills Training
Trucking training and job placement for people leaving incarceration.
📍 National🏭 Job Placement
Milk with Dignity
Policy Advocacy
Farmworker-designed labor standards adopted by dairy buyers to guarantee dignity and safety.
📍 Vermont🏭 Agriculture, Forestry
Rural Ideas Network
Research, Tool or Framework Development
Building infrastructure for rural entrepreneurship centered on worker communities.
📍 Rural US🏭 Multiple
Co-op Dayton
Worker Ownership or Co-ops
A community-owned cooperative ecosystem creating dignified jobs and food access.
📍 Dayton, OH🏭 Food Service
Thunder Valley CDC
Worker Education
Lakota-led community development creating housing and economic self-determination.
📍 Pine Ridge Reservation, SD🏭 Construction
Canary
Technology Product
An emergency cash platform partnering with employers to deliver rapid support to workers facing crisis.
📍 National🏭 Multiple