$4M Grant From Ford Foundation Helps Georgetown's Kalmanovitz Initiative Support Working Families

Georgetown DC

15 February, 2021

10:47 AM

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Press release from Georgetown University: January 13, 2021 Above: Participants gather to celebrate following a 2019 advocacy event led by the Kalmanovitz Initiative. Thanks to a $4 million grant from the Ford Foundation, the Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor will work with partners, including the Center on Innovation in Worker Organization at Rutgers University and the Action Center on Race and the Economy, to continue to develop a national network of community organizations, unions, and other worker advocacy groups that are collaborating to confront the complex problems workers face in the 21st century economy. The three-year grant from the Ford Foundation's Future of Work(ers) program will support a network launched by the Kalmanovitz Initiative called Bargaining for the Common Good. The Initiative will use the funds to broaden and deepen its collaborations with partner organizations as they cope with the combined impact of COVID-19 and deep-seated structural inequalities faced by working families and communities. "The Ford Foundation funding will help the Kalmanovitz Initiative expand and deepen the work of the Bargaining for the Common Good network at a time of profound crisis for working people," says Joseph A. McCartin, executive director of the Initiative. "Ford's support will help our network advance plans to confront the momentous challenges working people face in this crucial moment." This press release was produced by Georgetown University.The views expressed here are the author's own.