25 Sep 2025
How businesses can unlock opportunities for young workforce
Participants in our 2025 Youth Skills and Employment Accelerator attended the Horizons: Dare to Be Brave – Jobs for the Future 2025 summit in New Orleans.
News and events
Explore the latest news and events from the Global Business Coalition for Education. From high-level meetings and expert commentary to partner announcements and project milestones, our updates keep you informed and inspired. See how business leaders and partners are driving impact and creating opportunities for young people worldwide.
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From Uncertainty to Opportunity: Unlocking Workforce Potential from Gen Alpha to Gen Z
12:30 - 2:00pm EDT
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Youth Skills and Employment Accelerator Virtual Fair
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Driving Corporate Impact for Global Education
11:00am - 12:00pm EST
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Harnessing the Power of East Africa’s Youth: Skills and Employment for the Next Generation
9:00am - 1:30pm EAT
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Harnessing AI for the Future of Africa
12:30 - 2:00pm EDT
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Public Private Partnership Roundtable
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Act For Early Years: Private sector panel co-hosted with Theirworld, Sesame Workshop and ECDAN
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Unlocking better business partnerships for your nonprofit through ESG
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From early childhood to the climate crisis: Annual luncheon during the 78th UN General Assembly
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Bridging the Gap Together: Empowering Youth for Future Workforce Success
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Ukraine House Reception
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Investing in inclusion
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Crisis briefing for business: education and Ukrainian refugees
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Digital Inclusion: A challenge greater than any one company
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From Billions to Trillions: Investing in the Next Generation
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Youth Skills and Employment Accelerator Virtual Fair: An interactive event for companies, foundations and nonprofits
If your company wants to make a difference, put education at the core of ESG
Our name—the Global Business Coalition for Education—hints at the core of our work but leaves a lot unexplained. Our colleague Emily Friedman has been fine-tuning our strategy. We asked her for an update that you can read in under 90 seconds.
Businesses can increase their return on investment by recruiting people with disabilities
As the U.S. and other countries reel from a shortage of skilled workers, they are missing a way to fill the gap. The answers wait in our schools, our families, our places of worship: people with disabilities.
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Making education better, one teacher at a time
Meet Shayna Fox-Norwitz, executive director of NE Basecamp, which supports educators in Rhode Island. NE Basecamp was a finalist in our Big Ideas, Bright Cities challenge in 2022.
Interviews
Major survey shows 1 in 4 American parents forced to quit their job or drop out of education to fund childcare
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$100,000 Grant Challenge Highlights “Skills-Friendly Cities”
Dell Technologies and Deloitte support the Big Ideas, Bright Cities Challenge with the Global Business Coalition for Education
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It’s all in our name
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Taking low-income youth from high school to home ownership
Interview: Mark Martin is founder and CEO of Build UP, the first workforce development high school in the US. It provides low-income youth from hard-hit Ensley, Alabama with paid apprenticeships and a path to stable employment and home ownership.
Interviews
Big Ideas Bright Cities Challenge: Story behind the scenes
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Major survey shows 1 in 4 American parents forced to quit their job or drop out of education to fund childcare
Press Release
Expanding the workforce pipeline: reflections on a year of our community of practice
A central part of the Global Business Coalition for Education’s Skills Friendly Cities initiative’s Bright Ideas, Bright Cities Challenge was the Community Impact Incubator program.
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