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How Person-Centered Practices Can Advance Financial Security

Person-centered practices stem from a simple point: By directly engaging people with lived experiences of financial insecurity, we can create more effective systems and shared prosperity. Watch this discussion, recorded live on December 5, 2024, to learn how non-governmental and philanthropic organizations are implementing and scaling person-centered practices across the financial security field.

Through a set of panel discussions, cross-sector leaders, including members of FSP’s Community Advisory Group, share the latest learnings, innovative practices, and models for adopting person-centered approaches. Together, we ask the critical question: How can we make person-centered practices the default in financial security initiatives?

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How Person-Centered Practices Can Advance Financial Security

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Workers are closest to many of the problems and potential solutions most critical to an enterprise’s performance, holding essential knowledge about safety, productivity, and culture. Employers who fail to sufficiently listen or value their workers’ voices miss opportunities to innovate and improve productivity — and may suffer from workers’ decreased job satisfaction, productivity, and retention. We know workers want a seat at the table on issues from pay and benefits to safety, culture, and accountability, not only because they say so in surveys, but, increasingly, because they’re organizing to win it. Companies that genuinely seek to leverage workers’ insights often deploy tactics like surveys and town hall meetings that fall short of capturing representative input or turning feedback into action. But democratic mechanisms like shared ownership, board level co-determination, and labor-management partnerships can unlock benefits by enabling a truly collaborative, participatory work environment.

In this virtual event — hosted by the Aspen Institute Economic Opportunities Program on November 20, 2024 — experts and practitioners share insights on how different democratic structures and strategies can create better workplaces and businesses. Panelists also share their own experiences and extrapolate learnings that may apply to others looking to build more vibrant, participatory work environments. Our speakers include:

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The Civil Society Fellowship has the mission of building civil discourse across difference. On October 29 2024, nearly 150 Fellows and leaders gathered across the Aspen Institute community in Washington, DC and online for a Town Hall to model what meaningful, civil dialogue across difference can look like. Leaders left of center and right of center from all walks of life and across the country engaged in an exchange of perspectives and ideas around the greatest challenges facing the United States at this critical moment, a week before the US presidential election.

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Chapters:
0:00 - Hopes, Dreams, and Fears – Opening Video

3:06 - Opening Remarks Nike Irvin, Civil Society Fellowship Managing Director sets the scene for the town hall.

8:01 - Introduction from, Co-Hosts: Civil Society Fellow Isaiah Oliver, President, Community Foundation for Northeast Florida – Jacksonville, FL & Civil Society Fellow Jen Sarver, Principal, Sarver Strategies – Austin, TX

10:15 - Economy and the American Dream: Civil Society Fellows Jorge Lima, Vice President of Immigration & Economic Progress, Stand Together (Washington, DC), Lillian Singh, Senior Vice President, Family Economic Opportunity, Share Our Strength (Washington DC), Caleb Cage, Founder, Arc Dome Strategies, LLC. (Reno, Nevada), and Marlon Peterson, Executive Director, College & Community Fellowship (Brooklyn, NY) on the economy’s role and housing in the U.S. presidential election and what the American Dream truly means

21:03 - Heath Care - a Right or a Privilege?: Civil Society Fellows Isaiah Oliver, President, Community Foundation for Northeast Florida (Jacksonville, FL), Kody Kinsley, Secretary, North Carolina Department of Health & Human Services (Raleigh, NC), Caleb Cage, Founder, Arc Dome Strategies, LLC. (Reno, NV), Andrew Pappas, Partner, Osborn Maledon (Phoenix, AZ), Marlon Peterson, Executive Director, College & Community Fellowship (Brooklyn, NY) on. healthcare including abortion and mental health

32:29 - Immigration and the Border: Civil Society Fellows Yordanos Eyoel, Founder and CEO, Keseb (Malden, MA), Jorge Lima, Vice President of Immigration & Economic Progress, Stand Together (Washington, DC), Andrew Pappas, Partner, Osborn Maledon (Phoenix, AZ), Marlon Peterson, Executive Director, College & Community Fellowship (Brooklyn, NY) on immigration reform, demographic shifts in the US, opportunity, and border control

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