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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation National Initiative

http://www.sloan.org/

Kathleen Christensen, Director
Workplace, Workforce and Working Families

The goal of the Workplace, Workforce and Working Families program is to enhance scholarly, business and public understanding of the interaction of family and workplace. Efforts include ways in which the workplace can be restructured to provide more choice in work hours to meet the needs of an increasingly diverse workforce, particularly working parents and older workers.

Over the last ten years, the Program has supported over $60 million in research on issues faced by today's working families. The Program is now launching the second phase of its effort, with the primary intent of making flexible workplaces a reality for the American worker. The Foundation, its grantees and partners are working at the national, state and local levels and with business and government, labor and interested advocacy groups to advance workplace flexibility.

Workplace Flexibility 2010 is part of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation's National Initiative on Workplace Flexibility.

Partners in the Initiative include:

The Sloan Work and Family Research Network

http://www.bc.edu/wfnetwork

Marcie Pitt-Catsouphes, Principal Investigator
Judi Casey, Project Director

The Sloan Work and Family Research Network provides resources to academics who conduct work-family studies and who teach their students about work-family issues. The Network also provides evidence-based information about the needs and priorities of working families to state policy makers and business managers.

The Network's Policy Initiative is comprised of three primary components:

  • Information and statistics about the lives of working families.
  • Policy briefs and talking points focused on specific issues, such as flexible work arrangements, afterschool care, commuting time, or work hours.
  • The tracking of legislation introduced in different states across the country.

The Sloan Work and Family Policy Network is funded by the Workplace, Workforce and Working Families program of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and by Boston College.

• Current issue of Network News newsletter.

• Past issues of Network News newsletter.

• Sloan Work and Family Policy Network

 

Families and Work Institute

http://www.familiesandwork.org/

Ellen Galinsky, President

The Families and Work Institute (FWI) is a nonprofit research center providing data to inform decision-making on the changing workforce, family and community. FWI conducts the largest, most comprehensive study of the U.S. workforce addressing issues of life on and off the job. The National Study of the Changing Workforce has surveyed representative samples of the nation's workforce in 1992, 1997, and 2002.

In 2004, FWI launched When Work Works, a nationwide initiative highlighting the importance of workplace flexibility as a strategy to enhance businesses' competitive advantage in the global economy and yield positive business results. When Work Works is funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. FWI works in partnership with the Center for Workforce Preparation and the Center for Emerging Futures on this project.

As part of When Work Works, FWI has launched the Sloan Awards for Business Excellence in Workplace Flexibility in eight communities. These awards recognize and honor companies successfully using flexibility to meet both business and employee goals. Announced nationally, these awards will be implemented locally in eight communities: Brooklyn, NY; Providence, RI; Durham, NC; Chicago, IL, Detroit, MI; Dallas, TX; Long Beach, CA; and Salt Lake City, UT.

The Sloan Awards for Business Excellence in Workplace Flexibility are developed in collaboration with the Alliance for Work-Life Programs,  Corporate Voices for Working Families, the Boston College Center for Work & Family and The Conference Board's Work-Life Leadership Council. In addition to creating numerous research reports, FWI is also conducting a nationally representative study, the National Study of Employers to assess workplace programs and practices that address the needs of the changing workplace and workforce.