Company Size
11 - 50 employees
Year Founded
2020
About The Families and Workers Fund
The values that guide us
We center people historically locked out of opportunity. We value and celebrate differences.
We ensure flexibility and adaptability while working toward ambitious goals. We act quickly to leverage unique resources to fuel progress.
We nurture compassion, trust, and mutual respect. We seek out and provide data and evidence to ensure work is informed by best practices.
We take a big-tent approach, and that means believing every stakeholder – whether funder, grantee or partner – brings something unique to the table. It is going to take all of us working together to win.
Essential Leaders Council
We collaborate with those at the forefront of recovery
When it comes to challenges, the true experts are people who lead through them every day. For our work to be effective, it must be grounded in the realities that diverse groups of workers and families experience daily. Too often, many workers and families face difficulties with workplace indignities, insufficient social safety net benefits, lack of family-sustaining pay, and other economic hardships.
Our Essential Leaders Council (ELC) is a group of workers and leaders who are committed to sharing the distinctive vision and expertise of frontline workers and their families to achieve more dignified conditions in the workplace and social safety net. Within Families and Workers Fund, Essential Leaders Council members provide strategic guidance on priorities and weigh in on grant prospects.
We also uplift Essential Leaders Council members’ voices through communications and events to amplify their important perspective and impact externally. To date, their guidance has influenced millions of dollars in our grantmaking and key strategy decisions. The Essential Leaders Council is stewarded by Tyonka Perkins Rimawi, Program Director at the Families and Workers Fund.
