There are a number of ways you can implement measures that will increase opportunity, equity, and economic mobility for all of your employees.

Map the jobs in your organization to the Prosper CO jobs model to ensure you’re positioning employees to move into pathway and opportunity jobs.
Take steps to increase the diversity of your job applicant pool.
Show your commitment to fair chance hiring.
Set goals and implement a diversity scorecard to track your progress.
Engage in best practices to recruit and retain diverse employees.
Ensure you offer the most critical benefits that help employees prosper.
Provide training opportunities and career tracks to ensure lower-paid employees have the opportunities and support needed for advancement.

Diversify your supply chain by inviting women and minority owned companies to bid on work with your company.

Advocate for changes in housing zoning to lower costs of housing for your workforce.
Let us know about land that your company owns that could be used for housing.
Set goals and implement a diversity scorecard to track your progress.
Advocate for measures to increase post-secondary educational attainment and decrease financial burden for students by maximizing federal assistance, scholarships, concurrent enrollment, flexibility and lower-cost options.
Remove unnecessary degree requirements and establish skill and competency-based requirements for jobs.
Provide every employee earning less than $45,000/year with an annual meeting with HR to explore career options and maximize education benefits.
Develop incentives to support other employers who are training and upskilling workforce.
Change your benefits structure based on the needs of lower-paid workers – transportation, childcare, training and/or tuition reimbursement.
Establish mentorship programs and coaching relationships with small businesses.
Develop targeted networking opportunities with entrepreneurs.
Build relationships and provide exposure to start-up and small business networks.
Accept interns and support their current and future learning.
Participate to learn how to partner with philanthropy and other lenders to increase funding for small businesses and housing projects.