Hiring and integrating returning citizens, and investing in companies that do so, means navigating complex cultural and legal issues. Since 2013, WKKF has made more than $150 million in grants and investments that support formerly incarcerated individuals, including workforce development and upskill training programs. In 2018, WKKF partnered with Slack and FREEAMERICA to create Next Chapter, a program designed for formerly incarcerated people to get trained and placed in skilled, longer-term employment in the tech sector.
During this ROI in the South session, three experts joined the conversation to discuss how businesses and investors successfully implement this lens. They were Kenyatta Leal, executive director of Next Chapter; Andre Peart, founder and CEO of Untapped Solutions; and Deepti Rohatgi, executive director of Slack for Good. They shared the following insights:
