Workforce Training & Digital Skilling

Technological advancements are changing the workforce requirements of our economy.  According to the National Skills Coalition and the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, over 92 percent of all jobs require digital skills, but approximately one-third of workers don’t have the foundational digital skills necessary to qualify for these jobs.

Latinos make up 18% of the overall U.S. labor market and will account for one out of every two new workers entering the workforce by 2025. Latinos also make up 35% of workers with no digital skills. Without digital skills, Latinos will be overrepresented in the groups that are excluded from access to the digital economy. Hispanic Federation, along with our workforce and digital equity community partners, is working to address the digital divide and providing training and career opportunities for Latinos across the United States.

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Workforce Training and Digital Skilling

Working with our community partners, Hispanic Federation offers a variety of programs that support community members of all backgrounds with workforce training and digital skilling. Explore our community workforce training and digital skilling programs below. If you’re a community member interested in learning more about these programs, contact us at workforce@hispanicfederation.org.

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Latino Digital Equity Centers

To address the Latino digital skills gap, HF partnered with Comcast NBC Universal Telemundo to invest in 20 tech centers equipped with customized digital curriculum to help develop digital skills in communities throughout the country. This program is offered to all community members.

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Latina Women and Youth Economic Empowerment Initiative

The Latina Women and Youth Economic Empowerment Initiative is a collaborative effort between Ulta Beauty and HF in selected locations across the U.S. This program aims to empower Latina women and youth through digital skills training and certification, enhancing their educational and workplace opportunities.

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Kroger Digital Workforce Initiative

HF and Kroger partnered to invest in four digital workforce centers housed by Latino-led and serving nonprofits in Kroger’s service footprint, based in San Diego, CA Phoenix, AZ, Atlanta, GA, and Houston, TX. The Digital Workforce Centers use a customized digital workforce curriculum suitable for students and jobseekers with beginner, intermediate, and advanced skill sets and responsive to the needs of local employers. Each Digital Equity Center provides Wi-Fi access to program participants and center visitors throughout the year.

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SNIPES Crack the Code

In partnership with SNIPES, HF works with two Latino nonprofits located in Cicero, IL and Philadelphia, PA to offer digital skills training to Latino students, adult learners, and jobseekers in the area. Our goal is to increase educational and workplace opportunities as well as improve economic mobility.

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Digital Education Program

Since 2017, Hispanic Federation has partnered with Charter Communication’s Spectrum Digital Education program to build computer labs in different cities throughout the United States. The computer labs have been built in low-income communities to provide job training for those that are interested in learning how to navigate the digital era. Computer labs are in the following locations:

  • New York, NY
  • Milwaukee, WI
  • Fort Worth, TX
  • Orlando, FL
  • Durham, NC
  • Charlotte, NC
  • Wallace, NC
  • Syracuse, NY
  • Wimauma, FL

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Hispanic Federation’s Latino Digital Accelerator

Hispanic Federation and Google.org collaborated to create the Latino Digital Accelerator combining HF’s mission of strengthening Latino nonprofits that offer digital skilling and workforce development as well as Google.org’s deep commitment to closing the digital divide. As part of this initiative, we offer a variety of programs for nonprofits serving the community. If you’re part of a nonprofit and interested in learning more, contact workforce@hispanicfederation.org.

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Latino Digital Accelerator

The Latino Digital Accelerator program is designed to strengthen the organizational capacity, programmatic offerings, and reach of Latino-focused nonprofit organizations involved in digital workforce development.

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Digital Careers Centers

Digital Career Centers offer support to a network of 24 technology centers housed in Latino-led and -serving nonprofits to develop and strengthen their digital skills curriculum.

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Latino Digital Center of Excellence

The Latino Digital Center of Excellence is HF’s centralized hub of information that can help nonprofits build their capacity and share resources – including research, curriculum development, and other learnings – that can strengthen their digital skilling programs.

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SNIPES Crack the Code

In partnership with SNIPES, HF works with two Latino nonprofits located in Cicero, IL and Philadelphia, PA to offer digital skills training to Latino students, adult learners, and jobseekers in the area. Our goal is to increase educational and workplace opportunities as well as improve economic mobility.

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Research

Read HF’s report–Closing the Latino Digital Divide: Lessons Learned from Community-Based Approaches to Latino Digital Skilling–which highlights the impact of our Digital Accelerator training program since its launch in 2019.

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Contact Us

For more information about our Economic Empowerment work, contact us below.

Peter Michelen

Workforce Initiatives Programs Director

workforce@hispanicfederation.org

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