Path Forward

When I woke up this morning, I wondered which non-profit that I should highlight today on #GivingTuesday . After reading Sallie Krawcheck’s article in Fortune titled A Letter to My Daughter, Post-Trump , I immediately decided the organization of the day is Path Forward . Fundraising Websites – Crowdrise Path Forward began as a program at Return Path, a data-solutions company with more than 500 employees in 12 offices around the globe. The company’s CTO, Andy Sautins, came up with the idea of an internship program aimed at women who were interested in returning to work after a career break. The program began in 2014 with just one participant. Under the leadership and guidance of Cathy Hawley, VP of People, the company brought in six women in January 2015, four of whom were hired. The program expanded later that year to include a larger cohort at Return Path and also to bring in partners who also wanted to create return to work programs. The first partners were PayPal, SendGrid, ReadyTalk, Moz, and MWH. Along with Return Path, these companies assembled a cohort of nearly 40 women and men. From this, the idea to create a nonprofit focused on bringing return to work programs to even more companies was born. ...

Tami Forman, the Executive Director of Path Forward (a new non-profit that I recently joined the board of ) just did a powerful five minute presentation on making space for moms in the workforce. I knew that Tami was a great speaker because of my interactions with her at Return Path, but she just totally blew me away with this talk. Making Space For Moms | Tami Forman | DisruptHR Talks from DisruptHR on Vimeo . ...

Last week, I joined the board of a new non-profit called Path Forward which has a mission to get people back to work after they’ve taken time off for caregiving. Specifically, Path Forward works with companies to create mid-career internship that are an on ramp back to the paid workforce. Andy Sautins (at the time Return Path’s CTO) and Matt Blumberg (Return Path’s CEO) came up with the idea two years ago . After running two cycles at Return Path , they expanded it to other companies including ReadyTalk, SendGrid, MWH Global, SpotX, and Moz . ...