<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/"><channel><title>Path Forward on Feld Thoughts</title><link>https://feld.com/tags/path-forward/</link><description>Recent content in Path Forward on Feld Thoughts</description><image><title>Feld Thoughts</title><url>https://feld.com/og-default.png</url><link>https://feld.com/og-default.png</link></image><generator>Hugo -- 0.163.0</generator><language>en-us</language><lastBuildDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2016 13:06:07 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://feld.com/tags/path-forward/index.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title>#GivingTuesday: Donate to Path Forward</title><link>https://feld.com/archives/2016/11/givingtuesday-donate-path-forward/</link><pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2016 13:06:07 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://feld.com/archives/2016/11/givingtuesday-donate-path-forward/</guid><description>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</description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="600" align="center" style="max-width:600px;width:100%;margin:0 auto;"><tr><td><div style="text-align:center;margin-bottom:24px;"><a href="https://feld.com" style="display:inline-block;"><img src="https://feld.com/images/email-header.png" alt="Feld Thoughts" width="600" style="max-width:100%;display:block;border:0;" /></a></div><p>When I woke up this morning, I wondered which non-profit that I should highlight today on <a href="https://www.givingtuesday.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">#GivingTuesday</a>.</p>
<p>After reading Sallie Krawcheck’s article in Fortune titled <em><a href="https://fortune.com/2016/11/29/sallie-krawcheck-trump-daughter/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">A Letter to My Daughter, Post-Trump</a></em>, I immediately decided the organization of the day is <a href="https://www.pathforward.org/donate/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Path Forward</a>.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.crowdrise.com" title="Fundraising Websites on Crowdrise" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Fundraising Websites – Crowdrise</a></p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>If you want to support an organization that supports women (and men) who want to return to the workplace after an extended absence for any reason (health, children, aging parents, or caregiving of any nature), <a href="https://www.crowdrise.com/donate/project/pathforward2016/path-forward/?widget=true" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">consider making a #GivingTuesday gift to Path Forward</a>.</p>
</td></tr></table>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Making Space for Moms</title><link>https://feld.com/archives/2016/04/making-space-moms-workforce/</link><pubDate>Fri, 22 Apr 2016 09:00:49 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://feld.com/archives/2016/04/making-space-moms-workforce/</guid><description>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.</description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="600" align="center" style="max-width:600px;width:100%;margin:0 auto;"><tr><td><div style="text-align:center;margin-bottom:24px;"><a href="https://feld.com" style="display:inline-block;"><img src="https://feld.com/images/email-header.png" alt="Feld Thoughts" width="600" style="max-width:100%;display:block;border:0;" /></a></div><p>Tami Forman, the Executive Director of <a href="https://www.pathforward.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Path Forward</a> (a new non-profit that <a href="https://feld.com/archives/2016/03/path-forward.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">I recently joined the board of</a>) 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.</p>
<p><a href="https://vimeo.com/163430596" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Making Space For Moms | Tami Forman | DisruptHR Talks</a> from <a href="https://vimeo.com/disrupthr" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">DisruptHR</a> on <a href="https://vimeo.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Vimeo</a>.</p>
<p>My favorite one liner in the talk is “In the S&amp;P 1500, there are more CEO’s named John than women CEOs.” This is definitely worth five minutes of your life to watch right now.</p>
</td></tr></table>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Path Forward</title><link>https://feld.com/archives/2016/03/path-forward/</link><pubDate>Mon, 28 Mar 2016 05:00:32 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://feld.com/archives/2016/03/path-forward/</guid><description>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,</description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="600" align="center" style="max-width:600px;width:100%;margin:0 auto;"><tr><td><div style="text-align:center;margin-bottom:24px;"><a href="https://feld.com" style="display:inline-block;"><img src="https://feld.com/images/email-header.png" alt="Feld Thoughts" width="600" style="max-width:100%;display:block;border:0;" /></a></div><p>Last week, I joined the board of a new non-profit called <a href="https://www.pathforward.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Path Forward</a> 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.</p>
<p>Andy Sautins (at the time Return Path’s CTO) and Matt Blumberg (Return Path’s CEO) <a href="https://www.onlyonceblog.com/2015/01/returnship-program" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">came up with the idea two years ago</a>. After running two cycles at <a href="https://returnpath.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Return Path</a>, they expanded it to other companies including <a href="https://www.onlyonceblog.com/2015/08/returnship-program-part-iii" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">ReadyTalk, SendGrid, MWH Global, SpotX, and Moz</a>.</p>
<p>It’s now an independent non-profit organization that was launched last week with posts from <a href="https://avc.com/2016/03/path-forward/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Fred Wilson</a> (who is on the board of Return Path with me), <a href="https://gothamgal.com/2016/03/path-forward/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Joanne Wilson</a> (who is the board co-chair of Path Forward), <a href="https://www.onlyonceblog.com/2016/03/a-new-path-forward" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Matt Blumberg</a> (CEO of Return Path and board co-chair of Path Forward), and <a href="https://www.pathforward.org/welcome/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Tami Forman</a> (Executive Director of Path Forward). And, as a bonus, Fortune had a long article explaining things in <em><a href="https://fortune.com/2016/03/22/path-forward-returnship/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">This Nonprofit Wants To Put Stay-At-Home Moms Back to Work</a>.</em></p>
<p>I’m very selective about the non-profits I’m on the board of. While I’m involved in a number of them and Amy and I support many others, I’ve limited myself to three non-profit boards at a time. I’ve been chair of <a href="https://www.ncwit.org" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">NCWIT</a> for many years and co-chair of Startup Colorado since inception. Until last year, I was on the UP Global board, but left the board when <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2015/06/16/techstars-buys-up-global-the-non-profit-behind-startup-weekend/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">UP Global was acquired by Techstars</a>. So, I had an open non-profit board position and immediately said yes when asked by Matt given the mission of Path Forward.</p>
<p>If you have a company in New York, California, or Colorado (they are starting in these three states) that would like to start doing returnships, go to Path Forward and <a href="https://www.pathforward.org/partner/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">fill out this form</a>. If you are ready to restart your career after taking time off, go to Path Forward and <a href="https://www.pathforward.org/partipants/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">complete this form</a>.</p>
<p>Finally, Amy and I are making a substantial financial contribution and would encourage any reader who (a) supports the mission and (b) wants to give back in some way to <a href="https://www.crowdrise.com/pathforward2016" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">go to Crowdrise, hit the donate button, and help support our launch</a>.</p>
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