Claude Moore Foundation Expands Workforce Development Efforts

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For more than 30 years, the Claude Moore Charitable Foundation has funded organizations that help people get to a place where they can have a job, support a family, and become financially independent, but "the need in Virginia far outweighs what we can fund as a private foundation," J.

Hamilton Lambert, the foundation's executive director, says in a press release.

Now the foundation is launching a public nonprofit, Claude Moore Opportunities, to address the state's workforce shortage and provide increased career opportunities for Virginians, the Richmond Times-Dispatch reports.

The new nonprofit will work with educational institutions, healthcare organizations, and others to fill employment gaps in critical roles.

"We have an unprecedented number of open job opportunities in healthcare throughout the commonwealth," says William Hazel, Jr., CEO of the new nonprofit.

"At the same time, workforce development efforts for these careers are disparate and decentralized."

The Claude Moore Charitable Foundation has invested more than $24 million in workforce programs to provide entry points and advancement in healthcare careers, but "our efforts at the foundation have been incredibly successful, but we are not able to fund in all the areas that need support," Lambert says.

"Claude Moore Opportunities allows us to raise money so that we can do more to build healthy communities, local

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