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We're one quarter into 2026. Across the country, thousands of organizations are working to solve problems most big institutions haven't been able to figure out. Progress is coming from the bottom up. Here's proof. 🧵
Stand Together
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Stand Together
@StandTogether
Stand Together is a philanthropic community driving solutions on dozens of issues, including education, health care, and bridging partisan divides.
- Replying to @StandTogether @TEKsystems and @PerScholas"There needs to be a shift from role-based hiring to skills-based hiring and from traditional ways of thinking to nontraditional ways of thinking." — John Lullen, @TEKsystems
- Replying to @StandTogether @TEKsystems and @PerScholasThe results: 85% of PerScholas learners graduate. 80% of graduates move into employment, most within 90 days. TEKsystems has hired more than 1,500 graduates through the partnership.
- Replying to @StandTogether @TEKsystems and @PerScholas@PerScholas builds training programs with the companies that will hire graduates. @TEKsystems co-designed the curriculum and committed to hiring from the pipeline. When employers stopped screening for credentials, the talent they said didn't exist started showing up.
- Replying to @StandTogether @TEKsystems and @PerScholas"One of the things that I think is the classic faulty signal is degree requirements." — Caitlyn Brazill, President, @PerScholas
- Replying to @StandTogether @TEKsystems and @PerScholasJohn Lullen, @TEKsystems: companies say they can't find talent, but the hiring systems they're using were never built to find it. "There's a war for talent, but a lot of that is predicated on the school of thought that you need a degree."
- America doesn't have a talent shortage. @TEKsystems and @PerScholas on why the hiring system is filtering out the workers it claims it can't find, with Caitlyn Brazill and John Lullen. 🧵
- Every time a new technology entered music, the industry called it a menace. @abundanceinst Senior Fellow @johnachardin says the pattern reveals less about protecting art than about protecting who controls access to it.
00:00 - Data center jobs grew 30%, but companies kept saying they couldn't find talent. @TEKsystems and @PerScholas found the real problem: talent isn't scarce, it's overlooked. Train people for 8 weeks, and suddenly the "shortage" disappears.
00:00 - Companies are competing for the same credentialed candidates while a larger, untapped talent pool sits on the other side of the degree requirement. That's the problem @TEKsystems and @PerScholas set out to fix:
00:00 - Degree requirements are a faulty hiring signal that overlook millions of capable workers. @TEKsystems and @PerScholas proved there's a better way: free, employer-led tech training that gets people job-ready in as little as 12 weeks. So far they’ve hired over 1,500 through this
00:00 - Replying to @StandTogether @kiewit and @HiltonThe most important shift isn't adding another benefit, but understanding what employees actually need. Kiewit and Hilton show what's possible when companies treat mental health as a core business strategy:
- Replying to @StandTogether and @kiewit.@Hilton took a different route. Focus groups revealed employees weren't just stressed about work. They were quietly managing eldercare for parents and neighbors. Hilton built a caregiver concierge service around that finding. 60% of users reported avoiding missed work as a
