UPWARDLY GLOBAL

Upwardly Global has set an ambitious goal to serve 25,000 immigrant, refugee and asylee professionals annually in 2025. To achieve this, Upwardly Global is focused on dismantling employment barriers for work-authorized immigrants, refugees, and asylees with professional experience and international degrees by helping them secure thriving-wage jobs and promoting their inclusion in the U.S. workforce. Upwardly Global unleashes the potential of immigrants to secure skill-aligned careers by supporting them and the organizations that serve them with industry-specific coaching and digital training, engages employers in inclusive hiring practices and opening opportunities, and advances policies and narratives that create prosperity for all.

Upwardly Global has defined our theory of action based on three interconnected components:
Extending our Reach
Driving Ecosystem Impact, and
Building our Foundational Excellence

Extending Our Reach. Upwardly Global is developing and enhancing our program offerings to serve 13,000 immigrant and Refugee professionals in 2024 and 25,000 jobseekers in 2025 We will achieve scale by working with delivery partners to reach 1,000s of jobseekers by effectively institutionalizing our coaching model into pilot Community College, Refugee, and Workforce ecosystems partners. In order to achieve this, we will improve content generation by building integrated products and services from an equity lens ​and improve the delivery and quality of our offerings across audiences (e.g. jobseekers, coaches, employers) by effectively leveraging and investing in technology​

Driving Ecosystem Impact. Upwardly Global will work with key stakeholders to create an environment where our jobseekers can thrive by reaching 12 M people in 2024. To achieve this we will deepen our work in coalitions and engagement of key stakeholders to create an enabling environment for immigrant workforce inclusion, build our thought leadership practice to drive narrative change around the value of shared prosperity our community brings and their contribution to the US economy and local communities, and utilize communication channels to increase our reach and engagement across stakeholder groups. In addition we will support DEIB and practice change efforts of employers and other partners to create equitable opportunities and outcomes for our community of jobseekers​.

Building Our Foundational Excellence. We have set ambitious goals to achieve them. We will work to ensure the integrity and sustainability of our organization​. Focusing on the ensuring we have the IT infrastructure, financial and human resources and social capital to support our growth and sustainability​, strengthen our learning culture and accountability to results-based programming by installing a robust measurement and evaluation capacity​ and invest in the team and build their sense of belongingness through realization of increased retention of staff (85%)​.

For more than 20 years, Upwardly Global has worked to dismantle employment barriers for immigrants, refugees, and asylees while advancing the inclusion of their skills into the U.S. economy. Upwardly Global unleashes the potential of immigrants to secure skill-aligned careers by supporting them and the organizations that serve them with industry-specific coaching and digital training, engages employers in inclusive hiring practices and opening opportunities, and advances policies and narratives that create prosperity for all.

For job seekers, Upwardly Global provides access to resources like industry-specific career coaching, reskilling and upskilling courses, career navigation assistance, and networking events, which help them fully utilize their education and skills so they can restart their careers in the U.S.

For immigrant-serving organizations such as workforce agencies, community colleges, and refugee resettlement agencies, Upwardly Global provides the technology and know-how needed to build an inclusive workforce. We partner and share our proven digital learning tools, coaching curriculum, and employer network.

For employers, Upwardly promotes inclusive hiring practices by sharing diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) best practices and training, providing access to skilled immigrant talent through a unique AI-powered online platform, and offering impactful corporate volunteer engagement opportunities.

For policymakers and advocacy groups, Upwardly Global enables large-scale systems change by uplifting job-seeker narratives, provides expert consultation to federal and state policymakers and, in coalitions, advocates for policy priorities that promote the inclusion of newcomers in the U.S. workforce.

Since our founding, we have connected job seekers to the workforce,

9,000+ Hired Into Professional Jobs
50%+ of placements are in high-demand STEM fields: IT, Engineers, Physicians, and Healthcare, followed by Business, Logistics and Operations
Average Income Placement: $67,000