How do you build a better life for yourself?
How do you ensure your children can have a better life than you?
The GitLab Foundation is supporting people to grow their lifetime earnings through education, training, access to opportunities, and systems change on a global scale. To achieve our ambitions we have developed a strategy after a period of consultation and discussion. We expect to iterate our approach as we learn more from practical experience and exposure to other experts and advice.
Our Strategy
Investment Focus Areas
Creating opportunities for individuals through catalytic investments in job training and job placement organizations that expand institutional reach (e.g., to new populations, new geographies), reduce barriers to accessing services, and improve cost efficiency
Improving labor market efficiencies through systems-level investments that address human capital supply/demand mismatches and create platforms and tools to tackle market failures
Strengthening collective action through field-building activities that lead to greater information-sharing and co-investment among employers, decision-makers, and philanthropists
Focus Communities
We focus on individuals or families making below a living wage in their local context, with a potential focus on specific groups that are disadvantaged due to factors such as gender, disability, or social background.
Geographies
We operate in Colombia, Kenya and the United States for a number of reasons:
Relatively low or uneven economic mobility, providing significant room for results in improving and equalizing access to opportunities
Relatively strong operating environments and data collection infrastructure to support efficiency and transparency in our work
Existing networks of peer funders and partners we can work alongside, increasing opportunities for collaboration and leverage