More than 20 foundations launch All In For Jobs, a $1 billion push to connect Americans to work

More than 20 foundations and philanthropies have launched All In For Jobs, an initiative that aims to mobilize $1 billion to help Americans find good jobs and stay employed as artificial intelligence and automation reshape the labor market. The Rockefeller Foundation announced the effort in New York on October 26, 2026.

Launch partners have committed more than $800 million to date, according to the announcement. Over the next five years, the coalition intends to select 250 communities where residents have lost work in recent decades or risk losing it to AI and automation, and to work with local leaders in each to help people get jobs and stay in them.

What the money is meant to fix

The partners say they will put less weight on creating new jobs and more on the everyday obstacles that stop people from filling openings that already exist. The announcement gives three examples: child care that a worker cannot pay for, transportation that does not get people to the job, and training that is not linked to the positions employers need to fill. The specific communities will be decided “in the months ahead,” and from January 2027 the partners will meet regularly to look for solutions, test them and scale them up.

In communities across the nation, there are too many people who need jobs, and too many jobs that need people.

Who is involved

The announcement names 11 supporters: the AARP Foundation, the Community Foundation of Greater Flint, Google.org, the James S. McDonnell Foundation, the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, the McKnight Foundation, NextLadder Ventures, The Rockefeller Foundation, Stand Together, the Strada Education Foundation and StriveTogether. It adds that 14 other organizations are involved but does not name them. Leaders of the Kauffman Foundation, the McKnight Foundation and the AARP Foundation are quoted alongside Rockefeller’s Kilmer.

What “mobilize $1 billion” means

The campaign’s website, allinforjobs.org, describes the first of its three goals as $1 billion in “aligned capital,” which it defines as “what funders already invest in economic mobility, coordinated through shared intelligence so the field invests differently over time.” Read together with the announcement, the headline figure is a coordination target that can include grant budgets funders already have, rather than a pledge of $1 billion in new money. Neither the announcement nor the website breaks the $800 million down by funder, and the website’s funder list is marked as still to be confirmed.

The labor market the coalition is entering

Federal figures show roughly the balance Kilmer describes. Employers had 7.1 million open jobs in August 2026, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported, and 7.1 million people were unemployed in September, when the unemployment rate was 4.2%. The two counts come from different surveys and different months, so they give a sense of scale rather than an exact match of people to jobs.

What comes next

The coalition says it is still recruiting partners from philanthropy, business and nonprofits. Its website sets out a timeline that moves from pilots and metrics in 2027 and 2028 to scaling and public reporting in 2029 and 2030, and it notes that milestones from 2027 on are projections that may change. The website says two co-funded pilots are emerging: one on state data systems, and one on how national funders can work more flexibly with local community foundations.

For nonprofits hoping to benefit, the practical point is timing. No communities have been named, and the announcement does not describe a grant application process. Organizations can register interest through the campaign’s website.