Strengthening the Workers Lab as the go-to-place for worker-centered learnings to achieve a society where all workers are safe, healthy, and secure

Under this grant, RWJF's funding supports the Workers Lab whose purpose is to give new ideas for and with workers a chance to succeed where all workers are safe, healthy, and secure. This project will focus on activities with the healthcare sector, identified as an interest area by RWJF and gig workers and an interest of the Workers Lab and the gig-worker field. During the next two years, Foundation funding will support these deliverables: (1) conducting one or two cycles of the Workers Lab's Innovation Fund to generate a diverse pipeline of applicants for incubation, investment, and learning opportunities to surface new ideas focused specifically on how and where worker-centered innovation is transforming the healthcare system to better serve workers; (2) implementing time-bound experiments and pilots that are worker-led and worker-focused, including using the Workers Lab's Design Sprint, an effort in which a team of experts comes together to identify issues and new solutions and to gain learning and insights on any impacts on the healthcare sector and on those workers; (3) identifying and structuring a portion of a research and learning agenda, with a particular focus on the Workers Lab's Gig Research Learning Project, to address issues on the healthcare system and nonstandard workforce; and (4) hosting up to two learning roundtables or briefings with the Workers Lab's network of innovators and partners to address issues of worker health and safety.