Sign Up to Participate in the Improved Hiring, Retention, & Employee Advancement Practices Effort

What Is My Company Committing To Do?

Your company commits to being part of a community-wide effort to work alongside other employers, community navigators and service providers, and community members to expand your labor pool and ensure community members to have more equitable access to jobs by:

Improving your hiring, retention, and employee advancement practices to be more equitable and give you access to a larger pool of potential employees
Connecting your employees with community support services that help them stay employed
Connecting your employees with navigators to support them to gain skills need to advance

As part of this community-wide effort, you will:

Gain an initial understanding of the composition of your workforce, and what hiring, retention, and employee advancement currently looks like in your company
Set targets for improving your hiring, retention, and employee advancement practices
Gather, share, and use data, and input and feedback from your employees, to inform your improvement efforts, and to track progress and impact
Receive ongoing coaching, training, and technical assistance, including an expert-informed toolkit, to support you in your work
Participate in peer-to-peer learning opportunities with other employers

What Is the Time Commitment?

The amount of time you invest is as much time as you are willing and able to dedicate to improving your hiring, retention, and employee advancement practices. You have the opportunity to opt into coaching, training, technical assistance, and peer-to-peer learning opportunities ongoing. The only other commitment is to submit an initial benchmark survey about your company’s current practices, and ongoing progress updates to the RMP team on a quarterly to biannual basis.

How do I know if My Company Is Ready to Participate?

Your company is ready to participate if:

You are an official partner within the Rocky Mountain Partnership or aligned to RMP’s vision and mission
You currently employ community members in RMP’s geographic scope OR are willing to employ community members in the RMP region
You are willing to improve your company’s practices to expand your labor pool and ensure community members to have more equitable access to jobs
Your company’s C-Suite leadership is bought in and in support of participation in this effort
You have permission to share data that will help RMP monitor community-wide progress and impact
You have permission for RMP to recognize your company’s engagement in these efforts via name and logo - this includes website landing page, email blasts, social media, press releases, etc.

To learn more, check out the Frequently Asked Questions for this effort HERE.

To confirm your interest and join the movement, fill out the form below:

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* 1. What is your name?

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* 2. What organization do you work for?

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* 3. What is your email address?

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* 4. How did you hear about this work?

Someone involved in the Partnership told me about it directly

I received an email about this from the Partnership

I saw information about this work on the Partnership website

Other (please specify)

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* 5. If you are not a C-Suite level representative of your organization, has your leadership supported you to be the liaison and take the lead in taking this pledge and doing this collective work?

Yes

N/A; I am a C-Suite level representative

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* 6. Is the leadership of your organization actively bought in and engaged with the collective work of Rocky Mountain Partnership and a member of the Partnership Accountability Network?

Yes

No (if so, a Backbone Team member will be in touch to share engagement opportunities with you!)

I'm Not Sure (if so, a Backbone Team member will be in touch to clarify)

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* 7. If you answered 'yes,' please list the other members of your organization engaged in the overall work of the Rocky Mountain Partnership.

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* 8. Does your organization commit to improving your internal hiring and retention practices?

Yes

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* 9. Does your organization commit to using the toolkit provided and/or other available research and best practices in order to improve your internal hiring and retention practices?

Yes

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* 10. Does your organization commit to providing key data—as available—regarding the demographic makeup of your staff, current job posting and hiring processes, and retention practices?

(This allows the Partnership to establish a baseline and measure how the region is implementing these practices as well as the impact employers are seeing as a result with the support of the Backbone Team.)

Yes

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* 11. By signing on to the pledge, your organization's logo will appear on RMP's landing page for these efforts, in future email blasts about this work, on social media, and in a press release that will be sent to key media contacts to indicate which organizations are involved in this effort. Do you commit to providing your logo for these purposes?

Yes

No - I would like to opt out

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* 12. Please provide a high-resolution logo for your organization.

PDF, PNG, JPG, JPEG file types only.

Choose File

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* 13. If you are not the best person for RMP to send the Equitable Hiring Toolkit to, please provide the name, role, and contact information for the appropriate person at your organization.

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Role

Organization

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* 14. Do you have outstanding questions regarding this collective work and pledge? If so, Senior Director of Policy & Advocacy Kayah Swanson will reach out.

Yes

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* 15. Please indicate your preference for a location for your orientation session:

In-Person

Virtual

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* 16. Please indicate whether you'd like to have an individual onboarding session just with your team, or if you'd like to join the other employers in this effort

Individual Orientation

Group Orientation