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You Have the Power to Transform Workplaces
At SHRM Foundation, we believe HR professionals are essential to driving workplace change, fostering inclusion, and ensuring all talent thrives. Support us in creating a world of work that works for all.

You Have the Power to Transform Workplaces
At SHRM Foundation, we believe HR professionals are essential to driving workplace change, fostering inclusion, and ensuring all talent thrives. Support us in creating a world of work that works for all.
Keeping HR Ahead of the Curve
SHRM sits at the center of talent and workplace development strategies, supporting HR professionals, employers and employees alike — and the SHRM Foundation drives action to improve the future of the workplace. Explore how the SHRM Foundation drove positive change across the world of work in 2023, keeping HR ahead of the curve.
The 2024 Impact Report is coming in early Q2 2025.
Our Focus
To expand access to work and help workers and workplaces thrive, SHRM Foundation focuses on three interconnected pools of work.

Supporting, celebrating, and diversifying the HR leaders of today and tomorrow.
Preparing and supporting HR leaders to address the challenges coming their way.
By the Numbers
3 out of 4
HR professionals report work from employees hired from untapped talent pools perform the same or better than other employees.
Source: SHRM Foundation (2021), Beneath the Surface: A Unified Approach To Realizing The Value Of Untapped Talent
2.1 million
HR professionals driving change in the U.S.—a number expected to go up by twice the national average growth rate for all other occupations between now and 2032.
Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics.
76%
of people believe companies should be doing more to support the mental health of their workforce.
Source: Dan Schawbel, in partnership with Oracle (2020), Workplace Intelligence
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Upcoming Opportunities
The SHRM Foundation supports and celebrates HR professionals by providing over $600,000 in scholarships and grants annually, and recognizing leaders through prestigious awards programs.