AI for Career Development Coalition
Support readiness and capacity
Build shared standards and guardrails
Elevate evidence and practice
AI is transforming work faster than career education can adapt.
The AI for Career Development Coalition (AICD) unites leaders across education, workforce development, philanthropy, and industry to harness AI’s potential as a driver of economic opportunity and ensure that it doesn’t reinforce existing barriers.
Support readiness and capacity
Build shared standards and guardrails
Elevate evidence and practice
AI is transforming work faster than career education can adapt.
The AI for Career Development Coalition (AICD) unites leaders across education, workforce development, philanthropy, and industry to harness AI’s potential as a driver of economic opportunity and ensure that it doesn’t reinforce existing barriers.
Our Mission
Ensure every individual has access to high-quality career guidance and navigation support. AI can help fulfill this mission, but only if we design responsibly and work together.
Formed in 2025, the coalition exists to help education and workforce organizations move from isolated experimentation to coordinated action on the use of AI for career development. Together, we are developing shared standards, ethics, and measures of impact.
Our 2026 Priorities
In 2026, the Coalition will focus on turning shared vision into coordinated action through three core priorities:
Build shared standards and guardrails
Convene members to co-develop frameworks for trust, transparency, and impact measurement that can be adopted across institutions and programs seeking to integrate AI into their career education and navigation programs.
Support readiness and capacity
Create resources, training opportunities, and playbooks for practitioners and institutions so they can adopt AI responsibly and effectively.
Elevate evidence and practice
Gather and share case studies, pilots, and research-practice partnerships that demonstrate what works and reduce guesswork for funders, policymakers, and practitioners alike.
Steering Committee:
Coalition Members
More than 83 organizations across education, workforce, research, and philanthropy have joined this effort, including:
aiEDU
Amalga Partner
America Succeeds
Annie E. Casey Foundation
Association for Career and Technical Education (ACTE)
Atlassian Foundation
Basta
Bellwether
Beyond 12
Big Brothers Big Sisters of New York City
Big Thought
Blackstone
Boys & Girls Clubs of America
Britebound
Burning Glass Institute
Council for Adult and Experiential Learning (CAEL)
Center on Rural Innovation
Center for Civic Futures
Chaffey College
Charrette LLC
Chicagoland Workforce Funder Alliance
Clayton Christensen Institute
Common Ground Consulting
Cricket Media
Digital Promise Global
Discovery Partners Institute (part of the University of Illinois system)
Education Design Lab
Education Leaders of Color (EdLoC)
Educators Cooperative
Enterprise for Youth
ExcelinEd
FirstGen Forward
Frederick A. DeLuca Foundation
Generation: You Employed
GitLab Foundation
Goodwill Industries International
Google.org
Guild
Hats & Ladders
Hispanic American Community Education and Services (HACES)
Humanist Venture Studios
IBM (IBM SkillsBuild)
IGNITE Fund
iMentor
Inland Empire Desert Regional Consortium
International Youth Foundation (IYF)
Jobs for the Future
Junior Achievement USA
Kapi`olani Community College
Kuder
MassHire Berkshire County Workforce Board
MENTOR California
MentorPRO
Merit America
NAF
National College Attainment Network (NCAN)
National Association of Workforce Boards (NAWB)
OpenAI
Opportunity AI
Pennsylvania State University
Protopia
PwC
REACH Pathways
Riipen
San Francisco Unified School District
Schultz Family Foundation
ServiceNow
SkillUp Coalition
Southwestern College
Strada Education Foundation
Tabiya
Teach For America
Texarkana College
The Governor's Prevention Partnership
The OpportuniAty Trust
The Wily Network
Udemy
WhereWeGo
W.K. Kellogg Foundation
Year Up United
YouthWell
Zendesk
Read the Pulse Report
Our inaugural report, “How Do We Know Whether These Tools Are Good?”, captures what education and workforce stakeholders say about trust, access, and the future of AI in career development.
The pulse report was designed to get coalition members on the same page, surfacing common concerns, shared priorities, and opportunities for collaboration that now inform the coalition’s 2026 agenda.
Read The Pulse Report
Key Themes
- Expanding quality access must be the shared priority
- Human guidance and support remain central and irreplaceable
- Trust in AI starts with trustworthy data and design
- Shared measures of impact are urgently needed to assess what works
- Sustainability matters: tools must be affordable and enduring
- Adoption remains uneven; practitioners need support to build readiness
Read The Pulse Report
Key Themes
- Expanding quality access must be the shared priority
- Human guidance and support remain central and irreplaceable
- Trust in AI starts with trustworthy data and design
- Shared measures of impact are urgently needed to assess what works
- Sustainability matters: tools must be affordable and enduring
- Adoption remains uneven; practitioners need support to build readiness
Read The Pulse Report
Join the Coalition
Join the coalition as we shape shared standards, expand readiness, and define what responsible AI looks like in career development.
Members are invited to participate in virtual convenings, share insights from the field, and collaborate on the development of best practices for the responsible use of AI in career readiness.
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