{"id":213789,"date":"2026-05-14T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/14\/sp-global-and-the-sp-global-foundation-announce-next-phase-in-10-million-stepforward-initiative\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T09:05:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T13:05:15","slug":"sp-global-and-the-sp-global-foundation-announce-next-phase-in-10-million-stepforward-initiative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/14\/sp-global-and-the-sp-global-foundation-announce-next-phase-in-10-million-stepforward-initiative\/","title":{"rendered":"S&#038;P Global and the S&#038;P Global Foundation Announce Next Phase In $10 Million StepForward Initiative"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.prnewswire.com\/news-releases\/sp-global-and-the-sp-global-foundation-announce-next-phase-in-10-million-stepforward-initiative-302772251.html\">S&#038;P Global and the S&#038;P Global Foundation Announce Next Phase In $10 Million StepForward Initiative<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.prnewswire.com\/news-releases\/sp-global-and-the-sp-global-foundation-announce-next-phase-in-10-million-stepforward-initiative-302772251.html\">https:\/\/www.prnewswire.com\/news-releases\/sp-global-and-the-sp-global-foundation-announce-next-phase-in-10-million-stepforward-initiative-302772251.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-14 08:00:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.prnewswire.com\">www.prnewswire.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>StepForward Initiative Launch<\/strong>: S&amp;P Global and the S&amp;P Global Foundation announce a $10 million, three-year initiative called StepForward, aimed at equipping the next generation with AI skills for success.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Global Collaboration<\/strong>: StepForward involves global and regional collaborators, including MIT RAISE and the UN Youth Office, providing AI education and workforce readiness programs.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Funding and Partnerships<\/strong>: Grants from the S&amp;P Global Foundation support various organizations, with a combined effort led by eight strategic collaborators focusing on human-centric skills and AI.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Volunteer Expertise<\/strong>: The initiative utilizes skills-based volunteering from S&amp;P Global employees to channel expertise to organizations involved in the StepForward program.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Skills and Awareness Campaign<\/strong>: The initiative aims to drive awareness and access to future-ready skills by working with global entities to spotlight needed competencies for evolving labor markets.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>S&#038;P Global and the S&#038;P Global Foundation Announce Next Phase In $10 Million StepForward Initiative&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":213790,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/mma.prnewswire.com\/media\/2842604\/SP_Global_Logo.jpg?p=facebook","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-213789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213789"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213789"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213789\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":213791,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213789\/revisions\/213791"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/213790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}