What’s happening with… The Laid-Off Corps?

By CCF 

The Laid-Off Corps (L.O.C.) is an effort to highlight our talented group of BIPOC and trans workers who are open to work.

Imagine this: After the so-called racial reckoning of 2020, you land your first non-entry level job in the nonprofit industrial complex. It’s a position that feels uniquely built for you, and leadership is finally listening to you regarding white supremacy characteristics embedded in the organization. You can tell that their motivation isn’t quite in the right place—it’s about optics rather than lived reality—but you think you can move them there, given time.

Then, as quickly as your lived experience became validated and valued, four, five, six years later, it was not. You found yourself laid off and stunned from the whiplash.

If you’re a person of color, maybe you don’t have to imagine anything. Maybe this has happened to you. 

Global layoffs, after all, always hit workers of color the hardest. Whether it’s last-in, first-out policies, which will are hitting marginalized workers the hardest since companies only began trying to hire people from underrepresented groups after the summer of 2020; or the first cut was the entire DEI department when the first (and often only) inroad for BIPOC workers in an organization other than unpaid internships; or the fact that people of color face additional barriers in getting call backs coupled with research showing that 70% of professionals get hired at jobs where they know someone who work there, which favors white people; the end result is that people of color are being laid off more than their counterparts and staying unemployed longer.

In the 2nd Quarter of 2026, the unemployment rate among white people was 3.3%, Black people was 7.2%, Hispanic people was 5%, AAPI people was 3.8%, and of course, as per usual, Indigenous people were not considered.

Transgender people in this era have their own uphill battle in that they are the most likely to be under- or unemployed, and stay that way, with or without a layoff.

Laid-Off Corps 

The Laid-Off Corps (L.O.C.) is an effort to highlight our talented group of BIPOC and trans workers who are open to work.

While we can’t stop the trends happening in layoffs and hiring, we can L.O.C. arms with those on the L.O.C. list and ensure they don’t fall through the cracks. And the first step is getting a L.O.C. on who should be on the list. (I promise, I’ll stop with the bad puns.)

So, if you are currently laid off, and are open to work, BIPOC or trans (or both!), please add your information to this form. The resulting spreadsheet will be publicly available to our community so that people looking for temporary or permanent help can seek you out. 

Please be aware of how much information you want to provide knowing that it will go out on our Mighty Network and via our weekly email listserv and we do not vet people before allowing them to join either.

We envision the L.O.C. list will exist as a resource for people looking for temporary or long-term help at their consultancies and organizations and a pool for CCF Global to pull from for odd jobs we need as we can afford them. 

NOTE: This is for people who need the help. If you are a Caitlin Jenner or Beyoncé type with generational or independent wealth and don’t need the work, or if you are self-employed and want additional contracts but are not currently struggling, please do not use this form. This is meant to be a safety net for BIPOC and trans CCFers who are struggling following a layoff or an extended period of under- and unemployment due to their marginalized identity. Additionally, if you are white and cisgender, this form is not for you. Please respect the intention of this form and resource. 

Let us know in the comments, via email, or by carrier pigeon if you need to, what else we could do to help you if you are part of the L.O.C.!