Our Grants

Asian Pacific American Institute for Congressional Studies (APAICS) promotes Asian American and Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander participation and representation at all levels of the political process, from community service to elected office. Our grant supports an alumni outreach and engagement program and embedding the concepts of place-based partnerships and development of related competencies into the flagship programming of APAICS.

Blue Meridian Partners’ Place Matters Initiative aims to improve economic and social mobility in communities across the U.S. Our grant provides foundational support for more significant investments in Place Based Partnerships, the needed ecosystem of supports, and to help promote effective implementation of this work nationally.

BMe Community is an award-winning network of innovators, leaders, and champions who invest in aspiring communities. Our grant supports the BMe Vanguard Fellowship Program, an intensive leadership experience for Black leaders, focused on expanding their knowledge, networks, and influence.

Catalyst:Ed works with state and local education agencies, schools, education nonprofits, youth-serving organizations, and foundations in all 50 states to address long-standing challenges and expand the limits of what they can accomplish. Our grant supports its efforts to develop and deploy a Talent Helpdesk for place-based partnerships. The Helpdesk will help organizations get answers to their questions, connect with consultants, and access curated resources.

Child Poverty Action Lab rethinks how data can be integrated into public systems, community programs, and neighborhood life to break cycles of intergenerational poverty in Dallas, Texas. Our grant supports CPAL’s university pipeline pilot, a partnership with universities designed to give college students real-world applied data projects to increase the source of talent to Place-Based Partnership careers.

Children’s Funding Project helps communities and states expand equitable opportunities for children and youth through strategic public financing. With hands-on technical assistance and a collection of resources, CFP helps advocates, policymakers, public agencies, and funders identify and align existing funding, generate new revenue, and implement strategies to administer funds in ways that maximize their impact. Our grant supports its efforts in building the foundational national and state capacity and standardized tools to support leaders in navigating and advocating for public funding for cradle-to-career programs.

Community Solutions works with US cities to end homelessness and solve other persistent challenges using data, collaboration, and clearing out structural and systemic barriers. Our grant helps to build their capacity of their “Built for Zero” Network that is an exemplar for rigorous Place Based Partnerships nationally, as well as helping them apply their data driven methodology to address the root causes of homelessness.

The Congressional Black Caucus Foundation advances the global Black community by developing leaders, informing policy, and educating the public. Our grant bolsters CBCF’s capacity to broaden recruitment, deliver training, and increase the number of participants in the existing internship and fellowship programs. It also helps build internal capacity to capture data on alumni through the recently created Alumni Network Council.

E3 Alliance is working to transform education systems through data and collaboration so all students in Central Texas can succeed. Our grant supports E3’s efforts to strengthen its data talent pipeline by developing a pilot internship program with Texas colleges, placing the interns across network partners within the Place-Based Partnership ecosystem. The organization will also formalize a professional mentorship program for staff in hard-to-recruit roles.

EdRedesign Lab at the Harvard Graduate School of Education seeks to ensure the social, emotional, physical, and academic development and wellbeing of all children and youth, especially those affected by racism and poverty. Our grant supports its launch of a visiting fellowship program for the next wave of leaders for cradle-to-career place-based partnerships.

Education Pioneers provides an entry point for skilled professionals to drive systems-level change in public education. Its fellowship program trains and develops high potential PreK-12 leaders who build bridges in polarized landscapes, lead inclusively, and amplify solutions for long-term change.

Enterprise addresses America’s massive shortage of affordable rental homes through innovative solutions, capital investment, and community development. This approach transforms homes and communities into places of pride, power, and belonging, serving as platforms for resilience and upward mobility. Our grant connects Enterprise’s partners, programs, and solutions within Place-Based Partnerships to meet housing needs, ultimately enhancing cradle-to-career outcomes.

Fuse Corps increases the capacity of local governments to engage communities, advance racial equity, and work more effectively for everyone. Fuse embeds experienced professionals to lead year-long executive fellowship projects in city and county agencies.

With more than one million members, GirlTREK is working to ensure that Black women can live longer, healthier lives. Energized by the discipline of daily walking, GirlTREK aims to sustain and scale behavior change and improve health outcomes while healing intergenerational trauma, fighting systemic racism, mobilizing community members, and advocating for health justice.

Govern For America bridges the gap between governments and emerging leaders to build a pipeline of diverse and dynamic public sector talent, building the next generation of public servants to create a more responsive government that better reflects and serves our communities.

Harlem Children’s Zone (HCZ) aims to end intergenerational poverty in Central Harlem with wraparound programming that builds up opportunities for children, families, and community members to thrive in school, work, and life. HCZ’s Wealth Builds program combines the organization’s holistic pathway of cradle-to-career services with financial education and capital investments at every stage of life to close the wealth gap.

Healthcare Anchor Network is a national collaboration of more than 70 leading healthcare systems building more inclusive and sustainable local economies. Our grant supports the Network to establish exemplars and codify how healthcare institutions can effectively collaborate in cross sector Place Based Partnerships.

Impact Genome Registry is a repository for impact data on more than 2.2 million global nonprofits and social programs, which catalogs standardized data on outcomes, strategies, beneficiaries, context, cost, and evidence quality. Our grant supports its efforts to scale the nonprofit benefits of an impact registry.

The Coalition for Community Schools based at the Institute for Educational Leadership engages leaders from across the country interested in implementing Community Schools to advocate for policies and funding to support Community Schools, while promoting high quality practice and knowledge sharing to increase quality and impact. Our grant enables the Coalition to promote the Essentials of Community Schools and lift up examples for those interested in this work to learn from and build upon.

The Institute for Nonprofit Practice supports the most promising social impact leaders to transform communities by equipping them with the skills, networks, confidence, and the resources they need. Our funding supports The Black Leadership Institute in Detroit, Seattle, and Los Angeles, which connects, inspires, and uplifts senior-level Black leaders shaping social impact across the country and across sectors.

LeaderIn creates space and community for purpose-driven business, public, and social executives to improve their overall resilience and well-being. LeaderIn is a membership community formed to address leadership burnout and provide the holistic leadership development needed to navigate a rapidly changing environment successfully.

Leadership for Educational Equity Foundation supports the mission-driven charitable and educational activities of Leadership for Educational Equity (LEE), an organization that seeks to build a diverse, enduring movement of leaders to engage civically within their communities to end the injustice of inequity. The foundation provides grants to conduct LEE educational events, sponsor internships and fellowships, and develop various resources.

Learning Policy Institute (LPI) conducts and communicates independent, high quality research to improve education policy and practice. Our grant enables LPI to build on their groundbreaking work to help schools and school districts better understand how to implement high quality Community Schools and braid multiple sources of funding to ensure exemplars are sustained long-term.

National League of Cities is comprised of city, town, and village leaders who are focused on improving the quality of life for their current and future constituents. Our grant supports the Bloomberg Local Infrastructure Hub, which connects cities and towns with the resources and expert advice they need to access federal infrastructure funding to drive local progress, improve communities, and deliver results for residents.

National Urban Fellows develops accomplished professionals of all ethnic and racial backgrounds, particularly people of color and women, to be leaders and change agents in the public and nonprofit sectors, with a strong commitment to social justice and equity. Our grant invests in National Urban Fellows’ organizational infrastructure to ensure that it continues to create a pipeline of diverse, well-prepared, executive level talent.

Northside Achievement Zone (NAZ) is a collaboration of 33 organizations and nine schools partnering with over 1,000 families to ensure that all children in North Minneapolis graduate from high school ready for college. Our grant supports NAZ to continue to deliver and grow high quality supports in early childhood, family engagement and education, and K 16 education.

Partners for Rural Impact works to accelerate outcomes for rural youth from cradle to career by strengthening civic infrastructure, increasing access to high quality programs, and driving investment. Our grant supports its efforts related to strengthening rural place-based partnerships, a key driver to ensuring youth are on a pathway to upward mobility.

Partners for Rural Impact builds rural capacity and infrastructure to strengthen leaders, organizations, and schools in under-resourced rural communities. Our grant enables its efforts to establish a place-based partnership in Mexico, Missouri.

Partners for Rural Impact (PRI) works to accelerate outcomes for rural youth from cradle-to-career by strengthening civic infrastructure, increasing access to high-quality programs, and driving investment. Our grant supports PRI’s efforts to strengthen its rural-talent pipeline by providing certification/credentialing, mentorship, and tuition support.

Public Allies Inc. is a national movement committed to advancing social justice and equity by engaging and activating the leadership capacities of all people. It partners with AmeriCorps to offer a dynamic leadership pipeline. The organization also offers trainings, activities, and programmatic interventions that provide participants with the necessary supports and structures to successfully transition to careers, higher education, and continued service.

Purpose Built Communities partners with local leaders to unleash the power and promise within neighborhoods, opening pathways to prosperity and opportunity for all. Our grant helps create and implement a data system across their national network of 27 Place Based Partnerships, which will drive more data-informed decisions and better outcomes for communities.

Save the Children Federation works in the U.S. and around the world to give children a healthy start in life, the opportunity to learn, and protection from harm. Our grant enables the organization’s advancement of a rural early learning (REaL) network of communities driven to improve kindergarten readiness and grade-level proficiency. This grant contributes to the establishment of about 20 REaL Impact Network communities, reaching an estimated 100,000 children.

Seeding Success is a cradle-to-career partnership that seeks to ensure every child in Memphis, Tennessee, has the support and resources needed to succeed. Our grant supports the partnership’s pilot program that will launch a graduate-level credentialing program covering localized systems transformation methodology in order to help grow and retain leaders with expertise in transforming public systems.

Spartanburg Academic Movement in South Carolina works to build equitable systems and inclusive economic mobility for children and teachers through cross-sector partnership, collaboration, and data-driven improvement. Our grant supports its efforts to build organizational core strength through local talent pipeline development by improving students’ career exposure and training in operational roles, especially finance and marketing/communications.

StriveTogether is a national network of Place Based Partnerships working and evolving together to advance equity and transform communities at all levels to ensure every child, from cradle to career, has a chance to succeed and thrive. Our grant helps strengthen network quality and supports and drives policy change at the local, state, and federal levels.

The Aspen Institute drives change through dialogue, leadership, and action to help solve the greatest challenges of our time. Our grant helps the organization continue its Economic Mobility Fellowship for business leaders who are enhancing economic mobility for low-wage workers while building long-term business value.

The Aspen Institute drives change through dialogue, leadership, and action to help solve the greatest challenges of our time. Our grant supports the scaling of its Opportunity Youth Forum network, which seeks to build and scale reconnection pathways to achieve better outcomes in education, employment, and overall wellbeing for opportunity youth (young people between the ages of 16 and 24 who are neither enrolled in school nor participating in the labor market).

The Barack Obama Foundation works to help people turn hope into action — to inspire, empower, and connect them to change their world. Our grant supports the foundation’s My Brother’s Keeper Alliance, which is focused on building safe and supportive communities for boys and young men of color.

The National Center for Community Schools based at Children’s Aid Society is committed to ensuring that there are no boundaries to young people’s aspirations and no limits to their potential. Building on its history of establishing some of the original Community Schools in the U.S., the National Center helps to increase the capacity of schools, districts, and community partners to leverage funding and resources inside and outside the traditional education systems to support student success at scale. Our grant enables subsidizing of technical assistance to a cohort of school districts and communities that can model high impact practice and creative financing for others interested in this work across the country.

The Commit Partnership is a Place Based Partnership composed of backbone staff and 200+ partners across Dallas County and the state of Texas. Our grant supports the Partnership’s continued work to improve and expand economic mobility pathways and to support more Texas students in attaining a living wage, through advocacy, policy, data, and analytics.

The Commit Partnership is a Place-Based Partnership composed of backbone staff and hundreds of partners across Dallas County and the state of Texas. It seeks to equitably increase educational attainment. Our grant supports the partnership’s pilot recruitment and retention program to grow local data and policy talent.

UP Partnership works to ensure all young people across Bexar County, Texas, are ready for the future. It does this by coordinating data, aligning pathways, and promoting policy change. Our grant supports the organization’s efforts to strengthen its local-data pipelines through a partnership with a Texas college, which will enhance the overall data capacities of the Place-Based Partnership (PBP) network in Bexar County and expose young people to careers in PBP.

Voices for National Service is a coalition of organizations that aims to develop bipartisan support for federal investment in national service initiatives. They educate the nation’s leaders on the impact of national service programs: leveraging human capital, tackling unmet needs, expanding opportunity, and strengthening communities.