This grant will support Springboard to Opportunities in promoting people-centered policy-making and movement-building in Jackson, MS, through storytelling and an international entrepreneurial learning exchange for Black mothers in Jackson. View Website

The purpose of this planning grant is to support the partnership with SHARED Strategy Group LLC (SSG) to develop a plan to implement a New Orleans 2Gen time limited learning and action community. This process will include SSG engaging with key NOLA stakeholders at the local and state level, reviewing existing data, consulting with Ascend at the Aspen Institute and others to inform the design of the learning and action community.  It should be noted that the Human Services team initiated a similar effort in NOLA at the beginning of 2020. However, that effort was suspended due to COVID. This opportunity reflects the continuation of a variation of the 2020 effort. View Website

The purpose of this grant is to support the partnership with Agape Child & Family Services to further efforts to leverage a two-generation approach to advance social and economic mobility through a place-based opportunity ecosystems. View Website

United Way of the Mid-South’s mission is to improve the quality of life for Mid-Southerners by mobilizing and aligning community resources to address priority issues. As part of the Kresge Funding Opportunity for Memphis, this grant supports Driving the Dream, an effort to create a network of human services organizations that will use uniform strategies and tools to create a coordinated, person-centered system that holistically supports a person’s effort to achieve well-being and financial self-sufficiency. View Website

StriveTogether is a national, nonprofit network of more than 70 community partnerships, that works to ensure that every child succeeds from cradle to career, regardless of race, income or ZIP code. This grant supports the expansion of the Accelerator Fund which is designed to aid communities in enacting comprehensive agendas for economic mobility for young people with low incomes. View Website

The mission of the Montgomery County Department of Health and Human Services is to promote and ensure the health and safety of the residents of Montgomery County and to build individual and family strength and self-sufficiency. This grant will provide strategic support to advance the Montgomery County Department of Health and Human Services’ Opportunity Ecosystem by integrating two additional county regions into its work.  View Website

Jefferson County Human Services collaborates with community partners to provide a wide-range of integrated services to meet diverse needs. This grant will provide strategic support for the Jefferson County Department of Human Services to improve its data collection and interoperability and expand its person-centered two-generation whole family approach across all agencies and partners. View Website

Community Solutions provides tools, data, coaching and supportive connections to assist communities in developing systems-level solutions to complex social problems, such as poverty and homelessness. This cross-team grant from our Arts & Culture, Health and Human Services programs supports the Brownsville Partnership, led by residents with 30 public and private partners, who work to improve responsiveness and efficacy of public housing and workforce development systems in Brownsville neighborhood in Brooklyn, NY. View Website

The MetroLab Network, hosted at Carnegie Mellon University, is a group of more than 35 city-university partnerships focused on bringing data, analytics, and innovation to city government. This grant supports the MetroLab’s Data Science and Human Services Lab which focuses on the intersection of data science and human services. View Website

The American Public Human Services Association is a bipartisan, nonprofit organization representing appointed state and local health and human service agency commissioners. The association will provide technical assistance and capacity-building support to human services organizations that operate together in an ecosystem of services for people with low-income. View Website

The American Public Human Services Association is a bipartisan, nonprofit organization representing appointed state and local health and human service agency commissioners. APHSA will advance social and economic mobility by providing technical assistance and a range of capacity building supports to human services organizations that operate together in an “ecosystem” of services for people with low incomes. View Website

Agape Child and Family Services is a recognized leader around the development and implementation of two-generation whole family service delivery with a focus on social and economic mobility. This grant will provide strategic support to enhance its infrastructure, data collection and utilization systems. View Website