This grant to the Women’s Foundation for a Greater Memphis (WFGM) will support their continued efforts to align people and resources, coordinate community-based services through a Two-Generation and person-centered approach that supports economic and social mobility. Foundation funding will support their development of a more comprehensive understanding and implementation of a two-generation approach, allowing them to realize their Vision 2025 Strategic Plan to expand investments and increase the impact of partners working to increase social and economic mobility for women and their families. View Website

This grant will continue the partnership with Power by Shakti to work directly with the human services team and partners by providing 2Gen technical assistance specifically aimed at identified state and federal lever of opportunities for change and improvements. A key body of work in 2024 will be focused on supporting the 2024 TANF Innovation and Action Community of Practice. View Website

This grant supports Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC) in expanding the capacity of community development organizations nationwide and promoting social and economic mobility and opportunities through arts and culture. View Website

This grant provides project support to the Accounting Aid Society (AAS) to expand tax preparation capacity in Detroit’s neighborhoods as part of the Detroit Tax Credit Coalition. Kresge funding will ensure that non-filers who typically do not file taxes but are eligible for public benefits through the tax system can fully benefit from public resources by supporting AAS to extend tax prep capacity beyond the traditional tax season and to expand into neighborhood sites to provide tax prep services in locations most proximate to residents. View Website

This grant provides project support to the United Way for Southeastern Michigan to facilitate the Detroit Tax Credit Coalition, which coordinates tax preparation providers, community-based outreach partners and civic and corporate leaders to advance economic mobility for Detroiters by ensuring access to benefits available through federal and state tax filings. View Website

This grant aims to support the next phase of the partnership with R. Adams & Associates, focused on examining the human services public sector's role in securing climate/environmental justice to advance multigenerational social and economic family success.

This grant aims to support the next phase of the partnership with the Economic Security Project (ESP), which is focused on activating and equipping the Guaranteed Income Community of Practice members to move from pilots to policy. This phase will likely include a national GBI summit in Detroit to catalyze existing efforts in Michigan. View Website

This grant supports the next phase of a partnership with Ideas42 focused on dismantling harmful Detroit narratives and adding more local partners, informed by behavioral science expertise, to develop campaign efforts, rigorously measure progress against damaging narratives, and disseminate findings for field building in other places. View Website

This grant supports the Mosaic Changemakers’ fellowship program (2023 Cohort), a leadership and network development program for BIPOC leaders in the South, including Memphis, working to advance economic and racial justice. View Website

This grant will provide operational support for the Economic Opportunity Funders to connect and align funders through events and joint learning opportunities to strengthen social and economic mobility outcomes for families. View Website

This grant will support UTEC to expand its youth-led organizing advocacy efforts to address systemic changes beyond the local and state levels to inform federal policy. UTEC will expand its highly successful approach of working with young adults impacted by the criminal justice system to eliminate barriers to their social and economic mobility and will provide peer education and action sessions with grantee partners to share their approach for field-building purposes. View Website

The Metro Action Commission will expand and strengthen service delivery, improve evidence-based research, and provide training/technical assistance to the national NextGen Cohort II. It will continue evidence-based research on 2Gen/Whole Family outcomes, particularly its program of accelerators. Its work will draw on partnerships with, among others, the American Public Human Services Association, Ascend at the Aspen Institute, National Community Action Partnership, and the U.S. Health and Human Services Office of Family and Community Services. View Website

This grant's purpose is to support the Asset Funders Network (AFN), a member-based philanthropic organization focused on wealth and asset building. This grant will support research and in-person and virtual convenings at the national and regional levels. Issue-based funder groups to help grantmakers connect and discover best practices, promising interventions, and actionable roles for philanthropy. View Website

This grant supports the enabling conditions for a network of human services policy and program professionals with personal involvement in systems such as public housing, child welfare, needs-based assistance programs and others. The network will advance equity-oriented, person-centered systems change and authentically collaborate and co-create with members of marginalized communities impacted by the same or similar system involvement. View Website

This grant will continue to build on Sycamore Institute’s work to implement a multi-pronged, 2Gen effort to advance social and economic mobility in Tennessee, including Memphis, through its policy research efforts. Sycamore’s efforts will help uncover systemic barriers to and opportunities for child and family well-being and create a community council to deepen the impact of community members and relevant stakeholders and further inform the research. View Website

This grant will support the Equity Alliance to improve civic engagement and increase voter participation rates in Memphis and other cities in Tennessee. View Website

This operating grant supports PolicyLink, a national research and action institute advancing racial and economic equity, to work with federal, state and local partners to advance its Winning on Equity campaign and deliver results for the 100 million economically insecure people in the United States. View Website

This grant will support the Center For Urban Families (CFUF) in expanding its community-designed 2Gen Ecosystem in Baltimore. The existing partnership will expand to include additional human service organizations and establish a more robust management and data system. View Website

Next River will undertake the second phase of its Freedom Revival project, which seeks to integrate "freedom practices" into systems, policies and place-based practices of the human services sector. The second phase will advance practices such as family coaching, motivational interviewing, human-centered design, and others. View Website

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