The purpose of this cross-team grant between Human Services and Detroit is to support the next phase of the partnership with The Institute on Race, Power and Political Economy at the New School (The Institute). The work will include information exchange, facilitating transformative policies to ensure widespread and racially inclusive economic security, providing analytical feedback on inclusive economic efforts taking place across grantee partners, convening and managing learning and action roundtables, informing movement leaders, and the development of field-building tools. View Website

The purpose of this cross-team grant  with ACP is to support ThinkTennessee’s continued work in conducting public policy research, legislative and administrative advocacy, local engagement, and outreach in Tennessee, including Memphis, to promote voter access to drive systemic reform and to remove debt as a barrier to SEM. View Website

This grant to Hispanic Unity of Florida (HUF) will support and advance their social and economic mobility policy and advocacy efforts in support of people of color, immigrants, and community members living with low incomes. These efforts will build off prior work conducted during their participation in the second National NextGen Cohort. View Website

This grant will provide continued support to Arab Community Center for Economic and Social Services (ACCESS) to work internally and with its National Network for Arab American Communities (NNAAC) to strengthen their 2Gen approach to improve the social and economic mobility of the communities they serve. View Website

This grant will assist Knowledge Quest (KQ) to support their efforts to implement a two-generation approach with greater fidelity to ensure social and economic mobility (SEM) for more families in two neighborhoods of South Memphis. This investment will build off Knowledge Quest’s prior efforts through participation in the Memphis NextGen cohort. View Website

This grant will support the Oklahoma Native Assets Coalition, Inc (ONAC) to expand and strengthen its efforts to advance social and economic mobility for Native families through direct services, network building, and policy change. View Website

The purpose of this grant is to support the Human Services and Detroit Programs’ continued partnership with The City of Saint Paul, and the Saint Paul and Minnesota Foundation to develop a policy prototype for the nation around advancing income + asset strategies – where income and assets are combined into a single strategy. In this proposal, the income strategy is guaranteed income and the asset strategy is a baby bond-level investment into a child’s savings account. View Website

The purpose of this grant is to support the Human Services and Detroit Programs’ continued cross team participation with Nation Outside (NO) in the effort to address the collective carceral impact experienced by justice-impacted families and communities in Michigan, with a focus in Detroit, through strategies that improve civic empowerment, access, and economic mobility. View Website

This grant will support the next phase of Proinspire's "Catalyst Collective," which is a learning platform specifically designed for BILPOC CEOs and senior leaders within the Arts & Culture and Human Services grantee partners. View Website

The purpose of the grant is to continue to support the partnership with the American Public Human Services Association focused on person centered system change driven by the public sector. These efforts include a focus on leadership development, narrative change, policy influence, and capacity-building within the public and nonprofit human services sectors to center racial equity and racial justice to advance multigenerational family economic success and well-being. View Website

This grant will provide funding to Baltimore City to support the evaluation of its Guaranteed Income Pilot. Baltimore Young Families Success Fund will engage 200 young parents 18-24 with unconditional payments of $1000 for 24 months and is one of a small number of municipal led programs. View Website

This is a planning grant to create a workforce and entrepreneurial development program designed for and by people directly impacted by violence, the criminal justice system, and poverty in Detroit. View Website

This grant will support implementation of the Forum for Youth Investment's strategic plan under a new president who previously served at the US Department of Health and Human Services’ Administration for Children and Families, participated in the Human Services team's North Star convenings, and served as a thought partner to the team. View Website

This grant will support the Economic Policy Institute’s (EPI) EARN in the South program. Working with state policy organizations and grassroots organizers in 12 states, EPI and the group will adopt a shared vision for economic, racial, and gender equity in the South with policy design and debate that is informed and supported by community. View Website

The Collective will continue advocating for person-centered systems change through providing resources and supports that enable young adults to assume leadership roles and that set a policy agenda that promotes a more socially and economically just Memphis. View Website

This grant will build upon previous efforts to support the engagement of a national network of community advocates working under the umbrella of the George Washington University’s Center for Community Resilience in educating congressional members and staff to about community-based innovations that foster equitable opportunity for social and economic mobility. View Website

The purpose of this cross team grant between the Human Services, Detroit, and American Cities Program is to provide ongoing support to the Women’s Foundation of the South in the effort to support the collective health, wealth, and power of Black, Indigenous, Latinx, and Asian women and girls across 13 states in the American South. This effort aligns with the teams’ shared priority on closing wealth gaps and more specifically racial women’s wealth gaps which and important factors in supporting and strengthening families, communities and cities. View Website

This grant will support the Association for Enterprise Opportunity (AEO) to grow their research engine and capabilities and to generate greater understanding of how business ownership for women and people of color can serve as a critical driver for economic mobility. This grant builds on our previous support to AEO to conduct research and develop financial products to better support entrepreneurs towards improved social and economic mobility. View Website

This grant will provide continued support to the National Parent Leadership Training Institute (NPLTI) to expand their Parent Leadership and Civic Partnership Training Institute in Memphis, TN and New Orleans by increasing their community trainings and system capacity building with local government agencies and community-based organizations. View Website

This grant will enable LIFT to expand the reach of its family-centered coaching and technical assistance approach through the expansion of their Action and Training Tank. LIFT will retrain and expand its workforce to be able to provide technical assistance to public and private partners, with an eye toward influencing public policies and person-centered systems change. View Website