Apprenti
Apprenti is the first nationally recognized apprenticeship intermediary dedicated to the tech sector. Their program leverages the time-tested model of Registered Apprenticeships to connect employers facing talent shortages with under- and unemployed individuals seeking economic mobility. Apprenti has placed more than 4,500 apprentices across all 50 states in tech occupations including software development, cybersecurity, and IT business analytics. To meet market demands, they recently began expanding into new industries including Human Resources and Life Sciences. Apprenti envisions a future where registered apprenticeships are a widely recognized and accessible pathway to meaningful careers with a living wage and upward mobility.
Braven
Braven helps college students build the skills, networks, confidence, and experience needed to close the college-to-career gap and unlock the full earning potential of their degree through a strong first job or graduate school. Working with institutions of higher education and employer partners, Braven offers a semester-long career readiness course called The Accelerator, followed by additional support, including mentorships with industry professionals, interview preparation, résumé building, and professional networking opportunities. To date, Braven has served 14,000 students nationwide and has ambitions to support the career readiness journeys of 80,000-100,000 students by 2032.
FreeWorld
FreeWorld empowers individuals with criminal histories to build successful careers in the trucking industry. Through credentialing support, job placement services, and a caring community, they help formerly incarcerated people secure high-wage jobs and overcome the biggest barriers to opportunity. To date, FreeWorld has generated over $190 million in estimated graduate earnings and transformed the lives of 3,300+ CDL-A graduates across eight states. By equipping people with the tools to thrive economically and socially, FreeWorld is helping to reshape access to opportunity for justice-impacted individuals.
Opportunity@Work
Opportunity@Work (O@W) is a national nonprofit on a mission to rewire the US labor market so that 70 million+ STARs—workers Skilled Through Alternative Routes, such as community college, military service, and on-the-job training—can regain upward mobility, enriching their careers and communities. O@W raises awareness and equips employers with data and tools to adopt skills-based hiring practices. Across their network, they have supported employers in shifting their hiring behaviors, leading to 500,000+ jobs being opened to STARs and meaningful increases in STARs hiring and wages. O@W will now accelerate these outcomes to eliminate degree screens for 1 million jobs, enabling 100,000 STAR hires by 2028.
REDF
Roberts Enterprise Development Fund (REDF) invests in businesses that reveal and reinforce the talent of people breaking through barriers to employment. For more than 25 years, REDF has fueled the growth of Employment Social Enterprises (ESEs)—mission-driven businesses that provide paying jobs, training, and support. Their national network of ESEs employs over 30,000 people annually as they enter or reenter the workforce. Since 1997, REDF has invested in more than 360 ESEs across 42 states and Washington, D.C. These enterprises have generated over $3 billion in revenue and employed more than 157,000 people, creating meaningful individual and economic impact. REDF envisions an economy that works for everyone.
SCALE + Lab | Marron Institute of Urban Management
The SCALE + Lab at New York University’s Marron Institute of Urban Management is an action-oriented, collaborative platform for building sustained growth and impact of interventions that advance social and economic mobility. The Lab helps translate the theoretical to the real world, using its direct experience to support leaders across sectors and disciplines in scaling their interventions. The SCALE + Lab’s initial body of work, the Behavioral Health Emergency Response Initiative (BHERi), aims to transform the nation’s emergency response system to better connect people experiencing a behavioral health crisis to effective community-based care and decrease entry into emergency departments or jails.
Centering Healthcare Institute (CHI)
Centering Healthcare Institute (CHI) disrupts inequitable systems through the Centering group model of healthcare. Through Centering groups, CHI strives to recreate a healthcare system that goes beyond medical interventions to build communities, empower and educate patients, and connect the most vulnerable with essential resources. Their flagship program, CenteringPregnancy, achieves these goals by offering group-based prenatal care that fosters education, support, and community among expecting mothers. CenteringPregnancy transforms traditional prenatal care by bringing together 8-12 women with similar due dates for group sessions that blend health assessments with peer learning and support. Mothers gain the ability to actively engage in their care, participate in meaningful discussions, and build lasting connections with each other. With over two decades of experience, CHI has scaled CenteringPregnancy to nearly 500 healthcare practices, serving an estimated 25,000 individuals annually across 44 states.
Power to Decide
Power to Decide envisions a society where everyone can achieve and maintain their sexual and reproductive well-being. This means having equitable access to the information, services, and support needed to make informed decisions about sexuality and reproduction throughout their lives. Through its digital portfolio, including Bedsider and AbortionFinder, Power to Decide provides trusted, resonant, and accurate information to young adults, particularly those in underserved communities. Power to Decide aims to increase the annual reach of its portfolio from 16 million to 24 million digital touchpoints, over the next three years. By leveraging innovative digital tools, and strategic partnerships, Power to Decide is dedicated to empowering young people to take control of their reproductive health.
CodePath
CodePath offers free, supplemental courses in cybersecurity, mobile app development, web development, and technical interview preparation across university partners and in a virtual format. Students also receive access to career services such as one-on-one mentoring sessions with industry professionals, technical interviewing support, and access to both pre-internship and technical internship programs.
The National Institute for Children’s Health Quality
The National Institute for Children’s Health Quality (NICHQ) envisions a world where every community, filled with realized power, leads transformative efforts that achieve optimal health for mothers, birthing people, and their infants. NICHQ aims to create a new framework in which communities lead and collaborate with trusted community-based organizations (CBOs), healthcare entities, and Perinatal Quality Collaboratives (PQCs) to improve perinatal and infant health. Leveraging their deep relationships and knowledge of the care system and expertise in creating impactful partnerships, NICHQ is poised to drive sustainable change for children and their families to achieve optimal health and maternal health outcomes for all populations in their communities.
NDN Collective
NDN Collective is an Indigenous-led organization focused on restoring ownership and control of key assets to Indigenous communities, with the aim of fostering social and economic mobility and building wealth. Through a range of interconnected strategies, NDN Collective works to increase both the quantity and scale of private and public investments flowing directly into Indigenous communities and organizations. Additionally, the organization provides technical assistance to strengthen the capacity of proximate organizations and leaders.
