Voices
Dec 7, 2023
Place Matters: Learning from the Past, Envisioning the Future
Managing Director and Portfolio Lead Cecilia Gutierrez shares the personal motivations that have shaped her career trajectory and details how her experience driving regional change in Miami has informed her work with the Place Matters portfolio.
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Oct 13, 2023
A Fair Chance After Incarceration Includes the Opportunity to Dream Big
Senior Directors Scott Nolen and Le’Ann Duran discuss how the Justice and Mobility Fund’s recent scale-readiness investments aim to address the unique needs of justice-impacted populations and unlock opportunity post-incarceration.
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Sep 28, 2023
Inside an Investment to Advance Black Economic Mobility: a Q&A with Nicholas Pelzer
In this Q&A, Senior Director Nicholas Pelzer shares his thoughts on Blue Meridian's investment in the HBCU Transformation Project and the outcomes it aims to achieve.
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Feb 28, 2023
Partnering to Scale Strategies Nationally
Investee leaders within Blue Meridian’s Nationwide Solutions portfolio describe their organizations’ work, their vision for impact, and how their partnership with Blue Meridian has helped them on their scaling journey.
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Oct 19, 2022
Why Place Matters
Leaders from Blue Meridian, StriveTogether, William Julius Wilson Institute, and communities across the US describe the power of place and the role of place-based partnerships to transform the life trajectories of young people and families.
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Feb 25, 2022
A conversation between Nancy Roob and The Business of Giving podcast’s Denver Frederick
CEO Nancy Roob joins Denver Frederick's The Business of Giving Podcast to discuss Blue Meridian's pioneering approach to finding and funding scalable solutions to the problems that trap young people and families in poverty in the United States.
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Dec 1, 2021
Meeting Scale with Scale
Bringing together philanthropists and social sector leaders, Blue Meridian seeks to scale solutions to the problems facing young people and families in poverty in the US.
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Aug 25, 2020
The Future of Upskilling is Here: Webinar Recap
In a webinar co-hosted by Blue Meridian, Social Finance, and General Assembly, Jim Shelton shared his views on the current education and job training landscape in the U.S. and moderated a conversation about the Career Impact Bond (CIB).
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Jun 5, 2020
Unshackling the potential of every American in the wake of George Floyd killing
The tragic death of George Floyd & so many other Black Americans underscores the longstanding problem of systemic injustice. Jim Shelton shares his visions for rebuilding an equitable future & unleashing potential for all Americans with CNBC.
Voices
Jun 5, 2020
We Must Invest in Systems that Close Inequity Gaps
In an interview with CNBC, Jim Shelton discusses how Blue Meridian pools funds and invests in problems at scale in order to increase economic mobility, giving every Americans the opportunity to earn more than the generation before them.