Compass Working Capital works to expand the scope and impact of HUD’s Family Self-Sufficiency (FSS) program, a promising but underutilized savings and employment program for families living in federally subsidized housing.

LIFT coaches help parents set objectives like securing a safe home, living wages and a better education and connects them to the financial resources and networks they need.

Nurse-Family Partnership pairs specially trained registered nurses with vulnerable women who are pregnant with their first child, starting early in pregnancy and continuing through the child’s second birthday.

Springboard Collaborative, a nonprofit based in Philadelphia with programs in multiple cities, has helped close the literacy gap with a hands-on approach to involving parents — not just teachers and students — in literacy learning with in-home and summer programs.

Springboard to Opportunities’ Magnolia Mother’s Trust provides low-income, African-American mothers in Jackson, Mississippi, with $1,000 guarenteed income on a monthly basis, no strings attached, for 12 months straight.

Early Learning Ventures provides tools and resources that allow child care providers to streamline their business operations to give them more time and resources for caring for children.

Jumpstart partners with preschools serving low-income children (for example, Head Start programs), and trains volunteers to deliver a research-based, structured early literacy curriculum twice a week for two hours during the school year.

The Literacy Lab: Leading Men Fellowship offers fellowships for young men of color in a year-long, residency-style experience in which they provide evidence-based literacy support to pre-kindergarten students while receiving coaching and professional development.

The Luminos Fund provides transformative education programs to thousands of out-of-school children in Ethiopia, Lebanon, and Liberia, helping them to catch up to grade level, reintegrate into local schools, and prepare for lifelong learning.

MathTalk creates stories, public art, and augmented reality experiences focused on making media that allow children to enjoy learning math, collaborating with parents, teachers, researchers, organizers, designers, artists, game developers, entrepreneurs, and kids.

New Teacher Center partners with school districts around the U.S. to support and retain some 25,000+ new teachers per year. NTC works closely with district partners to train veteran teachers as mentors and coaches who work intensively with new teachers over a two-year period, with a focus on reaching under-served and vulnerable student populations.

Promoting Equality in African Schools (PEAS) builds affordable and quality secondary schools in areas of Africa where, each year, hundreds of children complete primary school but have no secondary school available to them.

The Coin Laundry Association’s Read, Play, Learn initiative, funds laundromat owners to provide books and learning materials to children and families to use on site and take home to build an at-home library.

Reading Partners works with school districts across the nation to provide volunteer tutors from the community to work one-on-one with students who are behind on reading.
Urban Teachers prepares, certifies, and supports new educators to provide high-quality education for children by offering a master’s degree, coaching, mentoring, and job placement.

WINGS uses an early and comprehensive approach to in-school and afterschool programs grounded in the principles of positive youth development and evidence-based social emotional learning practices to foster the mindsets, skills, and confidence within each child.