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Economic Development
Intelligent Mobility as a Means to Improve Health Equity
Public and private leaders should collaborate to promote health amenities in different neighborhoods—enabling prospective residents to make relocation decisions that could improve their quality of life.
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Education
Equity Along the Paths to and Through College
How a New York community center is training college advisors, school counselors, volunteers, and members of community-based organizations to provide high-quality college advising.
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Social Enterprise
Setting Young People on a Path to Lifelong Success
Activating the entrepreneurial mindset in young people is critical to their future success and breaking down structural inequities in communities.
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Social Services
Embracing an Equity Lens in the Organization and Community
How a social service organization defined equity and made it a core of its programs for low-income families in the Northern Kentucky/Greater Cincinnati, Ohio region.
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Education
Sparking Opportunities for Education and Career Pathways
How a regional college consortium in California’s Central Valley uses technology and alternative programming to create equitable educational pathways for students with “some college, no degree.”
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Education
A Force for Equity in Parent Engagement
How an educational access collaborative evolved to give parents more say in creating educational opportunities for their children and help expand opportunities for first-generation students.
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Education
Creating Career Pipelines to Serve Aging Populations
How education and careers connected to the aging population can provide an opportunity for economic growth.
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Civic Engagement
Breaking Barriers, Shifting Narratives, and Expanding Opportunity
By designing programs and policies to overcome longstanding systemic barriers in communities, we can expand opportunities for equity.
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Philanthropy & Funding
Advancing Equity in Communities
This series, produced in partnership with Equal Measure, elevates the stories of communities that are breaking down structural barriers to opportunity, making change happen, and improving outcomes in areas such as expanding access to college, enhancing the financial well-being of families, and helping youth build pathways to careers. It aims to inspire new and inform current conversations about the role of equity in the development and evaluation of philanthropic investments. It is also a call to action for other communities and funders to engage in projects where equity is a central component.
