Places

The UP Partnership works with 175 partners, utilizing data and aligning resources, in order to create equitable systems to ensure all young people in Bexar County are ready for the future. Using a collective impact model, UP Partnership brings leaders together to design solutions for students.

The San Antonio Area Foundation works with donors to implement trust-based philanthropic practices. Their goal is to address the root causes of social challenges to create a city where one’s ZIP code no longer predicts their life outcomes.

The Commit Partnership (Commit) is a community navigator and connector of over 200 partners, working to ensure a prosperous Dallas County where place no longer predicts educational and future economic attainment. In partnership with The Child Poverty Action Lab, an organization dedicated to fighting childhood poverty, Commit will advance an agenda of economic and social mobility in Dallas County.

The Child Poverty Action Lab (CPAL) is dedicated to reducing Dallas’ child poverty rate by 50% within a single generation. Using an approach that is powered by resident expertise, centers on evidence, and emphasizes scale, CPAL collaborates with partners to drive impact across a breadth of systems and issue-areas affecting communities including basic needs, family, safety, education, and living-wage jobs.

Spartanburg Academic Movement (SAM) is a nonprofit organization helping to lead an inclusive recovery in the South Carolina Upstate, in addition to improving cradle‐to‐career outcomes for children in seven K‐12 school districts. In partnership with the Spartanburg County Foundation, SAM will work with school districts, businesses, public agencies, and faith‐based organizations to develop a strategic plan that addresses economic disparities and early childhood education in Spartanburg’s marginalized communities.

Watch a video featuring Dr. Russell Booker, CEO of Spartanburg Academic Movement, to learn why place matters in Spartanburg.

Oakland Promise is a nonprofit that offers every Oakland child (from newborns to college students) the financial resources, educational programming, mentorship, and a supportive community to help them and their families, to seek and thrive in higher education and the career of their choosing.  Their mission is to engage the Oakland community and advance economic mobility through cradle-to-college and career achievement.

Oakland Thrives (OT) is a public/private partnership between the City of Oakland, Alameda County, Oakland Unified School District, Kaiser Permanente, and community stakeholders to make Oakland’s children, families, and communities the healthiest in the nation. OT is the backbone organization that convenes decision makers to collaborate on policies that get results for Oakland families. Community engagement, and data guide their work in five policy areas: health, wealth, education, housing, and safety.

United Way of Greater Atlanta brings together people and resources to tackle complex issues and drive sustainable positive change to help the community thrive. They help achieve this by matching the efforts of people and organizations across Greater Atlanta’s 13 counties to work collectively on issues affecting child, family, and community well-being.   

The Birth through Eight Strategy for Tulsa (BEST), an initiative spearheaded by the George Kaiser Family Foundation, will increase the supply of and access to evidence-based programs for families and children from pre-conception through age eight in Tulsa County, OK. By providing a continuum of care and help navigating a range of services, BEST aims to ensure that every child meets developmental milestones, lives in a supportive family, and succeeds in school.

Watch a video featuring Ken Levit, Executive Director of the George Kaiser Family Foundation, to learn why place matters in Tulsa.

Get Ready Guilford Initiative seeks to support the physical, social-emotional, and cognitive well-being of children from birth to age eight in Guilford County, North Carolina region. The strategy, spearheaded by The Duke Endowment, aims to accelerate existing local efforts to improve early childhood outcomes – including healthy births, infant/toddler development, school readiness, and success by third grade – by bringing evidence-based programs to greater scale in these areas, improving the quality of local programs and catalyzing collective impact efforts.

Watch a video featuring Meka Sales, Director of Special Initiatives at The Duke Endowment, to learn why place matters in Guilford County.

The Governor’s Office for Children (GOC) in Maryland aims to improve the well-being of all kids and end child poverty in the state. Through partnerships across government, community, and the private sector, the GOC takes on the key issues impacting Maryland children. This cross-portfolio investment supports multiple Blue Meridian investees working in Maryland to expand access to basic income and assets, improve education outcomes, and grow workforce opportunities statewide.

Mission Economic Development Agency (MEDA) brings together public, private, and nonprofit partners using a collective impact framework to enrich the lives of children and families in the Mission District. In partnership with Mission Promise Neighborhood’s anti-poverty education initiative, MEDA works to break cycles of poverty and ensure every child can reach their full potential.

Parramore Kidz Zone (PKZ) is a data-driven, cradle-to-career collaboration between city government, schools, and nonprofits working to improve academic, health, social, and economic outcomes for youth residing in Orlando’s highest priority neighborhood. PKZ has achieved significant declines in juvenile arrests, teen pregnancies, and child abuse and recently expanded to three additional neighborhoods, now collectively known as Orlando Kidz Zones.

Northside Achievement Zone (NAZ) leads a collaborative of community partners that drive student and family wellbeing and success across early childhood, K-12, expanded learning, parent education and empowerment, housing, career, and community wellness. NAZ and its partners deliver pre-K-12 programming, pursue systems changes, and build resident voices through training and advocacy.

Watch a video featuring Sondra Samuels, President and CEO of Northside Achievement Zone, to learn why place matters in North Minneapolis.

REACH Riverside is an organization developed to transform the Riverside community into a healthy, thriving place to live. REACH is committed to increasing residents’ economic mobility, financial independence, and land ownership by investing in its three pillars: redevelopment, education, and community health.

Lift Orlando works with residents, business leaders, and partners to help strengthen The Communities of West Lakes. Lift does this by amplifying the voices of residents and by investing in mixed-income housing, cradle-to-career education pathways, health and wellness services, and economic viability opportunities.