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Oct 23, 2020

Blue Meridian Executive Offers Advice for Donors on Connecting With Effective Nonprofits

The Chronicle of Philanthropy highlights the Giving Done Right podcast, in which our COO Tiffany Gueye shares how donors can go beyond their traditional networks to identify and support organizations that are doing vital work effectively.

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Oct 20, 2020

Opening ‘so many doors for families’: COVID underscores importance of wrap-around care for new moms and children

USA Today shares how two of our Nationwide Solutions investees—HealthySteps and Nurse-Family Partnership—are working to close child and maternal care gaps in the US, which have been exacerbated by the COVID-19 crisis.

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Oct 16, 2020

Colorado teens pregnant during coronavirus face increased isolation and difficult decisions

The Colorado Sun reports on how investee Nurse-Family Partnership is helping teen mothers in the state overcome new challenges created by the COVID-19 crisis. 

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Oct 14, 2020

Charting New Investments and Increasing Impact: Q&A with Jim Shelton

Chief Investment and Impact Officer Jim Shelton shares both his priorities amidst pressing challenges and his reasons for optimism in his first year.

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Oct 13, 2020

Opening Doors to a Career

The Delaware Business Times highlights Year Up as one of several organizations expanding career opportunities for young people in Delaware.

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Oct 7, 2020

New Study Shows the Importance of Early Childhood Mental Health

A Park City, UT public radio station highlights Nurse-Family Partnership as one organization that is helping to improve childhood mental health outcomes.

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Oct 2, 2020

Effective Change Requires Proximate Leaders

Stanford Social Innovation Review highlights Family Independence Initiative as an example of the effectiveness of “proximate leaders” in developing solutions to the problems facing underserved communities.

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Oct 2, 2020

Bridging the opportunity divide: Local non-profit helps students achieve their goals

ABC Action News shares how Year Up's intensive career training program is bridging the opportunity divide and transforming the lives of young adults from underserved communities in the Tampa Bay area.

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Sep 30, 2020

Nurses can’t visit expectant moms in need. Rather than let COVID-19 kill their program, they visit virtually instead.

A local Pennsylvania news outlet highlights the work of nurses from the St. Luke’s Nurse-Family Partnership, who have provided resources and other critical support to first-time mothers and their babies throughout the COVID-19 pandemic via virtua

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Sep 28, 2020

Blue Meridian, Schmidt Futures back ‘career impact bonds’ via Social Finance’s UP Fund

Impact Alpha covers Blue Meridian’s investment in Social Finance’s UP Fund, which utilizes the Career Impact Bond to help underserved students and adults gain access to training for in-demand careers.