The Work of Opportunity
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Sep 29, 2025
As the US approaches its 250th anniversary, we are reflecting on America’s founding ideals—and asking whether the promise of opportunity still holds true today.
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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.
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Sep 25, 2020
Free early learning software available to children entering kindergarten in 2021
A spokesperson for Waterford UPSTART shares with Good Things Utah how the program is ensuring access to quality pre-K education for families across the state, including families that are unserved or underserved by existing pre-K options.
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Sep 24, 2020
Youth Villages’ Patrick Lawler to receive Jefferson Award, but it’s not last chapter
Multiplying Good honored Youth Villages CEO Pat Lawler with the 2020 Jefferson Award for Outstanding Public Service Benefiting the Disadvantaged for his work supporting foster care youth and transforming foster care systems.