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 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.
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Sep 22, 2020
Step Up to Help Your Grantees Survive
The Center for Effective Philanthropy cites Blue Meridian as an example of pooling philanthropic capital to better support social sector leaders.
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Sep 21, 2020
NJ DCF To Launch Program for Older Youth in Foster Care
Insider NJ shares the launch of the Youth Villages LifeSet program in New Jersey, which will support youth as they transition out of the state’s foster care system.
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Sep 17, 2020
How to Help Parents Who Are Struggling to Provide for Their Kids
The New York Times highlights COVID-19 Emergency Relief investees GiveDirectly and No Kid Hungry as organizations that are providing critical support for families most impacted by the crisis.
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Sep 11, 2020
How Philanthropy Could Embrace More High-Risk, High-Reward Projects
In an article for Inside Philanthropy, Stuart Buck of Arnold Ventures cites Blue Meridian as an example of philanthropists taking on “projects with longer-lasting, broader impact” to solve important social problems.
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Sep 11, 2020
How to Apply to College During the Coronavirus Pandemic
Teen Vogue highlights College Possible—a Studio @ Blue Meridian participant—as one organization that’s helping low-income and first-generation students navigate the college admissions process amid the ongoing pandemic.