Innovator
Through collaboration with community partners, businesses and donors, we create new solutions that drive positive, lasting change.
Career Academies
Career Academies prepares high school students for in-demand, high wage careers through real-world experiences and training.
Full Lives
An innovative two-year initiative, Full Lives takes a community-driven, place-based approach to improving local food systems.
Big Challenges Require Big Ideas
Through intentional ongoing collaboration, we deliver innovative ways to solve community challenges, informed answers through data and technology, and scalable solutions built upon proven initiatives.
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Collaborate
We listen as experts in convening community and believe deliberate conversations with our nonprofit partners, the community and donors lead to innovation. -
Connect
We co-create and test emerging ideas and strategies with our nonprofit partners. -
Create Change
We amplify and scale promising strategies that drive results, impact change and significantly disrupt inequities by income, race or place.
Impact of Innovation
What’s Your Role?
Community Changemaker
We can’t do this work without the support of changemakers like you. Donate to help us fund innovative solutions or share your ideas for how we can fuel change in our community.
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"As we commemorate George Floyd’s life and his passing, it is heartbreaking that it took a tragic event for many to acknowledge the depths of injustice that exist and to engage in an urgent call for change. Yet, there is hope. "
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"We’ve been known for our workplace/employee giving campaigns and nonprofit grantmaking, but we wanted our other core impact areas – 211 Resource Helpline, advocacy and innovation – to equally shine. "
