Program areas at New Profit
Ecosystem buildingour ecosystem building efforts engage social entrepreneurs, policymakers, philanthropists, and other national and local stakeholders to transform how government and philanthropy think about how to collectively pursue social change and allocate resources. Through this work, we leverage deep insights of social innovators in our community to influence how resources flow in the sector to help remove barriers to sustained social progress.postsecondary innovations for equity (2020-2025) launched in 2020 to support innovators that are building evidence behind New approaches to connecting young adults from low-income communities with the postsecondary credentials and work experience needed to access upwardly mobile careers. An initiative of learn to earn, New Profit's postsecondary and career strategy, pie is a two-phase effort. The first 20 grantee-partners will be eligible for the second phase of the pie initiative, slated for launch in 2021, in which selected organizations will each receive $1 million build investments from New Profit over four years to further advance and scale their impact.through the early childhood support organization (ecso) initiative, we are working to provide resources and align financial incentives to support better early education outcomes for children from low-income communities. Ecso is a $20m public-private partnership between New Profit and the commonwealth of Massachusetts department of early education and care (eec). The initiative backs ecsos, which will serve as intermediary organizations that partner with local center and family-based early childhood providers to help them implement evidence-based strategies to achieve higher-quality program delivery and long-term impact.new Profit and a coalition of partners launched the future of work grand challenge in 2020. The cross-sector, equity-focused effort aims to rapidly reskill displaced workers into higher-wage jobs in and equip influential workforce boards with vetted tools. New Profit's future of work strategy aims to align employer, nonprofit, philanthropic, and government sectors to create a New learning ecosystem that works for the most vulnerable americans. Through a multi-racial, multi-ethnic network of philanthropists, practitioners, institutional funders, and social impact stakeholders, inclusive impact is designed to increase investments in leaders of color in the social sector so that we can leverage the diverse voices in our society to influence what a New era of social problem-solving could look like. Inclusive impact is initially focused on increasing investments in black, indigenous, and latino/a/x leaders because we have found that that they are significantly underrepresented at all levels of social sector leadership and face the largest disparities in terms of funding and support in the sector today.
Policyamerica forward is New Profit's dc-based, nonpartisan policy initiative that unites social entrepreneurs with policymakers to transform local impact into national change. America forward engages a coalition of over 100 social innovation organizations that are achieving measurable outcomes in more than 15,000 communities nationwide. Together, they champion a public policy agenda that fosters innovation, rewards results, and catalyzes cross-sector partnerships in education, early childhood, workforce development, youth development, and poverty alleviation. Coalition organizations have leveraged $1.9 billion for social innovation and have driven millions of federal resources toward programs that are achieving measurable results for those who need them most.