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Represented below is a cross section of organization types, sizes, and missions that all hold social capital as an integral part of their work. We look forward to growing this community and further defining what it means to incorporate social capital into programs and policies.
If you are part of this network and would like to your organization listed below, please email us at general.us@thersa.org.
Organizations are listed alphabetically. Click on the alphabetical grouping below to be taken to that section of the directory.
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African American Mayors Association
The African American Mayors Association (AAMA) is the only organization exclusively representing African-American mayors in the United States. AAMA exists to empower local leaders for the benefit of their citizens. The role of the African American Mayors Association includes taking positions on public policies that impact the vitality and sustainability of cities; providing mayors with leadership and management tools; and creating a forum for member mayors to share best practices related to municipal management. The African American Mayors Association (AAMA) was launched on May 1, 2014 in Washington D.C. by a dynamic group of black mayors led by Sacramento, CA Mayor Kevin Johnson. AAMA was founded on the principles of transparency and accountability, which honors the rich legacy of black mayors including Maynard Jackson (Atlanta, GA), Ambassador Andrew Young, (Atlanta, GA), A.J. Cooper (Prichard, AL), Johnny Ford (Tuskegee, Alabama), and Wellington Webb (Denver, CO).
American Academy of Arts & Sciences
Founded in 1780, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences honors excellence and convenes leaders from every field of human endeavor to examine new ideas, address issues of importance to the nation and the world, and work together “to cultivate every art and science which may tend to advance the interest, honor, dignity, and happiness of a free, independent, and virtuous people.”
Learn more by visiting the AAA&S Economic Connectedness website.
The American Exchange Project's (AEP) mission is to connect our divided country. AEP is a first-of-its-kind domestic exchange program, connecting high school seniors with communities around the US. AEP gives high school seniors the chance to see their country for free.
They’re stitching our country together, one student, one high school, one hometown at a time.
Aspen Institute’s Weave: The Social Fabric Project
Weave: The Social Fabric Project tackles the problem of broken social trust that has left Americans divided, lonely, and in social gridlock. Weave connects, supports, and invests in local leaders stepping up to weave a new, inclusive social fabric where they live. The project was founded by New York Times columnist and author David Brooks at the Aspen Institute.
The Weave project supports weavers in three ways:
Connect weavers through events, training, and an online community.
Lift up the critical role of weavers as trusted social leaders, even when they don’t have titles or many resources, by providing them with funding, speaking opportunities, and sharing their stories.
Inspire more people to live a weaving way of life that values relationships as highly as their own achievements.
The Baggator Nexus is an emerging, informal network of people and groups focused on citizen empowerment. Rooted in the belief that some voices are privileged while others need amplification, the Nexus supports underrepresented communities through education, skill-building, and joy.
Based in Easton since 1999, Baggator has long served as a welcoming space for growth in one of the UK’s most diverse and economically disadvantaged areas. It brings together local residents, families, schools, employers, and community organizations to offer innovative programs that span learning, the arts, sports, bike repair, and IT—building both confidence and community.
Basta is a nonprofit closing the employment gap for first-generation students. Their model builds a bridge between employers and an untapped talent pipeline.
They do this through rigorous career-prep programs that directly support students in securing great jobs and internships. We also form strategic partnerships with the larger higher-ed and nonprofit ecosystem to scale students’ access to high-quality career prep and with employers to build a talent pipeline for all their hiring needs.
Learn more by visiting the Basta Insights Hub.
Beluga Pods
Beluga Pods is a wellbeing app that was created to reduce loneliness by helping people form small, meaningful communities around shared life experiences. Inspired by how beluga whales gather in close-knit pods, the app aims to create safe, supportive spaces where individuals—especially those navigating health challenges or major life transitions—can connect, reflect, and feel less alone.
Braven is a career-accelerating experience that prepares promising young people—many of whom are people of color, from low income backgrounds, and the first in their families to attend college—to secure a strong first opportunity after college graduation.
They work with higher education and employer partners to offer a life-changing experience that begins with a semester-long course for college students followed by support that lasts through graduation.
Together, they are helping to open up access to the American Promise, empowering a generation of leaders who mirror the demographics of our country.
Learn more by checking out the Braven Program Overview.
The Clayton Christensen Institute is a nonprofit, nonpartisan think tank dedicated to improving the world through disruptive innovation. Founded on the theories of Harvard professor Clayton M. Christensen, the Institute offers a unique framework for understanding many of society’s most pressing problems. Their mission is ambitious but clear: work to shape and elevate the conversation surrounding these issues through rigorous research and public outreach.
With an initial focus on education and health care, the Christensen Institute is redefining the way policymakers, community leaders, and innovators address the problems of our day by distilling and promoting the transformational power of disruptive innovation.
The Christensen Institute is based in the San Francisco Bay Area in California.
Climb Hire was founded in 2019 by three-time social entrepreneur Nitzan Pelman. She saw the need to create economic opportunity and mobility for working adults with great potential but limited growth in their current career paths.
Who you know matters as much as what you know. By teaching in-demand technical capabilities and evergreen people skills like relationship building and networking, Climb Hire has helped hundreds of Climbers land higher paying jobs and continue to achieve professional growth. Through their thriving community of Climbers past and present, they foster a continuous cycle of support that exponentially increases the value of connections for everyone within it.
Climb Hire is the most efficient way to help individuals build a strong professional network outside traditional education and gain valuable technical skills for new careers.
Climb Together is a dynamic nonprofit transforming economic mobility by embedding social capital into education and workforce programs. Evolving from its 2019 predecessor, Climb Hire, Climb Together now partners with institutions and agencies to develop strategic social capital training, deploy its AI practice coach Goldi, and activate alumni as connectors through a powerful engagement flywheel. Their evidence-backed approach helps learners build meaningful networks, secure referrals, and improve job outcomes—supported by top-tier funders and programs across the U.S.
Community Rowing Inc. (CRI) invites individuals of all backgrounds, abilities and experience to grow through rowing.
CRI is committed to their mission of transforming the Greater Boston community by growth gained through rowing. CRI values Diversity, Belonging and Respect, Personal Growth, and Resilience.
Learn more by checking out the CRI Impact Report.
The Connectors helps people develop effective strategies for forming relationships, uncovering resources, and connecting dots to move ideas forward.
They provide workshops, resources, and consulting in both physical and virtual environments to help people of all ages make the connections they need to move their ideas forward. Working with everyone from youth to senior leaders, they focus on a variety of topics, including effective verbal and written communication, approaches to outreach, and understanding cultural context. In addition to helping groups become better skilled at connecting, they also provide individual and team coaching and help make connections using our existing network.
COOP is building a diverse movement of upwardly mobile college grads overcoming underemployment through digital skills and peer connections. COOP wants to reignite our nation’s promise of upward mobility for those who strive to achieve a brighter future for themselves and their families—to ensure the American Dream is a reality for all. Their Fellowship ensures that first-gen and low-income college graduates make the connections they need for the careers they deserve.
Learn more by checking out the COOP Careers Program Overview.
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The Expectations Project mobilizes people of faith to demand excellent public schools for children who are Black, Brown, in poverty and otherwise marginalized. At The Expectations Project, they will continue to support and mobilize activism around policy changes that improve the material conditions of Black, Brown and marginalized students and ensures that every child is safe each time they walk into a school.
Foundation for Social Connection
At the Foundation for Social Connection (F4SC), they are leading the translation of research into action. F4SC does this by fostering the development and implementation of evidence-based models to address social isolation, loneliness, and social connection.
Their mission is to engage in education, increase public awareness, promote innovative research, and spur the development and implementation of evidence-based models that address social isolation, loneliness, and social connection.
Founded in 2000, Fresh Lifelines for Youth (FLY) is an award-winning nonprofit serving Bay Area youth impacted by the justice system. FLY serves more than 2,000 youth ages 11-25 throughout the Bay Area each year. They offer programs in four Bay Area Counties, and advocate at local and state levels to disrupt the pipeline to prison.
Their programs connect young people with positive mentors and role models, promote their understanding of the law and their rights, and support them to become leaders among their peers and in their communities.
FLY participates in local and state level advocacy work to change policies and practices that sustain the pipeline to prison. Together with their young people, they also help our justice systems become more just, humane, and equitable. As a result, FLY increases safety and decreases the costs and consequences of crime.
Learn more by checking out the Fly Program Overview and Fly Program Brochure.
At Good Faith Partnership (GFP), they create solutions to society’s most difficult problems. Their clients are diverse and complex, from the Home Office and Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office to church and multi-faith networks, business and multinationals. They connect businesses, governments, charities, philanthropists, foundations and communities to make lasting change - from incubating projects like Warm Welcome, rolling out Home Office’s Homes for Ukraine Scheme or co-ordinating public affairs for the Patriarch of Jerusalem in the UK, US and EU.
Guild was founded in 2015 with one simple belief: when opportunity is as evenly distributed as talent, everyone benefits. Individuals rise, companies grow, and our economy thrives.
They saw a country where millions of working adults were stuck in jobs without clear pathways to growth while thousands of employers were struggling to find employees with the skills to fill their open roles.
So, they built a bridge between education and employment: the Guild Career Opportunity Platform™. With it, they help millions of Americans gain the skills and support they need to grow in their careers.
As a public benefit corporation, Guild aligns the needs of companies, learning partners, and employees through a business model where they do well by doing good.
Healthy Places by Design works with philanthropies, associations, and others to engage local leaders and residents in community-designed, community-led, strategies to equitably improve local health and wellbeing.
Healthy Places by Design specializes in helping their clients and funders advance health equity and create healthy communities through policy, systems, and environmental changes. Their services are designed to provide direct technical assistance, support, training, and tools to community coalitions and leaders to drive actual systems-level community-health change.
Learn more by checking out Socially Connected Communities: Action Guide for Philanthropic Leaders and Socially Connected Communities: Solutions for Social Isolation.
InnerCity Weightlifting's (ICW) mission is to amplify the voice and agency of people who have been most impacted by systemic racism and mass incarceration.
ICW partners with program participants through case management and careers in and beyond personal training. Individuals are elevated as experts in fitness and the social issues they've lived. ICW is a culture and community in which power dynamics are flipped, social capital is bridged, and new leaders emerge in the fight to combat long-standing inequities.
The Institute for Social Capital is a global leader in social capital theory and practice. They believe in the importance of social capital and the transformative potential it can have when it is understood and valued. Social capital provides a framework for identifying, understanding, and communicating the importance of social processes, and has great importance in virtually every aspect of human activity.
Their approach to social capital is the result of over 20 years of experience researching and applying the concept. They have not just read the extensive academic literature on social capital; they have worked tirelessly to make sense of it and help other researchers too. They have asked the difficult questions to probe the meaning of the various meanings, aspects, and dimensions of social capital and the underlying theory and assumptions.
International Development Innovation Alliance
The International Development Innovation Alliance (IDIA) is a collaborative platform with the shared goal of “actively promoting and advancing innovation as a means to help achieve sustainable development”, including through the UN’s 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda.
IDIA activities are collaborative initiatives supported by subsets of IDIA Member agencies (and sometimes external partners too). They align with IDIA Learning Themes and may be focused on:
Raising the profile of innovation. Leveraging the collective voice and networks of IDIA Members to raise awareness of, and support for, innovation as a tool for enhancing development impact.
Synthesising knowledge and learning. Co-creating tools, frameworks and approaches to enable quality, localized innovation policies and processes.
Catalyzing collaboration and experimentation. Convening local and global actors around innovation programming in order to accelerate development impact.
Kings County Tennis League (KCTL) combines tennis and education to spark the potential of children living in and around Brooklyn public housing.
KCTL serves children living in and around Brooklyn public housing, using tennis and off-court educational activities as instruments for youth development. They remove the physical and financial barriers to tennis by renovating or creating courts on underused play spaces and bringing their staff, volunteers, equipment and programs directly to where their students reside. KCTL cultivates each child’s strengths while helping develop skills, values and relationships for future success.
Locality is the national membership network supporting local community organisations to be strong and successful.
They provide specialist advice, peer-learning, resources and campaigns to help every community thrive, including to take over and run assets for the benefit of local people. They believe that when communities come together, they can transform lives and build a fairer society.
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MASS Design Group was founded on the understanding that architecture’s influence reaches beyond individual buildings. MASS (Model of Architecture Serving Society) believes that architecture has a critical role to play in supporting communities to confront history, shape new narratives, collectively heal and project new possibilities for the future.
They are a team of over 200 architects, landscape architects, engineers, builders, furniture designers, makers, writers, filmmakers, and researchers representing 20 countries across the globe. They believe in expanding access to design that is purposeful, healing, and hopeful.
MENTOR’s mission is to fuel the quality and quantity of mentoring relationships for America’s young people and to close the mentoring gap for the one in three young people growing up without this critical support.
They do this by:
Advancing Local Field Leadership: Supporting the effectiveness of new and existing MENTOR Affiliates to scale MENTOR’s geographic footprint and deepen the impact of the mentoring field.
Expanding the Movement: Motivating civic leaders, employers, and individual stakeholders to prioritize and invest in ensuring all young people have access to mentoring relationships.
Prioritizing Quality: Identifying, promoting, and driving the implementation of evidence-based practices combined with community wisdom to increase the quality of mentoring relationships for young people.
Influencing Systems: Creating and guiding innovative solutions that integrate relationship-centered practices and policies while driving resources for the adoption of mentoring structures and mindsets within youth-serving systems.
Meta
The "Social Capital Lab" is a social science research group that sits within the computational social science and core applied science teams at Meta. They are research scientists that partner with academics, nonprofits, and NGOs to study social capital, migration, entrepreneurship, mobility, and measure and release datasets around social networks.
Everyday places lack a simple piece of social infrastructure, leading to missed connections and unnecessary loneliness. We lose opportunities to share ideas and meet the people around us: neighbors, future friends, collaborators in our own communities. Apps, meetups, and special events can't provide it at the scale or frequency required; places need to create it: a clearly marked connection spot where everyone can say hi. We call these spots MingleSpaces.
Our mission is to equip everyday places to create MingleSpaces and make spontaneous conversation a normal part of daily life. We provide free sign files, conversation prompts, and a growing community network that helps cafés, parks, festivals, campuses, and other places launch with minimal effort.
Miracle Messages is an award-winning 501(c)3 nonprofit organization that helps people experiencing homelessness rebuild their social support systems and financial security, primarily through family reunifications, a phone buddy program, and basic income pilots.
Miracle Messages is on a mission to end relational poverty on the streets and, in the process, inspire people everywhere to embrace their unhoused neighbors not as problems to be solved, but as people to be loved.
They envision a world where no one goes through homelessness alone, and where no one feels helpless on this issue.
Learn more by checking out the Miracle Money Proof-of-Concept (2021 Program Evaluation) and Miracle Money California (2023 Interim Report).
More in Common is a nonprofit organization working to bridge divides and strengthen democracy in the United States. Their mission is to understand the forces driving Americans apart, identify common ground, and help people come together to address shared challenges. Drawing on cutting-edge research, they develop and test practical solutions, partnering with leaders and organizations that have the ability to create meaningful impact at scale. In addition to supporting direct efforts, More in Common plays a key role in building the broader field of work aimed at reducing polarization and reinforcing the foundations of a healthy, inclusive civic life.
NALEO Educational Fund is the nation’s leading 501(c) (3) non-profit, non-partisan organization that facilitates full Latino participation in the American political process, from citizenship to public service.
Founded in 1981, NALEO Educational Fund achieves its mission through integrated strategies that include increasing the effectiveness of Latino policymakers, mobilizing the Latino community to engage in civic life and promoting policies that advance Latino political engagement.
The National League of Cities (NLC) is an organization comprised of city, town and village leaders that are focused on improving the quality of life for their current and future constituents.
With nearly 100 years of dedication to the strength and advancement of local governments, NLC has gained the trust and support of more than 2,700 cities across the nation. Their mission is to relentlessly advocate for, and protect the interests of, cities, towns and villages by influencing federal policy, strengthening local leadership and driving innovative solutions.
Newham London Borough Council, also known as Newham Council, is the local authority for the London Borough of Newham in Greater London, England. It is one of 32 London borough councils. The council is responsible for a wide range of public services, including social housing, education, and public health.
NYC Kids RISE is a nonprofit organization that provides families, schools, and communities with a way to work together to invest in and save for their children’s futures.
Building on the dreams and expectations that families have for their children’s futures, NYC Kids RISE aims to make attending and graduating from college and career training more achievable for all NYC public school students—regardless of where their family income or immigration status.
NYC Kids RISE manages the Save for College Program in partnership with NYC Public Schools and the City of New York.
Omega Community Development Corporation
The Omega CDC is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization established by the Omega Baptist Church in 1997.
Omega CDC is breaking the cycle of intergenerational poverty by catalyzing change in Northwest Dayton by focusing on education, economic stability, health and well-being, and community
Omega CDC has collaborated with public, philanthropic, and private funders to serve thousands of children and families over the last two decades. Omega CDC has expanded programs for children to include wrap-around services that address the needs of the whole family because we are serious about moving children and families from poverty to self-sufficiency!
Learn more by checking out Omega CDC Programs and Omega CDC Impact Report.
The Opportunity Network ignites the drive, curiosity, and agency of underrepresented students on their paths to and through college and into thriving careers, powered by their commitment to access and community.
OppNet was founded as a direct response to the inequitable structures of access, college opportunity, and professional mobility that disproportionately affect students of color and students from low-income communities.
Since its founding in 2003, OppNet has grown its programming and its institutional footprint to ensure its core goal is realized: reimagining networks as sources of power to catalyze opportunity and access for students from historically underrepresented communities, so they can drive their visions of college and career success forward.
Palo Alto High School
AVID & AP Capstone Peer Mentoring
Advancement Via Individual Determination (AVID) is an in-school academic support program for grades seven through twelve. The purpose of the program is to prepare first generation students for college eligibility and success.
AP Capstone is a sequential two-year research pathway that focuses on soft skills (team building), critical inquiry and problem solving. AP Capstone signals rigor to colleges.
Learn more by checking out Peer Mentorship at Palo Alto High School.
Public Policy Lab designs policy and services that help the American public build better lives.
They believe that people should have the opportunity to pursue a healthy life, a good education, rewarding work, and a secure retirement—and that government can offer public services that help all members of their society improve their well-being and prosperity.
Purpose Built Communities works with dynamic local leaders to cultivate and nourish an ecosystem of high-capacity, collaborative partners who invest directly in community-led projects that uplift the legacy and support the vision of the people who have long called that neighborhood home.
These projects include high-quality mixed-income housing, excellent schools, inclusive spaces that nurture and enrich residents’ physical and mental health and foster belonging, and a thriving commercial core that keeps the neighborhood economically vibrant.
Learn more by checking out the Purpose Built Communities Overview.
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Relationality Lab was founded out of a deep frustration with the way that relational work is often rendered invisible and under resources.
They work towards a future where people who do the work of relationship are recognized and resources for the value that they create. To get there, they help institutions understand and invest in relational outcomes.
Through systemic analysis and an innovative approach to complex race issues, Race Forward helps people take effective action toward racial equity. Race Forward works across communities most affected by systemic racism to build collective power for racial equity and presents the biennial Facing Race conference, the country’s largest multiracial conference on racial justice.
Race Forward also houses the Government Alliance on Race and Equity (GARE), a network of local, regional, and state government jurisdictions across the country working to achieve racial equity in their policies and practices; and Colorlines, a multimedia political home for everyday activists seeking to deepen their understanding of the societal structures that govern their lives and to connect with others to build the movement power needed to actualize a just multiracial democracy.
Learn more by checking out Racial Equity: Getting to Results.
Reckon With supports “white” people to acknowledge and repair racial harm in themselves, their families, and institutions they’re part of — every day. Reckon With’s intervention responds to decades of movement research and directives.
Many “white” people are motivated to take action against racial injustice. More are learning, donating, and organizing politically. Reckon With helps "white" people uncover what actions they can take in their own lives right now with the people and systems they’re already connected to.
Learn more by checking out the Reckon With Overview.
Rising Tide Capital is a non-profit organization whose mission is to transform lives and communities through entrepreneurship.
Rising Tide Capital provides business development services designed to transform lives by helping individuals start and grow successful businesses; build communities through collaborations with other non-profits, higher education institutions, corporations, and public agencies; and create a scalable program model with measurable impact which can be replicated in communities of need across the U.S.
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Rooted Finance is a free money advice charity that offers friendly, professional, and inclusive support to help people manage their finances. Originally launched in 2001 as Money Matters in Tower Hamlets, it evolved into Fair Money Advice in 2010 before becoming an independent organisation in 2022. Rooted Finance was created to better serve communities during the growing cost-of-living crisis, with a focus on equality, diversity, and inclusion.
The SecondMuse Foundation is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that advocates for a different approach for building inclusive and resilient societies and economies, which is referred to as relational wealth. It draws learning from the experiences of our partners, other organizations and communities around the world to advance the approach to a larger audience. The Foundation contributes to thought leadership, field building, and the creation of public goods on relational wealth. They seek to empower a community of practitioners and influence funders to better understand relational wealth and how it can be harnessed to benefit all people and the planet.
Learn more by checking out the SecondMuse Foundation Strategic Framework.
The Social Capital Academy (SCA) is a new game-changing program designed to connect junior-year college students with a team of mentors and successful business professionals who give their time to help each participating student reimagine and prepare for the working world ahead.
Many of their students are from underrepresented and first-generation backgrounds, often holding down jobs at the same time they are pursuing their degrees. Their professionals understand this and work alongside students’ busy schedules and competing demands. They offer valuable guidance and direction that may not otherwise be available to students through traditional academic channels.
Learn more by checking out the Social Capital Academy Brochure.
Social Capital Builders, Inc. (SCB) is a Black-owned and operated social enterprise whose mission is to raise the social capital literacy and connections of 1 million youth and adults by 2025. SCB is focused on using the power of social capital literacy, analysis, and development to advance the lifelong economic and social well-being of youth and families. Social Capital Builders is dedicated to serving all communities, especially those that have been severely impacted by racism, systemic inequities, and years of under and misrepresentation.
Silver Lining Mentoring empowers youth in foster care to thrive through committed mentoring relationships and the development of essential life skills. They are the only mentoring organization in Massachusetts, and one of the few in the country, exclusively focused on youth impacted by foster care.
Silver Lining Mentoring was founded in 2001 by a young man impacted by foster care. After four years of transient living in multiple foster homes and intermittent stays with friends, family, and his birth mother, Justin Pasquariello prepared to begin a new life with yet another foster family. Luckily, this new foster family proved to be his last stop. At age nine, Justin escaped the inconsistent and disruptive nature of life in the foster care system when his new foster family adopted him. Nine years later, as a freshman at Harvard College, Justin learned first-hand how one person can affect the life of another by becoming a mentor, and seeing the impact he and his mentee had on each other. In his senior year, he developed a mentoring program dedicated to serving youth in foster care in Greater Boston. In 2001, Justin forged an alliance with Mass Mentoring Partnership to pilot what was then called Adoption & Foster Care (AFC) Mentoring.
For a decade, The Spartanburg Academic Movement (SAM) has sharpened its focus considerably to continue work in their five Collaborative Action Network (CAN) areas of kindergarten readiness, third grade reading, eighth grade math, high school graduation rates and postsecondary education. SAM has formed the Postsecondary Educational Attainment Steering Committee to guide the next phase of work and community investment and mobilize the county around the five outcomes.
SAM’s vision, mission, and values are clear and direct their work to ensure Spartanburg County’s children reach academic and life success.
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Thread harnesses the power of relationships to create a new social fabric of diverse individuals deeply engaged with young people facing the most significant opportunity and achievement gaps. Founded in Baltimore, Maryland, Thread matches every enrolled young person with an extended family of diverse, caring volunteers who act as extended family and provide tailored support like rides to school, weekend dinners or navigating transitions to adulthood. This customized support aims to increase outcomes such as high school graduation rates, post high school pathways identification and a stronger sense of connection for everyone in their community.
Together is a coalition formed in 2020 in recognition of the enormous pressures impacting British society – first the division and polarisation that arose from years of debate about Brexit, then the loss of life and enormous hardship created by the Covid-19 pandemic.
Their aim is to build kinder, closer and more connected communities by bringing people together and bridging divides.
The Together Institute works with purpose-driven communities and networks and help them thrive.
They support values-aligned organizations with co-developing network-driven strategies, programming and training. And they collaborate on projects such as the Community Weaving framework co-created with Erin Dixon and Sita Magnuson.
For them, this work is personal: they have founded, stewarded and supported impact-driven communities for a combined 40+ years, and they’re grateful to do this work in collaboration with leading community practitioners worldwide.
Union Capital's mission is to transform social capital into opportunity by rewarding community engagement. They combine technology and relationship-building to strengthen community networks, build social capital, and create new pathways of opportunity for individuals and communities.
At Union Capital they provide the invitation and incentive for members to engage in their community in whatever capacity they desire and are able. Their vision is that ongoing community collaboration cultivates equity for all.
Learn more by checking out the Union Capital Program Overview and their 2025 Impact Report and 5-year Strategic Plan.
Unlimited Potential's vision is of "A sustainable world, with fair distribution of wealth and power, in which all people enjoy kind and meaningful lives."
Their aim is to make the world a happier and healthier place to live—where happiness is defined as the enjoyment of a full and meaningful life, and health as a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being.
UpTogether was founded as Family Independence Initiative (FII) in Oakland, California in 2001 after their founder saw firsthand the faults of the United States social services system. He was frustrated watching the same families cycle in and out of social service agencies, while the financial resources designed to support them did nothing to build their economic or social mobility.
They invest in people in historically undervalued communities and amplify their true lived experiences, working together to influence policies and mobilize for systems change.
The Urban Libraries Council is dedicated to strengthening and advancing the essential role of public libraries as a dynamic place for innovation, equity, and opportunity. They connect public library leaders and drive transformative change to enrich the lives of individuals and urban communities across North America.
The Urban Libraries Council is an innovation and action tank of North America’s leading public library systems. They drive cutting-edge research and strategic partnerships to elevate the power of libraries as essential, transformative institutions for the 21st century. They identify significant challenges facing today’s communities and develop new tools and techniques to help libraries achieve stronger outcomes in education, workforce and economic development, digital equity and race and social equity.
Wall Street Connection looks to build a stronger pipeline of diverse financial services & advisory professionals by providing overlooked socioeconomically disadvantaged youth exposure to the importance of and the wealth generating opportunities in the sector.
They serve the community through:
Delivery of a wraparound, experiential programming including:
Proprietary corporate and personal financial literacy curriculum
Stock pitch competition
Interactive panels with finance professionals
Externship opportunities
Access to partner organizations that align with their mission
Washington University in St. Louis
The Division of Student Affairs contributes to the educational mission of Washington University in St. Louis through intentional co-curricular learning experiences that complement our students’ academic curriculum. The division recognizes that student learning is most impactful when students are able to make significant connections across their many educational experiences, both in and outside of the classroom.
Taylor Family Center for Student Success
The Taylor Family Center for Student Success serves as a the central hub for low-income and first-generation undergraduate students at Washington University.
The We’re Right Here campaign is a united movement for community power, spanning places and communities across the UK and the political spectrum. Their campaign has a unique structure. It is funded and supported by a range of partners but is led by eight passionate community leaders. They have each achieved brilliant things for their areas – launching local services, saving community spaces at risk of closure, bringing derelict buildings into community use, and supporting local people to learn new skills and even build their own homes. Now, they work together to shape their strategy and lead their work.
The Y is dedicated to providing comprehensive programs and services that enrich communities — and all of the people who live in them — across the country in fulfillment of their mission.
Guided by their core values of caring, honesty, respect and responsibility, the Y is dedicated to giving people of all ages, backgrounds and walks of life the opportunity to reach their full potential with dignity.
Youth Empowerment Project engages underserved young people through community-based education, mentoring, enrichment, and employment readiness programs to help them develop skills and strengthen ties to family and community.
Their core purpose is to empower young people to improve their lives and the lives of others.
YEP was founded in 2004 by three juvenile justice advocates as the first juvenile reentry program for formerly incarcerated children in Louisiana, and it has grown into one of the most comprehensive nonprofits in Greater New Orleans providing services to a broad range of young people and their families. We now annually reach over 900 individuals from 13 parishes through four key programs across five locations: Central City, Mid-City, the West Bank, New Orleans East, and St. Charles Parish.
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