Our Portfolio

All Our Kin trains, supports, and sustains family child care educators to ensure that children and families have the foundation they need to succeed in school and in life.

Alternatives to Violence is a program implemented in Charlotte based on training provided by Cure Violence Global, an evidence-based violence reduction model with proven efficacy through scientific evaluations that demonstrate a 40-70% reduction in shootings and killings for national and international communities employing the model. Employing the Cure Violence Global model has also seen drops in shootings and killings up to 90% and a complete stop in retaliation and killings.

The Blueprint Math Fellows program partners with schools to offer high quality tutorial instruction for students struggling with math. Using daily student assessments, Fellows target gaps in a student’s foundational knowledge and understanding of mathematics, supporting students to dramatically improve their math proficiency. Many Fellows go on to become math teachers, creating a key teacher pipeline for school districts.

CareMessage is an intelligent cloud-based software that transforms communication for patients by providing personalized, interactive messages designed to educate, remind and motivate. It is used by community-based healthcare providers to help patients manage chronic health conditions.

Center for Employment Opportunities (CEO) provides effective, comprehensive employment services exclusively to people recently released from incarceration. The program incorporates life skills, education, immediate paid transitional employment and full-time job placement and retention services required to successfully build career capital and financial stability.

Child First’s model helps to heal and protect young children and families from the effects of chronic stress and trauma by fostering strong, nurturing relationships between child and caregiver and connecting families with needed services.

College Advising Corps supports an increase in the number of first generation students with college aspirations who enter and complete higher education by hiring and training recent college graduates as full time college advisers in public high schools.

Compass Working Capital is putting the tools to build assets and financial capabilities into the hands of families with barriers to economic mobility. By providing individualized financial coaching, Compass supports families in using those tools to reach their financial goals as a pathway to greater economic opportunity.

EveryoneOn creates social and economic opportunity by partnering with communities and organizations to connect families to affordable internet service, devices, and delivering digital skills training and digital inclusion support.

First Place for Youth’s My First Place program uses a youth-centered, trauma-informed approach to help youth aging out of the foster care system develop necessary skills for adulthood. Young people live independently in apartments and receive wraparound support, education and employment services to become self-sufficient.

Food Connect complements the existing food insecurity ecosystem by bridging the gap between food scarcity and abundance with new technologies through training volunteers, managing logistics and executing meal delivery to get food to families in need of dependable and nutritious meals.

Friends of the Children creates generational change by engaging children facing challenging home environments in 12 years of transformative mentoring relationships.