GreenLight knows that the programs best positioned to address local challenges may not be found close to home. So we search the country to find what’s innovative, what’s working and what fits the particular needs of our communities. Interact with the map below to learn more about our sites and portfolio organizations headquartered across the U.S.
If it’s out there, GreenLight will find it and bring it home to the communities we know best.
All Our Kin provides resources and training to family child care educators who operate small, home-based programs. With that support, educators succeed as business owners, working parents find quality, stable care for their children, and children are prepared for school and life.
Alternatives To Violence (ATV) is based on training provided by Cure Violence Global, an evidence-based violence reduction model that employs a public health approach to address violent crime. Through their trained violence interrupters and outreach workers, they are able to detect and interrupt potentially violent conflicts through mediation. The violence interrupters and outreach workers identify, assess and treat the highest at risk of committing violent crimes by establishing contacts and relationships. The model’s goal is to change community norms around violence.
Community violence and other stressors create at-risk environments where making positive life choices can feel impossible, particularly for young men from disadvantaged communities. Becoming a Man (BAM) helps these young men navigate difficult circumstances that threaten their future and become positive members of their school and community.
Blueprint Math Fellows partners with schools to offer high-quality tutorial instruction. Using daily student assessments to inform their work, fellows can target gaps in a student’s foundational knowledge of mathematics in order to ensure all students are able to achieve at and above grade level.
Blueprint Schools Network uses a research-based framework of comprehensive reform strategies to accelerate achievement in the nation’s highest need schools.
CareMessage is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization based in San Francisco, CA with a mission to empower healthcare organizations with mobile technologies to improve health outcomes and and reduce the cost of care.
The Center for Employment Opportunities is dedicated to providing immediate, effective and comprehensive employment services to men and women with recent criminal convictions. CEO’s highly structured and tightly supervised programs help participants regain the skills and confidence needed for successful transitions to stable, productive lives.
The Center for Employment Opportunities (CEO) is dedicated to providing immediate, effective and comprehensive employment services to men and women with recent criminal convictions. CEO’s highly structured and tightly supervised programs help participants regain the skills and confidence needed for successful transitions to stable, productive lives.
The Center for Employment Opportunities (CEO) is dedicated to providing immediate, effective, and comprehensive employment services to men and women with recent criminal convictions. CEO’s highly structured and tightly supervised programs help participants regain the skills and confidence needed for successful transitions to stable, productive lives.
The Center for Employment Opportunities is dedicated to providing immediate, effective and comprehensive employment services to men and women with recent criminal convictions. CEO’s highly structured and tightly supervised programs help participants regain the skills and confidence needed for successful transitions to stable, productive lives.
The Center for Employment Opportunities (CEO) is dedicated to providing immediate, effective, and comprehensive employment services to men and women with recent criminal convictions. CEO’s highly structured and tightly supervised programs help participants regain the skills and confidence needed for successful transitions to stable, productive lives.
Child First is a two-generation model that addresses toxic stress and trauma in historically under-resourced families with young children. Child First aims to prevent emotional disturbance, developmental problems, abuse, and neglect through psychotherapeutic intervention, intensive care coordination, and enhancement of executive function.
College Advising Corps increases the number of low-income, first generation college and underrepresented students who enter and complete higher education by hiring and training recent college graduates as full-time college advisers.
Compass Working Capital believes that all families deserve the opportunity to save for and invest in their future. Compass combines this belief in people with a commitment to the role that assets and financial capabilities play in supporting families to access greater economic opportunity, and move up and out of poverty.
EveryoneOn is a nonprofit dedicated to creating social and economic opportunity by connecting low-income families to affordable internet service and computers, and delivering digital skills trainings.
My First Place is an education and employment program that serves young adults who are in or are emancipated from child welfare or probation systems. The program employs housing and case management supports to provide participants with the stable foundations that enable them to successfully transition to self-sufficiency.
Food Connect creates a new standard for collaborating – Bridging the gap between food scarcity and abundance with new technologies that connect rather than compete.
The Fountain Fund provides low-interest loans and financial coaching to people formerly incarcerated, helping them build credit and achieve their self-determined goals. The organization also connects its Client Partners with community resources for support and advocates for public policy that increases economic opportunities and reduces obstacles for people formerly incarcerated.
Friends of the Children creates generational change by engaging children from high risk-communities in 12 years of transformative mentoring relationships.
Genesys Works changes the life trajectories of low-income high school students by enabling them to work in meaningful internships, at major corporations, during their senior year in high school. After an eight week intensive training program, students work with partner companies where they discover that they can indeed succeed as professionals in the corporate world.
HomeStart’s Renew Collaborative prevents eviction by creating household financial blueprints, providing rental assistance and 12 months of post-crisis stabilization case management.
Hopeworks is a nonprofit social enterprise that serves young professionals ages 16-27 by providing professional training, internships and real-world business experience in fields such as Geographic Information Systems (GIS), web design and trauma-informed training and solutions.
Inner Explorer’s mission is to make the daily practice of mindfulness approachable and accessible for all school communities. They work to equip educators, students, and their families with valuable social emotional skills that foster human potential serving to inoculate them against stress and poverty.
Let Everyone Advance with Dignity (LEAD) is a public health approach to community safety that diverts individuals cycling in and out of the legal system into a long-term case management model of care to decrease recidivism and improve stability for residents facing challenges with non-violent behaviors often criminalized.
The Literacy Lab’s Leading Men Fellowship (LMF) is designed to close the literacy gap that exists within traditionally underserved and marginalized communities. The program works with young men of color, providing them with the opportunity to begin their careers in education by serving pre-K students as early literacy tutors for an entire school year.
The Literacy Lab’s Leading Men Fellowship (LMF) empowers and equips young men of color, ages 18-24, with opportunities in the field of education by serving as a Pre-K literacy tutor to help close the literacy gap within underserved and marginalized communities.
New Teacher Center improves student learning by accelerating the effectiveness of new teachers, experienced teachers and school leaders.
New Teacher Center (NTC) is committed to disrupting the educational inequities for systemically underserved students to ensure every student receives an excellent and equitable education that empowers them to reach their full potential in classrooms, communities, and beyond.
ParentChild+ (formerly Parent Child Home Program) provides under-resourced families with the necessary skills and tools to help their children thrive in school and life.
ParentChild+ envisions every child entering school ready to succeed because every parent has the knowledge and resources to build school readiness where it starts: the home. Families receive 92 home visits and acquire a library of high-quality books, educational toys, and curricular guide sheets with tips on vocabulary-building, engaging conversation, skill development, social-emotional development, imaginative play, and literacy, music, and art activities.
ParentChild+ envisions every child entering school ready to succeed because every parent has the knowledge and resources to build school readiness where it starts: the home.
Peer Health Exchange gives teenagers the knowledge and skills they need to make healthy decisions by training college students to teach a comprehensive health curriculum in public high schools that lack health education.
Talent is ubiquitous, opportunity is not. Per Scholas was founded more than 20 years ago with a mission to open doors to transformative technology careers for individuals from often overlooked communities.
Point Source Youth works to prevent and end homelessness for young people by equipping them with the resources and wrap-around services they need to make the best decisions they’ve determined for their own lives.
Raising A Reader is an evidence-based early literacy program that helps families of young children (newborn through age eight) develop, practice and maintain habits of reading together at home.
Single Stop helps low-income individuals persist through college and achieve financial self-sufficiency and economic mobility by providing access to benefits and services.
Single Stop helps low-income individuals persist through college and achieve financial self-sufficiency and economic mobility by providing access to benefits and services.
Springboard Collaborative closes the reading achievement gap by coaching teachers, training family members and incentivizing learning so that scholars have the requisite skills to access life opportunities.
Springboard’s research-based model coaches teachers and engages families in a goal-based program that reverses summer learning loss and builds at-home reading skills for pre-K through third-grade.
uAspire works to ensure that all young people have the financial information and resources necessary to find an affordable path to – and through – a post-secondary education.
UpTogether empowers low-income families to move out of poverty through access to connections, choice and capital. UpTogether invests resources based on the strengths and initiatives families demonstrate toward improving their lives.
UpTogether is a community, a movement and a platform that highlights, invests in and accelerates the initiatives people in historically undervalued communities are taking to improve their lives and move up, together.
Too many girls and young women are exposed to traumatic experiences as a result of systemic racism—community violence, grief, and loss . For girls and young women, the trauma leads to PTSD, anxiety, and depression—significantly more than their male peers. WOW is an in-school, group-based counseling and clinical mentoring program that cultivates leadership, promotes mental health, and fosters the social-emotional skills of girls and young women in grades 6th -12th.
Year Up’s mission is to close the opportunity divide by providing urban young adults with the skills, experience and support that will empower them to reach their potential through professional careers and higher education.
BAM and WOW, two programs of Youth Guidance, are highly engaging school-based counseling and mentoring programs that promote social-emotional and psychological well-being, strong school engagement, and increased academic attainment for students in grades 7-12.
YVLifeSet provides support to young people who are aging out of foster care by helping them find safe housing, continue education or training, achieve stable employment and build healthy support systems.
