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Postecondary Socioeconomic Diversity
College-CBO collaboration helps students navigate selective college admissions
Consortium of selective colleges and CBOs equip high-performing students from lower-income backgrounds to achieve their dreams

INNOVATOR: Beth Breger

GROVE PARTNER: Tina Fernandez


Career Pathway for Educators
Rethink teacher prep in the face of teacher shortage
Novel approach grows work-based learning opportunities for students and expands and diversifies the teacher / counselor pipeline

INNOVATOR: Gary Linnen

GROVE PARTNER: Karin Goldmark


State Partnerships for College Access
Scale college access impact through state delivery channels
Package and distribute state-wide training for high school teachers and counselors in holistic, equity-focused college access

INNOVATOR: Melissa Connelly

GROVE PARTNER: J.B. Schramm


Postsecondary Persistence
Combine impact and scale via bot technology
Building on Bottom Line’s unsurpassed evidence base for postsecondary access and completion, test AI-driven tools to increase efficiency and scale

INNOVATOR: Steve Colón

GROVE PARTNER: Jim McCorkell


Postsecondary Persistence
Increase college persistence rates for underrepresented students through peer mentoring
Accomplished college leader works with PeerForward and stakeholders to refine the program model to maximize student impact and scalability

INNOVATOR: Raquel Figueroa

GROVE PARTNER: Aarti Dhupelia


Obsidian Ecosystem Initiative
Black and brown real estate developers advance equity in the industry
Connects the nation’s top emerging Black and brown real estate developers with education, workforce and infrastructure innovators to produce breakthrough neighborhood-level social and economic mobility outcomes

INNOVATOR: Joshua Elder

GROVE PARTNER: Derwin Sisnett


Centering Women in Real Estate
Landscaping women in real estate development
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The first national landscaping of women in real estate development, benchmarking representation and capital distribution

INNOVATOR: Michelle Armstrong
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GROVE PARTNER: Aubria Corbitt


Obsidian Catalyst Fund
Increase capital flow to impact-focused Black and brown developers
Design and raise a $50M real estate fund that unlocks the value of scale-ready, Black and brown Developers who know how to identify, navigate, and develop projects in high-growth urban communities

INNOVATOR: Bo Menkiti

GROVE PARTNER: Derwin Sisnett


Education in Latin America
Help Paraguayan students “leapfrog” inequities through powerful learning with technology
Design strategy and secure resources to adapt Digital Promise’s powerful learning model for the Paraguayan context with Fundación Paraguaya

INNOVATOR: Chaula Gupta

GROVE PARTNER: Martin Burt


Education Justice and Faith
Engage faith communities to address inequity in education outcomes
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Help the Leadership Initiative for Faith and Education at Harvard’s Graduate School of Education mobilize strategic faith and education partnerships, and support educators motivated by their faith.

INNOVATOR: Irvin Scott
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GROVE PARTNER: Jeff Nelson


Education Justice and Faith
Supporting leaders of faith who are reimagining public education
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Redemptive Leadership Project connects and supports diverse education leaders bridging across difference, motivated by their Christian faith
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INNOVATOR: Jeff Nelson

GROVE PARTNER: Tina Fernandez


Youth Development
Young people creating community solutions
YouthCreate will provide a national support system to empower local
non-profits to deliver high-quality youth-led community improvement projects.

INNOVATOR: Julian Ramirez

GROVE PARTNER: Dorothy Stoneman


University of Michigan Innovation
Collaboration with academic leadership and philanthropic partners driving impact
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Helping the university’s philanthropic partners and faculty innovators co-create and fuel solutions to the biggest challenges facing Michigan and the globe

INNOVATOR: Tom Baird

GROVE PARTNER: Nicole Baker Fulgham’s



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