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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
The first national landscaping of women in real estate development, benchmarking representation and capital distribution
INNOVATOR: Michelle Armstrong
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
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
GROVE PARTNER: Jeff Nelson
Education Justice and Faith
Supporting leaders of faith who are reimagining public education
Redemptive Leadership Project connects and supports diverse education leaders bridging across difference, motivated by their Christian faith
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
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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