Events

Date: October 16, 2026

Time: 9:00 AM CT

Featuring:  Join us to hear from Miguel Solis, President for Commit Partnership, the nation’s largest educational collective impact organizations with over 200 institutions (including 15 school districts and eight higher-ed institutions educating over 790,000 students), focused on improving post-secondary completion and economic mobility levels across the North Texas region.

Date: October 16, 2026

Time: 9:00 AM CT

Featuring: Join us for an inside look at how our second cohort of High-Impact Grantmaking Partners is expanding pathways to economic mobility across Houston. Leaders from San Jacinto College’s Promise Scholarship and BridgeYear’s Career Cohorts program, in partnership with Good Reason Houston, will share the results emerging from their work, the lessons they have learned along the way, and the innovative approaches helping more young people succeed in education, training, and careers.

In this recorded webinar, we are joined by Alan Cohen, Founder and CEO of the Child Poverty Action Lab (CPAL), a nationally recognized organization that partners across public systems, community organizations, and neighborhoods to use data‑driven, human‑centered design approaches to break cycles of intergenerational poverty and improve outcomes for children and families.

In this recorded webinar, the Community Foundation is joined by Sherri Chisholm, Executive Director, and AJCalhoun, Managing Director, at LOO. LOO, an entity of the Foundation For The Carolinas, supports Charlotte on its generations-long journey to improve economic mobility for all.

In this recorded webinar, the Community Foundation is joined by Brook Gilliam, Deputy Director of Community Coalition for Prosperity, Lena Porell, Strategic Planning and Community Engagement Manager at City of Tucson, and Helen Schaffer, Community Workforce Manager II at Pima County.

In this Economic Mobility Learning Series, we welcomed AmyAhrens Terpstra, Managing Director for Promise Partnership Utah, for a conversation on leading collective impact, cross-sector collaboration, and cradle-to-career outcomes that help young people achieve long-term economic mobility.

In this conversation, were joined by Opportunity Insights to explore their recent study of the HOPE VI program and what these findings can teach us about improving economic mobility.