Solid Grants
We support tech non-profit founders who are focused on kids well-being and economic mobility. We back early and growth stage teams.
Founder Spotlight
Kid’s Well-Being
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We want to help kids, especially from underserved communities, to lead healthy internal lives, at school and at home. We support evidence-based mental health programs. We also believe that a broader range of approaches can help kids to thrive including improving literacy, healthy use of technology, and connecting through mentors to purpose and possibilities.
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Boys & Girls Clubs of the Peninsula (BGCP) empowers the youth in our community with equitable access to social, academic, and career opportunities to thrive.
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Closegap makes it simple for K-12 schools to support their students' emotional wellness through mental health check-ins.
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CommonLit provides educators with access to learning materials to teach the next generation the reading, writing, critical thinking, and communication skills needed to be successful in school, no matter their socioeconomic background.
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GripTape advances youth-driven learning with teenagers across the country. We exist where agency and passion meet learning and development.
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#HalfTheStory is on a mission to empower the next generation's relationship with technology. We equip young people with essential digital metacognition and emotional regulation skills to flourish in the digital world.
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Tickets for good, not greed. We are a social enterprise that provides hassle-free event ticketing while dedicating 100% of profits from booking fees to charity.
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Justice Outside advances racial justice and equity in the outdoors and environmental movement. We envision a world where Communities of Color experience safety, health, and joy through meaningful relationships with one another and the outdoors.
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Koko addresses the youth mental health crisis by meeting young people where they are — online — and providing free online digital interventions.
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Mindful Life Project helps transform underserved school communities from the inside out with mindfulness based social emotional learning programming.
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Quill.org helps students become strong writers, readers, and critical thinkers by providing real-time coaching and feedback through its free AI-powered literacy tools.
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Rocket Learning is a tech non-profit that improves high-quality early childhood education for marginalized children in India by partnering with and strengthening the government daycare system and transforming them into vibrant learning centres.
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TalkingPoints’ mission is to drive student success by unlocking the potential of families to fuel children’s learning, especially in under-resourced communities. Our AI-driven intervention coaches families and educators how to best partner to help children.
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VolunteerMatch matches inspired people with inspiring causes. We are the nation’s largest volunteer mobilization platform and a leading source of volunteers for nonprofits in the U.S. and Canada.
Economic Mobility
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We want people with high motivation, but limited opportunity, to get access to meaningful work so that they can improve life for themselves, their families and their communities. This includes career mentoring and improved access for high potential youth, and routes back to employment for people who need a second chance. We’ve backed talent development organizations and social enterprises, and we’re also working on ways to scale funding and access through employers and government.
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Brown’s model of career exploration gives students, including first generation to go to college, the skills they need to successfully prepare for and navigate a lifetime of evolving career opportunities and pathways.
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CareerVillage.org democratizes access to career information and advice for underrepresented individuals. We do that through blending technology with community, serving millions of learners and job seekers with high quality career development and support.
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The Center on Rural Innovation advances economic prosperity in rural America through the creation of inclusive tech economy ecosystems that support scalable entrepreneurship and tech job creation.
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Empowr is the school-to-career engineering pipeline for students of color. 100% of our early graduates have gone to college or made $80,000 at the age of eighteen.
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The Forestry and Fire Recruitment Program (FFRP) is a nonprofit organization that helps justice impacted people transition into careers as wildland firefighters.
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FreeWorld is a tech-enabled nonprofit working to reduce recidivism by building economic mobility for formerly incarcerated individuals. Today that means FreeWorld trains and places returning citizens into high-paying careers in last-mile trucking.
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Generation is a global nonprofit network that enables economic mobility for people around the world through employment programs and research.
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The Last Mile Education Fund closes critical gaps in financial and career support for financially vulnerable underrepresented college students in the “last mile” to graduation in high-demand STEM fields.
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MLT is a national nonprofit that is expanding economic mobility and transforming the career trajectories of people of color, while also standardizing and scaling racially equitable employer practices.
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Opportunity@Work is rewiring the U.S. labor market so all individuals Skilled Through Alternative Routes (STARs) can work, learn, and earn to their full potential.
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Questbridge connects the nation's most exceptional low-income youth with leading colleges and opportunities.
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Recidiviz is a tech non-profit that builds tools to help decision-makers improve criminal justice outcomes.
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REDF invests in businesses that reveal and reinforce the talent of people breaking through barriers to employment.
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Third Sector is a national technical assistance organization that advises our government agencies on effective ways to reshape their policies, systems, and services toward better outcomes for all people no matter their race, background, and circumstances.
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Unlocked Labs is building a better justice system from the inside out, by training, empowering, and employing justice-impacted software developers building technology to transform the justice system.