As June draws to a close, we're pausing to celebrate an incredible first half of the year.
Since January, we've invested $3.7 million in unrestricted funding in high-impact organizations that are expanding access and opportunity in America. We opened applications for Connected Futures, a new Catalyze cohort designed for organizations bridging divides. And we launched our first Alumni Lab cohort to keep capital, capacity-building support, and community engagement opportunities flowing to alumni organizations.
Last week, we welcomed two extraordinary new partners into our Transform Portfolio. Big Picture Learning and Leading Educators join Braven, GirlTREK, and Transcend as our newest Transform Investments
As we head into our annual Rejuvenation Break from June 29-July 8, we're carrying this momentum and so much gratitude for the partners, supporters, and communities who make it all possible.
Big Picture Learning aims to transform the K-12 U.S. education system to enable all students to live fulfilling lives of their own design.
Leading Educators works with school systems to strengthen the conditions for powerful, relevant learning so every student can thrive in a complex, changing world. Their vision is to ensure that excellent, future-ready learning is the norm–not the exception.
Launched in 2024, New Profit Transform grantees receive $3M in funding over four years, along with dedicated strategic support and advising from a New Profit Deal Partner.
"New Profit is proud to walk alongside Big Picture Learning as they deepen their school partnerships, build compassionate leader pathways, expand their technology tools, and step into an exciting new chapter of field leadership.” — Molly O'Donnell, New Profit President & BPL Deal Partner.
“Leading Educators has built a strong track record of impact with school districts nationwide, and I'm excited to have a front-row seat to their work as they evolve and scale their model further.” — Wendy Lee Haines, New Profit Deal Partner.
Big Picture Learning and Leading Educators join Braven, GirlTREK, and Transcend as members of our Transform Portfolio.
New Profit will be closed from June 29 through July 8 for our organization-wide Rejuvenation break.
At this year’s Social Innovation Summit in Atlanta, CEO Shruti Sehra moderated a cross-sector panel on economic empowerment. Additionally, we also hosted a pre-conference gathering for social entrepreneurs called “Leading for the Long Arc.”
At the Guardian Summit in New Orleans, New Profit Partner Hassan Hassan joined Elaine Atherton (Camelback Ventures),Yesenia Gallardo Avila(LEMNIS), andCharlie Wolfson(Arrow Impact) for a panel on what it really takes to fund long-term social impact.
New Profit Managing Partner Shawn Dove joined The PlayFull Podcast, exploring why focusing on proximity rather than problems can revolutionize grant-making — and why sharing honest stories of struggle and recovery is a radical act of love.
ICYMI: Last month, New Profit CEO Shruti Sehra published an essay reflecting on what her father's NASA career taught her about holding the immediate and the long-term at the same time, and why that orientation matters for the social sector right now. She shares her vision for how New Profit will stay rooted in the present while boldly building toward the future through invention, intentionality, and community.
CATALYZE COHORT SPOTLIGHT
Better Terms is a podcast miniseries featuring the voices of founders and funders working toward mental health equity. Each episode explores the defining moments that shape why they do this work and what becomes possible when funding grows into true partnership.
In the first episode, Aaron Landrum, of The Deloitte Health Institute, and Erica Smith, CEO of Boys to Men Tucson and member of New Profit's 2025 Mental Health Equity Cohort, reflect on the experiences that shaped their work. From Aaron’s memories of his grandfather in Boston to Erica’s work creating healing spaces for Black and brown men in Tucson, the conversation explores masculinity, vulnerability, systems change, and why “systems need to be restructured — people don’t need to be fixed.”
Generation Citizen CEO Elizabeth Clay Roy wrote an op-ed in the Stanford Social Innovation Review on how schools are uniquely positioned to foster youth civic engagement. She shares how Generation Citizen is partnering with schools to do exactly that, through experiential, project-based learning that has students practicing democracy on real local issues.
Zearn CEO & Co-Founder Shalinee Sharma delivered a keynote at the South Carolina Department of Education's Palmetto Education Summit on creating the conditions for all students to learn and love math.
Growing Hope, is opening the Growing Hope Accelerator Kitchen this summer — a fully licensed shared commercial kitchen and collaborative retail space designed to support food entrepreneurs facing systemic barriers to capital, space, and market access. Built on a pipeline that has already launched more than 70 food businesses and 17 brick-and-mortar storefronts, the kitchen advances Growing Hope's vision for a community-owned food economy where the people who have always fed this community finally have infrastructure built for them.
CodePath is partnering with Anthropic and Social Finance to launch Claude Corps: a 12-month fellowship that matches AI-trained, early-career talent with nonprofits at no cost to the host organization. The fellowship will train and pay 1,000 early-career talent to spend a year advancing those organizations' missions. Braven has been selected as an inaugural host organization for Claude Corps.
Big Picture Learning announced a partnership with Bloomberg Philanthropies on a new initiative creating pathways for students to prepare for high-demand skilled trades careers through technical coursework, paid training experiences, and direct entry into Registered Apprenticeships.
Surge Institute's Interim CEO, Will Collins, reflects on visiting the new Obama Presidential Center—built in his home neighborhood on Chicago's South Side. He shares what the sprawling landmark means to him and why it makes "a statement about memory, possibility, belonging, and the power of place."
The Black Principals Network (BPN), powered by Surge Institute, supports the collective liberation, restoration, and professional development of Black school leaders nationwide. This fall, BPN brings its Eastern Regional Leadership Summit to Baltimore on October 9–10. Register now to lock in the early bird discount.
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