GreenLight Fund

This week, we’re celebrating the incredible team members across GreenLight Fund who help keep our work connected, responsive, and moving forward.

Across the network, our Site Support Teams help drive GreenLight’s community-driven approach by supporting local operations, strengthening partnerships, and staying grounded in community priorities.

Our National Support Team provides the cross-functional expertise that strengthens collaboration across the network, supports local sites, and advances national initiatives, keeping our work aligned and connected across cities.

We are grateful for the dedication, care, and commitment they bring to this work every single day.

Artificial intelligence is creating new opportunities and new risks. In a new article for Youth Today, GreenLight Fund CEO Ali Knight explores what it will take to ensure young people aging out of foster care are not left behind.

Drawing on lived experience and GreenLight’s work alongside communities nationwide, Ali highlights three priorities:
1. Building real infrastructure for independent adulthood.
2. Treating AI and workforce readiness as essential skills.
3. Strengthening relationships while using technology to support, not replace, human connection.

GreenLight portfolio organizations, including First Place for Youth, Hopeworks, and Youth Villages, are helping young people build stable, fulfilling futures in a rapidly changing world.

“Foster youth should not be left behind; they should have every opportunity to move forward in a changing world.”

Read the full article: https://bit.ly/4dFzx6V