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"How can we teach students to embrace their civic identity as members of their communities and support them in leading our nation's democratic renaissance?"

That's the question Elizabeth Clay Roy, CEO of Generation Citizen — a New Profit Build grantee — takes on in a recent op-ed for the Stanford Social Innovation Review.

It's a timely one. As she cites in her op-ed, only 16% of young people believe democracy is working for them. Clay Roy lays out how schools, as the largest remaining collective spaces in America, are uniquely positioned to change that.

She shares how Generation Citizen is partnering with schools to do exactly that — through experiential, project-based learning that has students actually practicing democracy on real local issues.

Read her op-ed to learn how we can move from isolated bright spots to a generation of young people who see civic participation as theirs to shape. ➡️ https://ssir.org/articles/entry/clay-roy-civics-education

Schools as Shared Civic Infrastructure (SSIR) How can we teach students to embrace their civic identity as members of their communities and support them in leading our nation's democratic renaissance?

🚀 Exciting news from our portfolio: CodePath — a New Profit Build grantee since 2022 — is part of an exciting new initiative.

Anthropic, CodePath, and Social Finance are launching 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' mission.

We’re excited to see this meaningful intersection of workforce development and AI capacity-building for the social sector!

US-based nonprofits can apply now.

Learn more:

Claude Corps Claude Corps connects early-career talent with mission-driven nonprofits to put AI to work. Apply to be a fellow or host.

In 2025, Brandeis University completed the most extensive impact evaluation of our 27-year history—analyzing 300+ conversations about what happens when we partner with social entrepreneurs over time.

The findings: our approach—combining capital, capacity, and community—delivers support that is trusted, effective, and enduring for proximate social entrepreneurs.

Alumni leaders report stronger boards, better leadership, clearer strategy. Most importantly, the impact persists long after our partnership ends. Our model proves that combining capital with capacity, community, and trust creates lasting change.

Learn more: https://newprofit.org/impact-story/the-enduring-power-of-partnership-findings-from-new-profits-largest-impact-evaluation/

What does it look like when bold, community-rooted organizations reimagine mental health and wellbeing from the ground up?

The Mental Health Equity Catalyze cohort is finding out. These organizations are working at the intersection of mental and behavioral health and the everyday conditions that shape it like education, employment, relationships, and social connection, and they’re doing it with cultural humility, creativity, and a genuine commitment to systemic change.

From leveraging technology and storytelling to driving policy advocacy and peer leadership, each organization brings a distinct approach to a shared vision: healthier communities for everyone.

We invite you to get closer to the cohort below. Watch their stories. Check out our new podcast miniseries, Better Terms, to dive deeper.

➡️ https://newprofit.org/impact-story/listen-in-stories-from-the-mental-health-equity-catalyze-cohort

Listen In: Stories from the Mental Health Equity Catalyze Cohort - New Profit The New Profit Mental Health Equity Catalyze cohort is transforming mental health care and addressing the conditions that shape it. Watch the video and explore the podcast series.

What is required of us today in order to create the future we desire? ⭐ Shruti Sehra, New Profit CEO, draws on a powerful lesson from her father, an engineer at NASA who spent his career building toward something most people could not yet imagine.

Shruti heard him speak shortly before his retirement, where he declared that personal flying vehicles (think: Jetsons vibes 🚀) would be commonplace "in the short term." When she asked what he meant, he told her that at NASA, short term means within 50 years.

"What my father's work taught me is that the short term and the long term are not in competition. They are the same work, seen at different scales. The question is whether we have the courage to hold both."

Shruti unpacks what this means for the social impact sector today: how to navigate funding volatility and policy headwinds while boldly investing in the future — through invention, intentionality, and community — and why proximity to communities is the key to lasting change.

💫 Read her full reflection: https://newprofit.org/impact-story/a-small-step-and-a-giant-leap/

A Small Step and A Giant Leap - New Profit New Profit CEO Shruti Sehra on why invention, intentionality, and community are how we take a small step and a giant leap at the same time.