AMERICA ACHIEVES INC
244 Fifth Avenue Suite F71, New York, NY 10001 www.americaachieves.org

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Organizations Filed Purposes: Established in 2010, America Achieves advances fair access to educational and economic opportunity by serving as a scale-oriented incubator/accelerator as well as an advisor to and convener of key leaders focused on education. Our focus is to build pathways and skills needed for economic opportunity and success for all in a rapidly changing economy and world. We aim to create a shared understanding of the challenge, a range of potential solutions, and an evidence base to help students and learners obtain the education and skills they need to be successful in the 21st century workplace and in life. We catalyze large-scale impact by generating and incubating ideas and entrepreneurs, delivering thought partnership and philanthropic funding to promising and scalable models for impact, and convening and advising foundations and other key leaders to help incubate and scale evidence-based solutions. Since its inception, America Achieves has operated as a nonprofit accelerator that has incubat

America Achieves advances fair access to educational and economic opportunity by serving as a scale-oriented incubator/accelerator as well as an advisor to and convener of key leaders focused on education.

During this year, America Achieves transitioned our organization and as long planned successfully spun off the following programsall of them now independent 501c3s or as programs within established non-profits. CollegePoint: a coalition of nonprofit organizations and philanthropic institutions with the goal of enrolling high-achieving, low- and moderate-income students in top-performing colleges and universities nationwide. This was launched at America Achieves in 2014- and is now established as a full program inside Bloomberg Philanthropies.Merit America: a promising, scalable program in the nation to help low-income adults complete high-quality training, and secure family-wage jobs that afford career mobility. This was established in 2017 inside America Achieves and is now an independent 501c3 non-profit organization.GripTape: an initiative that provides leadership opportunities, decision-making authority, and resources necessary for young people to drive their own learning and build strong levels of agency. This was established in 2016 and is now an independent 501c3 organization. Educator Networks: programs that work with top educator networks to develop knowledge, products, tools, and insights to inform equity and future-driven career readiness. In its current form, Educator Networks was established in 2017 and is now established as a full program within Cambiar Education. While we successfully spun off the programs listed above and wound down our incubator activities, the COVID-19 pandemic created a new and urgent need and opportunity for so many organizationsincluding America Achieves. Beginning in the Summer 2020, we began pivoting our organization, track record, networks, and expertiseand our know-how as an incubator to focus fully on the establishment of a Back to Work Project to help address today's COVID-19 crisis and invest in long-term rebuilding and recovery as we move past COVID-19 in the coming years. Our goals are to advance economic mobility and a strong economic and educational recovery coming out of the pandemic-induced economic and educational crisis. To do so, our work will inform public policy and philanthropy including putting people back to work with the education and training needed to launch upwardly mobile, middle class careers and address important national and regional needs. This work will not only help support a medium-term economic and educational recovery, but it will also help address long-standing inequities exacerbated by the pandemic. Back to Work Project: The aim of the Back to Work project is inform public policy that can put millions of people back to work in good American jobs that address important national and regional priorities - with the experience, skills, and credentials needed for in-demand, upwardly mobile careers. This includes empowering young people and adults of all ages who are unemployed or underemployed with an evidence-based blend of paid work experience, education and training, and support needed for a good job and foundation for long-term economic security. A strong evidence base has emerged showcasing what's effective - and our aim is to inform public policy that can take those evidence-based practices to large scale. Our target policies and programs can address priorities such as rebuilding infrastructure, ensuring universal access to broadband, combatting COVID-19 learning loss and accelerating learning through evidence-based tutoring and mentoring. The project includes policy design, research, coalition-building, and communications research to inform these public policy purposes. Education to Employment Project: The aim of the Education to Employment project is to catalyze philanthropic action to equip learners with the education, skills and networks needed for economic opportunity and rewarding jobs and careers. In this project, we are conducting research to identify leading, scalable models to achieve this purpose, surveying the philanthropic and policy landscape, and identifying where there is the greatest philanthropic opportunity for funding and impact. We are engaging interested foundations to collaborate and explore co-funding the most promising programs - as well as to address specific needs such as for data to drive improvement and transparency. Moreover, we are helping interested foundations learn from our research, from one another, and from promising grantees about how they can make the maximum impact in this field.

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