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Center for Poverty Solutions
Chicago, IL

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The Center for Poverty Solutions works to identify and advance free-market policies that remove barriers to work and empower Chicagoans to move out of poverty and into full-time employment. By conducting original research, fostering partnerships between community leaders and employers and working to turn locally proven solutions into city and state law, the center helps ensure that Chicagoans closest to poverty are leading the drive to reduce it
At a Glance

Part of the SPN LaunchPad innovation ecosystem

Connected through co-creation workshops, the founders' mastermind, and the Pathways to Prosperity prize.

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Doxa Development
Flint, MI

Building Opportunity in Flint

Rebuilding economic opportunity in Flint, one block and one small business at a time.

Education & Policy Exchange
National

Connecting Education Innovation to Policy

Linking on-the-ground education innovation to the policymakers who can extend it.

Kidvation Global
Tulsa & Oklahoma City, OK

Rewriting What's Possible for Kids in Tulsa

A youth entrepreneurship program turning Tulsa classrooms into launchpads for the next generation of builders.