ANNUAL REPORT 2015 - 2016
AMERICA FORWARD’S LEGISLATIVE AND 2016 PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN ACTIVITIES
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NEW PROFIT
#ADVANCEEQUITY DIGITAL CAMPAIGN
#AdvanceEquity is a digital dialogue series about equity, America Forward, New Profit’s nonpartisan policy initiative
inclusion, and social impact. Powered by New Profit and Hiker
and coalition, engaged deeply in 2016 in advocacy efforts
and started in June 2016, the campaign is a digital buildout of
dedicated to advancing social innovation and social
the rich and provocative conversation that was started at New
entrepreneurship. America Forward conducted over 30 policy
Profit’s 2016 Gathering of Leaders.
briefings with Presidential campaign staff; drafted transition memos and policy recommendations for the first 100 days
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and first term; hosted Coalition site visits, Today’s Student town halls, and policy summits; placed 18 Today’s Student ambassadors on college campuses in three battleground states; and managed a robust communications effort. America Forward also played an active role in advocacy and implementation efforts around the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA), the Evidence-Based Policymaking Commission Act, and the Social Impact Partnerships to Pay for Results Act. www.AmericaForward.org
THE 2016 GATHERING OF LEADERS
OUR GROUNDBREAKING DELOITTE COLLABORATION
TULAINE MONTGOMERY (Managing Partner, New Profit), BRITTANY PACKNETT (Executive Director, St. Louis Region, Teach For America; Leader, Black Lives Matter), DEVAL PATRICK (Former Governor, Commonwealth of Massachusetts; Managing Director, Bain Capital) at the 2016 Gathering of Leaders.
We continued to strengthen and expand our groundbreaking collaboration with Deloitte in 2016, finishing capacity building projects with grantee-partners including New Leaders, College Possible, First Place for Youth, Eye to Eye, Roca Inc.,
The 12th annual Gathering of Leaders, held March 23-24,
New Teacher Center, and Match Education. In addition,
2016, was an extraordinary example of what can happen with
we collaborated with Deloitte to host a discussion on the
honesty and collaboration. This year’s event built upon the
future of problem solving with Nobel Peace Prize-winner
“Equity. Inclusion. Impact.” dialogue that we started last year,
Muhammad Yunus, and published “Millennials are Reshaping
moving from theory into action.
the World of Social Impact” in Fast Company.
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