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07/03/2026

Better Terms, a podcast miniseries by New Profit, features the voices of founders and funders working towards mental health equity.

This episode asks: what does it feel like to lead during a time of shrinking resources and growing need?

It explores the emotional toll of constantly proving the value of your work, and the importance of funders listening beyond the grant application. Partnership, not competition, may be the only way forward.

🎧 Listen to the full episode: https://bettertermspodcast.transistor.fm/episodes/stories-of-us-beyond-the-grant-portal

06/29/2026

Stay connected to our community of changemakers! Check out our June newsletter for updates from New Profit and from our portfolio community.

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06/22/2026

In this episode of our Better Terms podcast miniseries, Reem Aly of the Ohio School-Based Health Alliance and Jordan Lewis of The Confess Project of America reflect on what it takes to build systems of care that last. From school-based healthcare in Ohio to mental health advocacy in barbershops across the country, the conversation explores sustainability, burnout, re-traumatization, and the hidden emotional cost of leading mission-driven work.

Better Terms, brought to you by New Profit, features founders and funders working toward mental health equity — exploring what becomes possible when we move beyond funding into true partnership.

🎧 Listen to the full episode: https://bettertermspodcast.transistor.fm/episodes/step-into-the-gaps

06/17/2026

We're thrilled to welcome Big Picture Learning and Leading Educators as our newest Transform Investments! 🎉

Each Transform grantee will receive $3M in funding over four years, alongside dedicated strategic and advising support from a New Profit Deal Partner.

“New Profit is proud to walk alongside Big Picture Learning as they deepen their school partnerships, build compassionate leader pathways, expand their technology tools, and step into an exciting new chapter of field leadership.” — Molly O'Donnell, New Profit President & BPL Deal Partner

“Leading Educators has built a strong track record of impact with school districts nationwide, and I'm excited to have a front-row seat to their work as they evolve and scale their model further,” — Wendy Lee Haines, New Profit Deal Partner

Learn more about each organization's impact: https://newprofit.org/impact-story/new-profit-welcomes-big-picture-learning-and-leading-educators-as-our-newest-transform-investments/

06/15/2026

"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

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?

06/12/2026

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

06/08/2026

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/

06/04/2026

Better Terms is a podcast miniseries featuring the voices of founders and funders working toward mental health equity. Each episode explores the defining moments that shape why they do this work and what becomes possible when funding grows into true partnership.

In the first episode, Aaron Landrum, of The Deloitte Health Institute, and Erica Smith, CEO of
Boys to Men Tucson and member of New Profit's 2025 Mental Health Equity Cohort, reflect on the experiences that shaped their work. From Aaron’s memories of his grandfather in Boston to Erica’s work creating healing spaces for Black and brown men in Tucson, the conversation explores masculinity, vulnerability, systems change, and why “systems need to be restructured — people don’t need to be fixed.”

🎧 Listen to the full episode: https://bettertermspodcast.transistor.fm/episodes/people-dont-need-to-be-fixed

05/30/2026

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

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.

05/15/2026

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/

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.