Charlotte Improves National Ranking On Economic Mobility, Moves To No. 38
Charlotte is making progress on economic mobility, but there is still more work to be done. Opportunity Insights, the Harvard University-based research group led by Dr. Raj Chetty, earlier this year published Changing Opportunity: Sociological Mechanisms Underlying Growing Class Gaps and Shrinking Race Gaps in Economic Mobility, which shows Charlotte moved from No. 50 to […]
The Workforce Almanac
Click here to explore Harvard’s tool that maps the workforce development sector across the United States. Link: Home (workforcealmanac.com) How it can be used
Official Launch: The Crescent Coalition
November 14th, 2023 New Education Coalition Catalyzing Change in College and Career Readiness In an unprecedented show of cooperation, nine Charlotte-Mecklenburg nonprofits have formed the Crescent Coalition, a collaboration to support under-resourced students along their educational journey. For too long, nonprofits such as these have tried to change students’ futures alone, but the task is […]
The GC Wealth Project
The GC Wealth Project is a key project from the Stone Center on Socioeconomic Inequality that gathers and assembles a variety of research and data on wealth, wealth inequalities, and wealth transfers and taxation across many countries. This tool provides a vivid picture of wealth distribution and inequalities through descriptive visualizations. Browse the resource here!
Benefits Cliff Community Lab: Explore local strategies and tools to improve economic mobility.
Building economic security for yourself and your family is the dream for many Americans. Navigating the financial barriers to economic mobility can be challenging and stressful to overcome. This is a reality experienced by many families in our community. This project aims to change the narrative and provide solutions for individuals and their families looking […]
Black Wealth Indicators
The Black Wealth Indicators bring together a dozen county-level measures of wealth from our Racial Wealth Equity Database. Search for one county to examine how an individual county measures up nationally or compare two counties. The tool paints a holistic picture of the variations that exist among communities and fuels a data-driven discussion on racial […]
Making Change: A State Advocacy Playbook for Equitable Education Finance
In “Making Change: A State Advocacy Playbook for Equitable Education Finance”, we share lessons from advocacy leaders in six states — California, Connecticut, Illinois, Kansas, Maryland, and Nevada — on the conditions that paved the way for positive changes in their education finance systems. Read More
Life Lessons: Tonya Jameson
From party life to party lines, the longtime Observer reporter and political consultant looks for opportunities to bring Charlotte’s diverse residents together. Read More about Leading on Opportunity’s very own Tonya Jameson: https://www.charlottemagazine.com/life-lessons-tonya-jameson/
A New Economic Mobility Tool for Change
Leading on Opportunity — an FFTC initiative focused on increasing pathways to opportunity for all — recently announced the Opportunity Compass, a new tool to help measure Charlotte’s collective progress on economic mobility that was developed in partnership with community leaders. The launch of this new visualization is a major step forward in the effort to […]
New tool helps Charlotte measure progress on economic mobility
Charlotte has a new way to examine itself and its efforts to improve economic mobility called the Opportunity Compass. It attempts to measure whether the community is making progress on its pledge to improve the odds that children born in poverty will make it out. The tool devised by Leading On Opportunity aims to help nonprofits, philanthropists and […]