Join us on Wednesday, December 17 to discuss innovative policies, community-driven initiatives, and cross-sector strategies that cities can implement to foster Black wealth creation, support asset building, and ensure long-term economic equity and prosperity.

Across the country, local leaders are driving bold, data-driven strategies to build inclusive economies and advance Black prosperity. Through insights from the field, demonstrations of innovative data tools, and examples of promising practices already making an impact, this webinar offers a road map for turning data into action.

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Event Details:

Welcome

• Christina Prinvil, Research Analyst, Research to Action Lab, Urban Institute

Diagnostic Tool Presentation

• Noah McDaniel, Research Associate, Housing and Communities Division, Urban Institute

Fireside Chat

• Andre K. Fowlkes, President, Start Co. Memphis

• Ellen Shepard, CEO and Principal, Community Allies

• Brett Theodos, Senior Fellow, Housing and Communities Division, Urban Institute (moderator)

Local Strategies and Data Panel

• LesLeigh D. Ford, Associate Director, Center for Equity and Community Impact, Urban Institute

• Harsha Mallajosyula, Data Director, Black Wealth Data Center

• Michael Neal, Senior Fellow, Housing and Communities Division, Urban Institute

• Kimberly Burrowes, Senior Training and Technical Assistance Manager, Research to Action Lab, Urban Institute (moderator)

Please join Dēmos and Nonprofit Quarterly (NPQ) for a one-hour webinar, “We've Been Here Before: Planning for a Third Reconstruction" as panelists share their perspectives on what it takes to devise new social norms, new institutions, and new forms of power that can advance racial and economic justice.

In the fourth week of our Third Reconstruction series, Sulma Arias—executive director of People’s Action—lays out how we defeat authoritarianism and build the multiracial democracy America has never fully achieved.

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Panelists:

• Peniel Joseph, Historian

• Analilia Mejia, Center for Popular Democracy Co-Executive Director

• Richard Besser, Robert Wood Johnson President & CEO

• Taifa Butler, Dēmos President

• Steve Dubb, NPQ Senior Editor

Join us for a conversation about how local governments, in collaboration with schools, nonprofits, and community partners, are reimagining systems to promote economic mobility and educational success.

Drawing from emerging models, the conversation will highlight how the cities of Tulsa, Oklahoma and Orlando, Florida, in collaboration with community-based partners, are confronting intergenerational poverty, transforming neighborhoods, and driving cradle-to-career place-based efforts through coordinated systems of supports, opportunities, and data-informed decision-making.

To register for this hybrid event, please click here. The in-person option is available to those only with Harvard University IDs.

Panelists are as follows:

• Monroe Nichols - Mayor, City of Tulsa, Oklahoma

• Ashley Harris Philippsen - Executive Director, ImpactTulsa; Director, Mayor’s Office of Children, Youth and Families, city of Tulsa, Oklahoma; Cradle-to-Career Partnership Leader Fellow, The EdRedesign Lab at HGSE

• Abraham Morris - Children, Youth, and Families Division Manager, Orlando, Florida

• Rob Watson (Moderator) - Executive Director, The EdRedesign Lab; Lecturer on Education, Harvard Graduate School of Education; Faculty Affiliate, Bloomberg Center for Cities at Harvard University

Major cuts to foreign aid this year have created deep uncertainty for global health programs and their futures. GiveWell has responded by leveraging 18 years of experience in cost-effectiveness research and analysis to assess the impacts in real time and identify funding gaps where donors’ contributions can have exceptional impact.

Join us for a webinar on December 4th at noon to discuss the effects of recent cuts, how GiveWell is responding, and what we’re learning along the way—including our predictions and uncertainties about the future. Panelists working across malaria, HIV, health systems, family planning, and rapid response will answer questions selected live by the audience and share their latest insights from this pivotal year.

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March of Dimes will host a congressional briefing Wednesday, December 3, on the release of our 2025 Report Card, to raise the visibility of the report for Congressional staff, stakeholders, partners, and the public to offer policy options to improve maternal and infant health outcomes.

For the past 17 years, the March of Dimes Report Card has told the story of maternal and infant health in the United States through data, revealing both progress and persistent challenges. This year’s Report Card provides a clear view of where action is advancing and where opportunities remain.

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Join Maryland comptroller Brooke Lierman, Urban Institute president Sarah Rosen Wartell, and leading experts as we discuss how changemakers can get income-boosting state tax benefits into the hands of all eligible residents. Speakers will share where they see gaps between policy and practice, what has changed in 2025, and which outreach, community engagement, and tax filing supports may be most promising going forward.

This event, hosted by the Urban Institute in collaboration with the Comptroller of Maryland, will serve as a capstone to the Helping Maryland Connect Underserved Residents to Crucial State Tax Credits initiative, a research and policy project aimed at connecting underserved residents to Maryland’s largest income tax credits.

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Event Details:

• Tuesday, December 2, 2025, 12:30 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. ET
  Check-in and lunch at 12:00 p.m. ET

• Keynote Conversation: Brooke Lierman, Comptroller of Maryland and Sarah Rosen Wartell, President, Urban Institute (moderator)

Speakers:

• Aravind Boddupalli, Senior Research Associate, Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center 

• Simone Brody, Special Projects Fellow, New Practice Lab, New America 

• Luisa Godinez-Puig, Senior Research Associate, Urban Institute 

• Robin McKinney, Cofounder and CEO, CASH Campaign of Maryland 

On December 2-4, the Center for Universal Education (CUE) will host the annual Research and Policy Symposium on Gender Equality in and through Education. The event will open with a plenary discussion among the 2025 Echidna Global Scholars, who will share their research, which centers the voices, leadership, agency, and rights of marginalized girls and women across diverse contexts.

Panelists:

• Betty Akullo: 2025 Echidna Global Scholar - Global Economy and Development, Center for Universal Education

• Faith Nkala: 2025 Echidna Global Scholar - Global Economy and Development, Center for Universal Education

• Racheal Kalaba: 2025 Echidna Global Scholar - Global Economy and Development, Center for Universal Education

• Zaynab Gates: 2025 Echidna Global Scholar - Global Economy and Development, Center for Universal Education

To RSVP for this virtual event, please click here.

Join us to celebrate DOC NYC’s first ever collaboration! DOC NYC is partnering with Creatively Speaking, a program of the New School’s Institute on Race, Power & Political Economy to present HOME OF THE BRAVE, a powerful program of five documentary shorts exploring urgent social issues shaping America today.

From legal justice and life after incarceration to progressive education and compassionate healthcare, these stories of grassroot activism showcase individuals and communities working to create meaningful change.

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Address: Tishman Auditorium at The New School - 63 Fifth Ave at 14th Street

In a wave of rollbacks, at least 10 states have passed laws to restrict child labor protections in the last couple of years. Today, children as young as 13 are working grueling jobs that put their health, safety, and development at risk — in meatpacking plants, warehouses, and tobacco fields instead of schools. Migrant children especially are at risk of being exploited. Over the last several years, there have been numerous reports about children being seriously injured or killed working in incredibly dangerous conditions.

In this discussion — hosted by the Aspen Institute Economic Opportunities Program on November 19 — we’ll explore how we arrived at the current landscape of child labor; what it means in the current context; and how we can protect children moving forward and explore what policymakers, child advocates, and labor advocates can do to address weakening child protections.

Speakers: Yesenia Cuello (NC Field), Ron Estrada (Farmworker Justice), Reid Maki (National Consumers League), Jennifer Sherer (Economic Policy Institute), Charlie Wishman (AFL-CIO), Kristina Cooke (Reuters)

To rsvp for this webinar on November 19, from 2 to 3:30 pm, please click here.

Join the National Academy of Social Insurance and friends for a reception and programming to mark the 90th anniversary of Unemployment Insurance! Together, we'll reflect on the program's origins, its essential role in stabilizing the economy and supporting workers, and the opportunities ahead to strengthen UI for the next generation.

Speakers: Michele Evermore, Senior Fellow, National Academy of Social Insurance | Rachet West, Senior Fellow, The Century Foundation | Rebecca Dixon, President & CEO, National Employment Law Project | Amy Simon, Head, Labor & Workforce Solutions, LexisNexis Risk Solutions | Portia Wu, Maryland Secretary of Labor

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Address: National Press Club, 529 14th Street Northwest, Washington, DC 20045

Join us for a conversation led by Community Advocates Public Policy Institute Senior Fellow David Reimer as he discusses his recently released research report, “How a Work-Based Policy Package Can Reduce US Poverty.”

In this presentation, sponsored by Community Advocates Public Policy Institute’s Member Network, Reimer will explore how the policy package can greatly increase employment, earnings, and income, thus ensuring workers’ and retirees’ economic security and expanding the middle class. A Q&A will follow.

This discussion is free and all are welcome to attend in person or via Zoom. Registration is required at the link HERE.

Greater Milwaukee Foundation | 2153 N. Dr. MLK Jr Drive, #4000, Milwaukee, WI 53212

Baby bonds—publicly funded, race-conscious trust accounts for children—are gaining momentum as a powerful tool to help families build assets from birth and chart more self-determined, prosperous futures. Join the Asset Funders Network and The New School's Institute on Race, Power and Political Economy as we debut the release of Cradle to Capital: A Case for Philanthropy to Invest in Baby Bonds.

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Speakers:

• Joseph Antolin, President and CEO, Asset Funders Network

• Darrick Hamilton, Henry Cohen Professor of Economics and Urban Policy, The New School Institute on Race, Power, and Political Economy, AFL-CIO

• Megan Elkins, Program Officer, W.K. Kellogg Foundation

• Kate Reeves, Director, The Connecticut Project

Join us at Lost City Books as Tarriona “Tank” Ball, New Orleans-based slam poet and Grammy-winning recording artist, as she discusses her book, The Thing About Falling.

After getting “vulnerable AF” on her 2021 book tour, Tank realized she was truly ready to move on from her first love. In The Thing About Falling, she writes about that experience as well as what followed—a period of shallow comfort, followed by a much deeper transformation.

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Lost City Books | 2467 18th Street NW, Washington, DC 20009

In the Aspen Institute’s Writing an Op-Ed instructional webinar, participants will learn how to draft an op-ed — or any kind of opinion piece, whether in print or digital media — in order to advance a broader goal of policy change. An effective op-ed requires having a clear point, an understanding of your audience, and the unique voice of the writer. This webinar will go into the basics for achieving all of those points, as well as discuss strategies for pitching an op-ed to media stakeholders to reach the audiences that matter most for impacting policy.

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October 15, 2025 | 12pm - 1pm EST

Join the Aspen Institute’s webinar to learn the basics of the policy process. This program will teach you how to think about policy expansively, and introduce you to a framework for understanding how to change policy on the issues you care about. It also gives an overview of the six steps of policy impact.

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October 8, 2025 | 2pm - 3pm EST

To help policymakers and practitioners better understand the challenges and opportunities for young adults, the Urban Institute’s Early Life Wealth Building Learning Community is inviting researchers, implementation partners, and experts from existing programs to come together.

The event will focus on understanding the financial health and wealth of young adults in America. We will uplift research across Urban related to young adults’ financial health and well-being, including intergenerational wealth transfers, debt, barriers to wealth building, and long-term projections for national changes in household wealth.

Check-in begins at 1:30 p.m. A networking reception will follow the program, concluding at 5:00 p.m.

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Urban Institute (500 L’Enfant Plaza SW, Washington, DC, 20024)

Governments work for the people, so it’s important for government officials to hear from ordinary citizens what we think about what they are doing. Yet most of us don’t know how to effectively share our opinions with governments.

Join the Aspen Policy Academy from the Aspen Institute to learn how to tell government actors across all branches of government what you think about their ideas. This program will teach you broad principles for communicating to policymakers, as well as specific tips for sharing your opinions with Congress, executive branch officials, and even the courts.

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September 24, 2025 | 12pm - 1pm EST

Join us at the David C. Driskell Center for the opening reception of the “Solace & Sisterhood” exhibition which brings the powerful dynamic of sisterhood to the forefront by showcasing the work of three contemporary Black female artists: Lavett Ballard, Amber Robles-Gordon, and Evita Tezeno. Guest curated by Dr. Lauren Davidson, this show explores the depth of Black sisterhood, highlighting the strength, resilience, and bond that unite these women.

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The David C. Driskell Center | 4095 Union Lane #1214 College Park, MD 20742

Thursday, September 11 | 3pm - 6pm

The Trump administration’s cruel assaults against immigration and the rule of law have been turbocharged by congressional Republicans’ recently passed reconciliation bill—the One Big Beautiful Bill Act—gifting the administration dramatically increased funding to further weaponize their harmful immigration agenda.

Join CAP for a timely conversation with Reps. Veronica Escobar (D-TX), Tom Suozzi (D-NY), Teresa Leger Fernández (D-NM) and CAP President and CEO Neera Tanden on solutions to actually fix our immigration system and strengthen border security.

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Event Details:

Center for American Progress (1333 H Street NW, Washington, DC 20005)

9:30am - 9:35am: Opening remarks by Debu Gandhi, Senior Director

9:35am - 10:30am: Panel Discussion with Neera Tanden, President and CEO, and Reps. Escobar, Suozzi, and Fernández.