Thank you to our sponsors
Cessilye Smith
A Black-led nonprofit that offers culturally informed prenatal and postnatal care. Abide offers low-cost access to healthcare with the goal of reducing infant and maternal mortality among Black, Indigenous and People of Color (BIPOC) folk.
Courtney Hamilton
Creates access to STEM education in lower-income communities in North Texas, with a goal of ensuring that students in minority communities have a chance to future proof their own lives.
Prinscilla Moore
A nonprofit offering anti-bias-based, judgment-free education and postpartum support to mothers in communities that traditionally receive the lowest quality of care. Delighted to Doula seeks to reduce maternal mortality rates and increase the number of mothers who have access to healthcare.
Robin Head
A national nonprofit that transitions individuals and families out of homelessness to economic self-sufficiency. Entryway DFW provides full-time employment, housing and career training opportunities in partnership with the real estate industry.
Roy Scott
A platform that seamlessly integrates hip-hop culture, literacy and social-emotional learning to elevate student learning environments. Healthy Hip Hop creates classroom-friendly hip hop music that schools use to engage students in new and exciting ways.
Courtney Hamilton
Creates access to STEM education in lower-income communities in North Texas, with a goal of ensuring that students in minority communities have a chance to future proof their own lives.
Robin Head
A national nonprofit that transitions individuals and families out of homelessness to economic self-sufficiency. EntryWay provides full-time employment, housing and career training opportunities in partnership with the real estate industry.
Prinscilla Moore
A nonprofit offering anti-bias-based, judgment-free education and postpartum support to mothers in communities that traditionally receive the lowest quality of care. Delighted to Doula seeks to reduce maternal mortality rates and increase the number of mothers who have access to healthcare.
Roy Scott
A platform that seamlessly integrates hip-hop culture, literacy and social-emotional learning to elevate student learning environments. Healthy Hip Hop creates classroom-friendly hip hop music that schools use to engage students in new and exciting ways.
Cessilye Smith
A Black-led nonprofit that offers culturally informed prenatal and postnatal care. Abide offers low-cost access to healthcare with the goal of reducing infant and maternal mortality among Black, Indigenous and People of Color (BIPOC) folk.
Social innovation:
Fuel for our community wide goals
What is Social Innovation?
Social innovation is the practice of finding new and innovative solutions for long-standing community problems that are more effective, efficient, sustainable or just than current solutions.
Who competes in The Pitch?
Through programs like our Social Innovation Accelerator, we amplify the work of local social entrepreneurs and implement creative, strategic solutions to longstanding community challenges. Every spring, we celebrate the power of social innovation at The Pitch, where finalists from the latest Accelerator class share their innovative solutions for improving access to education, income and health in our community.
Why social innovation?
Social innovation is one technique driving us toward our Aspire United 2030 community goals, which include:
- Increase by 50% the number of local students reading on grade level by third grade
- Increase by 20% the number of young adults earning a living wage, adding nearly $800M in wages per year to the North Texas economy
- Increase to 96% the percentage of our neighbors with access to affordable health care insurance