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2023 Keeping Mentoring Connections in a Socially Distanced World: Findings from a Youth-Engaged Study of Virtually Adapted Mentoring Practices in Response to COVID-19

In partnership with MENTOR Maryland|DC and MENTOR Memphis, Equivolve’s research uncovers ways to best serve youth, especially youth of color, both now and after the pandemic.

2022 Black Voices, Black Spaces: The Power of Black Innovation

Equivolve and Echoing Green explore the possibilities for increased impact in the social innovation field through reflections on their investment in U.S.-based Black social innovators over the last decade.

2022 Roadmap Academy Impact Analysis

Cities United engaged Equivolve to capture the impact of its first Roadmap Academy cohort - a network of 18 cities working to address committed to reducing the epidemic of homicides and shootings among young Black men and boys through a comprehensive public health approach.

2022 Strategic plan: mentor nebraska

MENTOR Nebraska engaged Equivolve to design and lead a data-informed strategic planning process to support mentoring across Nebraska, focusing on programming, statewide expansion, youth voice, and policy and advocacy.

2022 Powerful & Proximate: Fueling the dreams of grassroots organizations through fiscal sponsorship

Commissioned by the Meyer Foundation, this report presents the tremendous opportunity to transform fiscal sponsorship to activate grassroots organizations and the abundant community-based power they hold.

2021 evaluation: Lessons for Advancing Postsecondary Outcomes with Community & State Partners

This report serves as a guide to states as they build their postsecondary networks or are trying to expand postsecondary efforts.

2021 healthcare ready: Equity framework

In fall 2020, HcR engaged Equivolve to assess and articulate the current state of equity within the organization’s programs and practices and to set a vision for implementation to institutionalize and further its practice of equity across the organization.

2020 developmental evaluation: improving postsecondary outcomes

The Lumina Foundation partnered with Equivolve to document the processes, successes, and challenges of regional efforts in Alabama and Indiana to improve postsecondary attainment by leverage cross-sector partnerships to drive results in their specific geographies.

2020 Baltimore City Schools report: mentoring report

In fall 2019, MENTOR Maryland | DC surveyed Baltimore City Schools, with Equivolve’s support, to understand available mentoring programs, the design of those programs, existing partnerships, tools and best practices.

2018 UPHOLDING THE COVENANT: STATE OF MENTORING IN MARYLAND

Equivolve provided Maryland MENTOR with an analysis of the mentoring landscape across the state and actionable recommendations for its own work and that of foundations, schools, and mentoring providers.

2021 Strategic plan: Growing the convenant

MENTOR Maryland | DC engaged Equivolve to design and lead a strategic planning process to clarify their goals and priorities for supporting mentoring across Maryland as well as consider a formal expansion into DC.

2021 YOUNG MEN UNITEd: PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT

In summer 2021, Equivolve facilitated a stakeholder engagement and program design process for United Way of Central Maryland to prepare for the launch of Young Men United -- an equity-driven initiative to help close education and earning gaps.

2019 campaign for black male achievement analysis

In summer of 2019, CBMA engaged Equivolve to broaden understanding of its organizational network members and the current state of those network members’ Black male achievement work through a two-part series.

2018 IMPACT REPORT: A DECADE OF RISK, URGENCY AND MOMENTUM

Equivolve co-authored CBMA's 10-Year Impact Report, nearly five years after President Obama's My Brother's Keeper Initiative launched, capturing the relevance and impact of the boys and men of color field.

2021 power beyond measure: Reshaping the Research and Evaluation Landscape for Boys and Men of Color

This research agenda offers strategies for researchers, evaluators, and funders to contribute to people of color thriving in their lives, families, and communities.

2020 Regional workforce council profile

The Alabama Commission on Higher Education partnered with Equivolve to understand the differences across Alabama's seven workforce regions and opportunities to expand place-based strategies that serve the education and workforce needs of its communities.

2018 YOUNG, GIFTED AND UNDERFUNDEd: STRENGTHENING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PHILANTHROPY AND YOUTH-LED MOVEMENTS

Equivolve partnered with Open Society Institute-Baltimore to examine how philanthropy could better support local, grassroots, youth-led efforts.