Building Purposeful Pathways

Our Approach

The Pathways Impact Fund equips regional intermediaries to scale purposeful pathways — connecting students to good jobs and economic mobility.

Expanding the future of purposeful pathways.

Every student deserves a purposeful pathway: high-quality advising, accelerated coursework and career-connected learning that cultivates student agency and opens doors to good jobs and economic mobility.

The Pathways Impact Fund accelerates that vision by investing in regional intermediaries, fostering collaborative learning across the field, and building the resources and shared knowledge the field needs to scale purposeful pathways for all students.

How the Pathways Impact Fund Leads Change

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Expand and Align Investment

The Pathways Impact Fund aims to award more than $25 million in grants to advanced regional intermediary organizations — including nonprofits, workforce boards, colleges and chambers of commerce — that are ready to scale purposeful pathways connecting education and careers.

By streamlining philanthropic investment, the Fund helps channel more resources to the regional leaders best positioned to expand opportunity for students.

Explore investment in the Pathways Impact Fund

Foster Collaborative Learning

The Pathways Impact Fund unites national leaders, regional intermediaries and cross-sector partners around a shared framework for purposeful pathways, so every region is building toward the same vision. 

Through the Pathways Impact Collaborative, regions learn from each other, share what works and move faster toward scale.

Learn about the Pathways Impact Collaborative

Strengthen Intermediary Capacity

Regional intermediaries are the backbone of lasting change. They play a critical role in connecting schools, postsecondary institutions, employers and workforce systems.

The Pathways Impact Fund builds intermediary capacity to strengthen programs and align data systems, governance, policy and funding structures, so regions can scale what works and sustain it over time.

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