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Launching our youth toward a better future.

Lever Fund is a philanthropic non-profit focused on making the National Capital Region economically just by pooling and investing donor funds in programs that propel youth from low-income families toward their first well-paying job. Join us today in our fight to break intergenerational poverty.

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  • Data Key to Fulfilling Sustainable Development Goals on Local Level says Lever Fund’s Chairwoman Connie K. N. Chang

    The United Nations Sustainable Development Goal #16, promoting peace, justice and sustainable development, is increasingly under threat internationally and locally as Russia’s unprovoked war on Ukraine looms large and
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    4 months 2 weeks ago
  • Lever Fund Supports Young Peoples’ STEM Careers in the Nation’s Capital

    $20,000 donation for youth workforce development designed to direct funding to communities that have experienced decades of underinvestment
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    1 year 7 months ago
  • Pushing Philanthropy Out of Its Comfort Zone

    Some believe that philanthropy can serve as risk capital, funding needle-moving and innovative ideas and projects around economic mobility.
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    1 year 11 months ago
  • Lever Fund Joins 400 Organizations to Unite in a Worldwide Vigil to Remember the Victims of the Atlanta Shooting

    Proud to Support #StopAsianHate National Day of Action and Healing 
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    1 year 11 months ago
  • Lever Fund Statement on Fighting Violence and Racism against Asian Americans

    We are appalled and deeply distressed by the rise of hate crimes and targeted violence against the Asian American and Pacific Islander community in the United States, where this week we have seen a horrifying mass sho
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    2 years ago
  • Profiles in Courage: Leading Through Crisis

    Welcome to our inaugural blog post in Profiles in Courage: Leading Through Crisis. A Thought Leadership Series curated by The Lever Fund.
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    2 years 4 months ago
  • Showing up and Taking Action

    The massive protests across our cities over the past week, the pandemic that looms before us still, and the economic uncertainty experienced by so many have shaken us to our very core.  
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    2 years 9 months ago
  • Everything Is Better in Community

    At Lever Fund, we are proud to be part of a national family of incredibly capable poverty-fighting organizations.
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    3 years ago
  • A Fight That We Can Win

    “Overcoming poverty is not a gesture of charity. It is an act of justice. It is the protection of a fundamental human right, the right to dignity and a decent life.”
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    3 years 3 months ago
  • Five Questions for Bryce Jacobs

    Why does BUILD teach entrepreneurship?
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    4 years 4 months ago
  • Five Questions for Joy King-Pike

    What excites you about leading Per Scholas in our region?
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    4 years 4 months ago
  • Five Questions for Mioshi Moses

    What kind of high school student does Genesys Works attract?
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    4 years 5 months ago
  • Remembering Ann Marie

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    4 years 6 months ago
  • Five Questions for Chike Aguh

    Chike Aguh (Chee-Kay Ah-Goo), Principal at Inncuvate, joined the Lever Fund board last month. Here, he discusses his perspective on our work.
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    4 years 8 months ago
  • Lever Fund Investment in Per Scholas

    Organization: Per ScholasProgram: IT Support Training
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    4 years 8 months ago
  • Five Questions for Tim Lee

    On July 9, the board unanimously elected Tim Lee as chair. Here, he shares his vision and passion for our work.
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    4 years 8 months ago
  • Five Questions for Connie Chang

    Lever Fund board member Connie K. N.
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    4 years 9 months ago
  • Five Questions for Mark Swartz

    The Board of Directors recently named you Managing Director. What does that mean?
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    4 years 10 months ago
  • Suiting Up

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    5 years 3 months ago
  • Nathaniel Pearlman on Giving Back

    We Can’t Solve All Inequality, But We Can Do Something.
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    5 years 3 months ago
  • Founder and Board member Ann Marie Habershaw reflects on her giving.

    Invest Your Philanthropy Locally
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    5 years 3 months ago
  • Impact Report: Family Services, Inc.

    Family Services Inc.’s Keys to Success Program helps teen mothers (who are still in school) and their young children, who participate in the Early Head Start program that focuses on achieving positive maternal and chi
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    5 years 7 months ago
  • Impact Report: Genesys Works

    Genesys Works provides intensive training to high school students and connects them to paid information technology internships. 
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    5 years 7 months ago
  • Video: Highlights from the May 2017 Jobs of Tomorrow Launch

    A 90-minute discussion, boiled down to 4 minutes. Thank you to everyone who attended, listened, and took part.
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    5 years 8 months ago
  • Dereck's Green Ambitions

    We met with Dereck the day after he took the certification exam for the National Green Infrastructure Program. He was feeling pretty confident.
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    5 years 9 months ago
  • Matt Clyne on Connecting Students to the Jobs of the Future

    Marsean and Jerell are so bright and imaginative that when I met them I wished I could offer them both jobs on the spot.
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    5 years 11 months ago
  • Jobs of Tomorrow

    We're proud to announce an initiative to support high-performing nonprofits that prepare low-income students and adults for 21st-century employment. Our goal for Jobs of Tomorrow: investing a half million dollars in high-performing organizations in D.C., suburban Maryland, and northern Virginia that equip low-income people in our region with the skills to secure jobs with a future.
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    5 years 11 months ago
  • The Lever Fund Launches Its Innovative DMV Investment Strategy

    Today, as the Greater Washington DC region unites to kick off the season of giving, the Lever Fund announces its first investments in three high-performance, high-impact nonprofit organizations in Maryland, Virginia, and the District of Columbia. All three groups are providing life-changing educational and job opportunities for our low-income DMV neighbors, and reflect the Lever Fund’s ambitious and innovative metrics-oriented approach to fighting poverty.
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    6 years 4 months ago

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