Better Family Life has worked with youth in the St. Louis community in various sports – tennis, basketball and soccer. Last year, in the middle of the pandemic, they added golf. Now, 20 to 25 kids, ages 8 to 17, participate on a junior PGA team, which has seasons in the summer and the fall.

In February, just two weeks after Kamala Harris was sworn in as the first female vice president, a portrait of her stood on display near the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. The installation, created by Simon Berger, used broken glass as a medium. It was an homage to the latest shattering of the "glass ceiling." 

The Tableau Fellows, a cohort chosen from among NeighborWorks America's network organizations, work to tell new stories about their nonprofits through the information they collect, with the help of mentors, using Tableau, which helps organi

Leslie Reid was born into a family of two: It was her and her mother, alone in New York, in need of better prospects. Reid spent time in foster care while her mother went to find them a home. Her family grew exponentially when she rejoined her mother, who had found work in Boston with a community of social workers. They'd started an organization for homeless youth, Reid says, and they lived together and worked together, providing shelter and services. 

A Puerto Rico leadership initiative, sponsored by NeighborWorks America and its partners, is helping leaders tap into larger networks of support to help them in their work managing nonprofits and supporting residents on the island.

College freshman Vanesa Medrano has a vision to inspire the youth in her Near Northside community in Houston, Texas. Through Millennialz Youth Fest, the community organization she founded with friends, she motivates young people to give back to the community, get involved and make their voices heard. 

Girls and teens used to meet in Sharon Curry's living room. First there were eight. Then 12. Then 30, and Curry's house was bursting at the seams with girls meeting for discussions and mentoring as part of Girls to Teens to Women.
 
"I took it to the backyard, then to the park," says Curry, who lives in Massachusetts. Today, some of these girls have gone on to become lawyers. Some have attended and finished college. Some are mothers. Some run day care centers. "These girls, they are all over Boston; they all achieved their goals."
 

"It's about people," says Wayne Meyer, chief executive officer of New Jersey Community Capital. That's one reason he serves as mentor for the Puerto Rico Nonprofit Leadership Development Initiative.