Scaling Impact: "In in my capacity at Greenlight, it's, you know, helping scale a nationwide network that is hopefully gonna impact 10% of children and families living in poverty across eventually 30 cities plus across the United States."

Reversing the Scale: "We kinda thought about it from the reverse side, not the headquarters point of view, but from a city's point of view, starting with what do cities need that they don't have? What does local school systems need that they don't have in terms of programming? What does a local community need that it doesn't have? What do residents need that they don't have. What are the metrics that residents wanna change in their city? And then thinking about Once once you've set up an entity, we call it a green light to help a community sort of decide that, Then we systematically say, okay. For this issue, then if this community really wants change with an added piece of the puzzle or an added fabric that's missing, Now let's go find something that's worked in multiple cities and let's pull it in. So we've we've sort of envisioned Replication or scale as something that gets pulled from from the the the outside spokes in a network, Not that it's driven from a national hub. And I think that's a really important thing because it's really people that are Experiencing poverty or navigating poverty in cities that should be deciding for themselves what's missing as opposed to, you know, somebody somewhere else deciding that."

Scaling Impact: "We saw something that was surprising to us, which was the metrics around change and scale and leverage of state and federal dollars And real outcome change quantitatively was even better, in our 1st 3 years in Philadelphia in the Bay Area than it had been In our 1st 5 years in Boston"

Greenlight's Metric Oriented Culture: "So the first, which is really fundamental, is when we're doing our...the first thing we're looking for is what's a metric that's broken in Atlanta?"

Inner Explorer's Roadmap for Expansion: "What's gonna be year 1, year 2, year 3, year 4, year 5? Ultimately, what's gonna look like After year 10, which is, you know, hopefully, that it's gonna be a cash flow breakeven, organization, You know, paid for by the public school systems in aggregate, reaching, you know, a 100,000 plus children and families a year and changing these kinds of outcomes And maybe even getting ready to expand further across the state of Georgia to other school systems, We we develop a whole road map. How do you go from just bringing it and just serving 20,000 kids in the Clayton County Public school system the 1st year and us funding a little bit of the founding deficit, how do you go from year 1 to year 10."

Community Impact: "We've done something rather dynamic around that. In Boston, for instance, by bringing care messaging to Boston, we have done things around returning citizens and helping dramatically change prison recidivism rates and helping change access to credit and access to benefits for returning citizens."

Collaborative Learning and Knowledge Sharing: "And kind of a weekly conference call about how things are going and what we're learning. But as an executive director, let's say the ED of Greenlight Kansas City is running her cycle looking at certain issues can call upon all the data resident in our data banks, As well as our national team to which supports all our city teams, as well as peers who've brought similar things to cities to say, all right, you brought Inner Explorer to Atlanta in partnership with the public school system. What did you learn from that that you wish you did better? If you could wave a magic wand because And then over a 4 year period, you got such and such a footprint expanding from this school system, that school system, that school system, but you're still not statewide yet. If we do this in Kansas City, how could we get it to spread faster throughout the school systems, and how could we get it statewide faster? And then we go and use that learning in Kansas City. And then let's say we're looking at a similar issue in Charlotte. Well, how do we learn from both what we did in Atlanta and what we did in Kansas City to do it even better in Charlotte? And that's the way this learning happens."

Expanding Impact through National and Local Funding: "With this national support, in the next 5 years, we'll add another 5 to 6 cities to the network, which eventually is gonna impact, You know, half a 1000000 to a 1000000 children and families in those cities, and that's what our national donors are getting."

Greenlight's Vision of Economic and Social Mobility: "With all the things Greenlight is doing to tear down barriers and change outcomes, you know, hopefully, that metric will be way different. There'll be way more economic and social mobility because of these gaps we will have filled in communities across the country."

Taking the First Step: "The biggest thing is I just think there are so many people out there that wanna have impact, But they don't know where to take the 1st step or how to take the 1st step."