Together, we launched the Student Action Network for Equity, concluded our biggest Action Accelerator to date (in Ohio), and continued to ensure, through our ARPA Action Accelerator, that communities were involved in setting priorities for federal relief spending. Read here →

These organizations in the third phase of Seek Common Ground’s ARPA Action Accelerator set out to build bridges and bust silos across agencies to ensure the promise of the influx of funding could be fulfilled.

Since its launch in January of this year, Seek Common Ground’s (SCG) Student Action Network for Equity (SANE) has connected students from Connecticut to California and distributed over $100,000 of funding to student- and intergenerationally-led groups along the way.

Right now, it can be challenging to find reasons to celebrate. The pandemic, classroom censorship bills, and raging culture wars are dispiriting. Bright spots can seem dim. Yet there are many, and they can be found by looking within our own communities.