Program for Formerly Incarcerated People

We support fair-chance hiring policies, and believe that a history of convictions shouldn’t disqualify someone from employment. But what does that look like in practice? In creating a professional development program for graduates of the Bard Prison Initiative, we found some answers.

What’s your “American Dream Score”?

If you work hard and play by the rules, then you should be able to get ahead—at least according to the fabled American Dream. Now, a new tool gives us a way to examine the many factors that have helped or hindered us, and to spark honest conversations about the role of inequality and opportunity in our lives.

The new rules for our faster, tech-driven future

In their eye-opening new book Whiplash: How to Survive Our Faster Future, Joi Ito and Jeff Howe lay out a set of clear principles for navigating our age of rapid technological change—and making sure we don’t make inequality worse in the process.