An Opportunity to Invest in Your Child: Understanding Trump Accounts

Building Long-Term Financial Security for Millions of Children: Tax-Advantaged Investment Accounts Coming in 2026 Beginning in 2026, a new and innovative program known as Trump Accounts will launch with the goal of building long-term financial security for millions of children across the United States. This initiative creates tax-advantaged investment accounts available to all U.S. citizens […]

Rural AmeriCorps: Building Communities from the Inside Out 

— Dreama Gentry, President and CEO, Partners for Rural Impact  AmeriCorps is often framed as an urban program, where young people travel to unfamiliar cities to serve and strengthen those urban places. As a result, the current conversation about defunding AmeriCorps centers on the devastating impact that cutting AmeriCorps programs would have in urban places. […]

Turning the Page on Our Literacy Crisis Will Require All of Us

Editor’s Note: This blog post is co-authored by Dr. Felicia Cumings Smith, President & CEO of the National Center for Family Learning, and Dreama Gentry, Chief Executive Officer of Partners for Rural Impact. Both are native Kentuckians with decades of experience leading transformative education and literacy initiatives. In George Ella Lyon’s children’s book Come a […]