Leap Fund: Selected Press Mentions and Collaborations

• Benefits Cliffs: Effects on Workers and the Role of Employers, Mathieu Despard, U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation, September 2022

• Work disincentives hit the near-poor hardest. Why and what to do about it, Ed Dolan, Niskanen Center, May 2022

• Why N.Y. needs a universal child-care plan, Jaime-Jin Lewis & Karen Schoellkopf (Op-Ed), Daily News, March 2022

• NYCEDC and Company Ventures Announce First Cohort of The City Fellowship, February 2022

• Guaranteed Income & Benefits Protection, The Bridge Project, 2022 [video, 4:54]

• 10 startups strengthening New York City’s comeback, Michael Samuelian, Google Blog, Dec 2021

• What’s a “benefits cliff,” anyway?, Lela Nargi, The Counter, Dec 2021

• The ‘Benefits Cliff’ Discourages People From Making More Money, Peter Coy, The New York Times, Nov 2021

• Ending Hunger in America: Examining the Reality of Benefit Cliffs, House Committee on Rules Roundtable (Hearing), October 2021 [links to video, 1:47:00 and text]

• Financial Solutions Lab 2021 Accelerator Cohort to Improve Financial Resilience and Growth for Underserved Communities in Wake of Pandemic and Beyond, GlobeNewswire, May 2021

• Supporting Partnerships to Advance Worker and Student Financial Health, Financial Solutions Lab, September 2020

• 3 inspiring organizations that are actually making the world a better place for workers, Fast Company, July 2020

• Introducing the Newest Sterling Fellows, Robert Sterling Clark Foundation, November 2019

• Meet Leap Fund, Robin Hood Foundation, Heroes Publication, 2019