Financial health should be a right. So we build it.
The affordability crisis is a mobility crisis. We use data and technology to fix the systemic barriers crushing the financial health of young adults and vulnerable communities.
We don't just study problems. We fix them.
Research
We identify the systemic barriers — housing, healthcare, debt, predatory lending — blocking young adults' economic mobility. Our partnerships with Google Health and academic institutions create the evidence base policymakers need to act.
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We equip the next generation to climb: reaching students before student loans, before credit cards, before the system gets them. Our programs span income levels, from suburbs to inner-city schools.
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Education alone won't open the ladder. Our global ambassador network drives policy change on structural barriers — housing affordability, predatory lending, healthcare costs — no amount of budgeting advice can solve.
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Published in Nature. Used worldwide.
Our peer-reviewed partnership with Google Health produced open-source datasets now used by research institutions, governments, and global health organizations — the evidence base decision-makers need to build equitable financial and health systems.
Build the ladder, not just the safety net.
Economic mobility shouldn't depend on luck or your zip code. Help us build a system that doesn't fail people.
Everything we build is open source and free — the Housing Affordability and Family Planning calculators, the Financial Health Barometer, and all our code on GitHub.