A project by Acumen America

Welcome.

Where to Next examines the collective and systemic problems in America and puts a spotlight on the brightest individuals and companies working to solve them. We are building an engaged community and elevating voices that are each asking the same question: Where to next?

We can’t go back to the old way of doing things, so we are digging deep and discussing some of our country’s thorniest issues with an eye to highlighting very real and scalable solutions.

Read more on why we launched Where to Next. 

Where to Next examines the collective and systemic problems in America and puts a spotlight on the brightest individuals and companies working to solve them. We are building an engaged community and elevating voices that are each asking the same question: Where to next? We can’t go back to the old way of doing things, so we are digging deep and discussing some of our country’s thorniest issues with an eye to highlighting very real and scalable solutions. Read more on why we launched Where to Next. 

An examination of why low and middle-income women continue to struggle, the fight for fair and equitable reproductive health, the pay gap, and where we can go from here to build a better future for women, and, subsequently, for all Americans.

“Right now so many women are faced with challenges, barriers, and restrictions,” - Jaime Gloshay, Native Women Lead
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Reproductive Justice

While the impacts of the Supreme Court decision will be felt for decades to come, we believe there is a huge opportunity for innovators to help mitigate the impact of the court’s ruling—and design and build a better future.

"Our commitment is to make sure that this is a grassroots effort.” - Monica Simpson, SisterSong
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Future for
Workers

Rather than focus on the future of work, we’re going to reimagine a future for workers. We’ll envision how to build an equitable and human-centered economy that supports and fosters a new generation of workers.

"We need to give workers a voice—and listen to them" - Kathlee St. Louis Caliento, Cara Collective
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Wealth Gap

Wealth is more than just assets. It’s opportunity. It’s secure housing. It’s access to food, transportation, and jobs. And it’s impacted by race, gender, geography, and more. Here, we look at why the wealth gap is widening and what we can do to reverse that reality.

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"Our current capitalist system is not working for low-income and middle-income people." - Samir Goel, Esusu
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Racial Equity
& Health

An exploration of the systemic issues lying at the intersection of racial equity and health—and the ways we can improve health outcomes for underserved communities through innovation, entrepreneurship, and strategic investments.

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"In America, your zip code is often times an indicator of your health." - Rishi Manchanda, Health Begins
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OTHER VOICES

“Whatever it is, coronavirus has made the mighty kneel and brought the world to a halt like nothing else could. Our minds are still racing back and forth, longing for a return to “normality”, trying to stitch our future to our past and refusing to acknowledge the rupture. But the rupture exists. And in the midst of this terrible despair, it offers us a chance to rethink the doomsday machine we have built for ourselves. Nothing could be worse than a return to normality. Historically, pandemics have forced humans to break with the past and imagine their world anew. This one is no different. It is a portal, a gateway between one world and the next. We can choose to walk through it, dragging the carcasses of our prejudice and hatred, our avarice, our data banks and dead ideas, our dead rivers and smoky skies behind us. Or we can walk through lightly, with little luggage, ready to imagine another world. And ready to fight for it. ” Arundhati Roy

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