Beyond 12 is designing and launching a Gen-AI-powered college success coach to serve millions of historically underserved college students annually. To reduce the college degree divide between students in the bottom income quartile and their wealthier peers, Beyond 12 is developing a personalized, evidence-based, and culturally inclusive GenAI-powered Coach to provide success coaching at scale to college students from underresourced communities. Using AI, Beyond 12 is scaling their proven coaching model to ensure all historically underserved college students have the opportunity to earn post-secondary degrees that allow them to break cycles of poverty and lead choice-filled lives.

Paloma’s app enables marginalized families to build a habit of tutoring their kids for 15 daily minutes. This transforms student learning outcomes and family efficacy. Research shows families—not schools—primarily determine academic outcomes. Nonetheless, districts have historically sidestepped families and focused narrowly on classrooms (where kids spend <13% waking hours). Paloma helps Title I districts dramatically accelerate student learning by unleashing parents’ untapped teaching potential. By helping parents tutor their kids daily, Paloma unlocks a world of instructional time that otherwise lays dormant in every school community. As one superintendent put it, “Paloma awakens the sleeping giant of parents as tutors.”

Teaching Lab and its partners, Coursemojo and Magpie, will use AI-powered tutoring and curriculum-aligned teacher tools to dramatically improve student literacy outcomes, increase teacher effectiveness, and disrupt generational poverty. Learning to read is one of the most powerful anti-poverty tools. AI solutions, built based on the Science of Reading and high-quality curriculum, hold great promise to improve student literacy outcomes. The team’s transformational approach includes: 1) Magpie’s AI-enhanced First Foundations to build all literacy subskills; 2) Coursemojo’s AI-powered assistant teacher to build comprehension and writing skills; and 3) Teaching Lab’s coaching and professional learning to ensure teachers and product designers effectively implement for impact.

CodePath will use AI to personalize learning content to enable all students – regardless of background or university – to thrive in computer science programs. This solution transforms industry-oriented tech education for underrepresented college students. Today, CodePath’s proprietary learning management platform manages course logistics and allows instructors to choose content modules appropriate for their students. CodePath is designing context-aware AI tutors to support students’ personalized learning progression. The AI Tutor will incorporate course content and continuous evaluations of students to provide relevant, personalized support. This enables a wider range of students to master curriculum and prepare for upwardly-mobile tech careers.

FutureFit AI and the Chinese-American Planning Council will offer an AI-powered one-stop solution that centralizes wraparound services and better connects jobseekers to training and employment. The comprehensive AI-powered workforce development platform will help the Chinese-American Planning Council to more effectively connect job seekers to resources, training and employment while streamlining staff workflows. By better integrating important elmeents of a fragmented ecosystem, FutureFitAI can ensure that more people obtain high-quality training and jobs that lift them into family-supporting wages.

UnlockEd leverages AI to empower justice-involved individuals with transformative education and workforce readiness, breaking cycles of poverty and incarceration. By integrating AI-driven tutoring and learner guidance, the solution equips participants with essential skills and credentials, fostering economic mobility and reducing recidivism. UnlockEd’s scalable platform, developed in collaboration with correctional facilities and educational partners, ensures ethical AI use and meaningful community engagement, paving the way for broad societal impact and sustainable reentry outcomes.