Nine out of ten people can't tell you what a community foundation does—yet these institutions have been quietly holding communities together for over a century. Peter Panepento has spent the last decade trying to solve what might be the most counterintuitive problem in philanthropy: how do you build a national brand for 900 organizations that each insist on being completely different?

When a city loses its paper, what fills the silence? In Baltimore, Lisa Snowden and the Baltimore Beat have found a way to turn local news into the heartbeat of community life.

Everyone says journalism is broken. Michael Bolden thinks the story is more complicated—and that the next generation of reporters may be the ones to save it.

Rich Harwood has spent thirty years in America's most forgotten places and discovered something that could save democracy—but it's not happening where you think it is. After another act of political violence rocks the nation, Carrie Fox sits down with the man who's proven that the path forward isn't through our broken politics, but through rebuilding the invisible infrastructure of how we actually live together.

In this season’s first episode, Carrie Fox sits down with Mike Pope and Elisa Pupko as they trade stability in Brooklyn for a yearlong adventure around the globe with their two children. Their leap is less about travel and more about what it means to embrace the sacred space between goodbye and hello.

Season 11 of Mission Forward explores the power of transitions—hellos, goodbyes, and the space between. Carrie Fox elevates stories of people who’ve leapt before they were ready, stayed when the world told them to move, and discovered the courage that comes from navigating change with clarity and care.