In the spirit of Benjamin Franklin’s mutual-improvement club, Ben Franklin Circles gives anyone anywhere the tools to convene their own “junto” and spark discussions about virtue, ethics, leadership, and community in the 21st century to improve ourselves and the world around us.

The unique Women inPower Fellowship program provides senior-level women across professional sectors the resources needed to advance to the top levels of leadership in their fields. The program is now scaling to cities around the world through a chapter program.

CultureSwap, facilitated annually by 92nd Street Y in NYC, matches participants across the arts and cultural sector with peers at other institutions. The focus is simple: spend a day at a peer’s workplace, sharing insights and best practices, and brainstorming ways to tackle challenges both inside their institution and in the arts sector as a whole. The program is now scaling to cities around the world.

Founded by 92Y in 2012 and incubated in its Belfer Center for Innovation & Social Impact, #GivingTuesday has grown into a groundbreaking global generosity movement. GivingTuesday, now its own organization, unleashes the power of people and organizations to transform their communities and the world on the Tuesday after Thanksgiving, and every day, in whatever way is meaningful for them: with donations, by volunteering, through acts of kindness and connection, or advocacy.

7 Days of Genius is a global festival of creativity to advance the common good. For one week, communities around the world come together to create and celebrate new genius solutions to some of the world’s most pressing social issues.

Presented in partnership with Mashable, the United Nations Foundation and the UN Development Programme, the Social Good Summit is a conference that brings together leaders, philanthropists, activists and entrepreneurs from around the globe to explore how we can use innovations in media and technology to make the world a better place by the year 2030.

For 16 years, 92Y has run the Ford Motor Company International Fellowship for a diverse group of successful global social entrepreneurs. Beginning in 2018, the Ford Motor Company Fellowship will convene nonprofit and social change leaders from one region outside the US (Brazil in 2018 and 2019) in an innovative leadership-training and skill-building program in that region.

92Y’s Bronfman Center for Jewish Life and the Belfer Center for Innovation & Social Impact are collaborating to launch the 92Y Jewish Innovation Fellowship, a brand new nondenominational fellowship program for rabbinical students in NYC.

92Y American Conversation launched in 2012 as an election year initiative and brought the very best in political, economic and cultural dialogue for all Americans.