Empowering Economic Opportunity

Purpose in 90 highlights our purpose-driven partners, community initiatives, and milestones we've reached throughout the year. In this episode, we're featuring our first- and second-quarter Purpose initiatives in 2026.

The Opportunity Exchange brings leaders together across cities to explore how capital, technology, and culture are reshaping economic opportunity—grounded in the strengths of each region. In Philadelphia, this conversation spotlights the city’s next wave of innovation, where frontier technology, research, and data‑driven industries are converging to expand access and drive economic growth.

Purpose in 90 is a glimpse into our Purpose, highlighting our partners, community initiatives and milestones we’ve reached throughout the year. In this episode, we’re highlighting our third and fourth quarter Purpose initiatives from 2025 across all of Nasdaq.

A more equitable financial system is a stronger one. When participation expands and trust grows, markets become more resilient.

Economic opportunity is built through access: access to markets, access to capital, and access to the ability to build sustainable wealth. Hear how founders, investors, and leaders from Nasdaq’s Economic Opportunity Summit define what economic opportunity means to them, and what it makes possible.

The Economic Opportunity Summit brought together bold voices at the intersection of tech, money, access, and storytelling. From creators to investors, we explored how purposeful growth can unlock prosperity for all.

Purpose in 90 is a glimpse into our Purpose, highlighting our partners, community initiatives and milestones we’ve reached throughout the year. In this episode, we’re highlighting our first quarter and second Purpose initiatives from 2025 across all of Nasdaq.

The Nasdaq Foundation is partnering with Million Stories, a digital media channel founded by the Singleton Foundation for Financial Literacy and Entrepreneurship, on The Investment Quest—a five-part short-form video series that builds on key insights from the Transforming Investor Identity Report.

With support from the Nasdaq Foundation, Community Investment Corporation's Arizona Capital Access Program is growing a local funder base in Arizona by activating a new generation of investors through peer-led investor groups.

Nasdaq is the trusted fabric of the financial system — we empower economic opportunity by designing and deploying the technology, data, and advanced analytics that enable market participants to capture opportunities, navigate risk, and strengthen resilience.

Purpose in 90 is a pragmatic view of our Purpose, highlighting our partners, community initiatives and milestones we’ve reached throughout the year. In this episode, we’re highlighting our 2024 third and fourth quarter Purpose initiatives across all of Nasdaq.

On this #NasdaqSpotlight, in celebration of the Nasdaq Entrepreneurial Center's Milestone Circles 4-year anniversary, President of Nasdaq Foundation Jailan Griffiths and @wellsfargo Head of Philanthropy and Community Impact Darlene Goins discuss Darlene's strategic approach to philanthropy, the complexities entrepreneurs face in the financial services industry, and the emergence of resources available to entrepreneurs of all backgrounds.

Purpose in 90 is a pragmatic view of our Purpose, highlighting our partners, community initiatives and milestones we’ve reached throughout the year. In this episode, we’re highlighting our 2024 first and second quarter Purpose initiatives across all of Nasdaq.