Third Sector
Katherine Mercado currently serves as a Project Associate at Third Sector, a position held since April 2024. Prior to this role, Katherine worked as a Project Assistant at the Bipartisan Policy Center from May 2022 to March 2024, where responsibilities included conducting in-depth research on child care policies and regulations. Experience also includes an internship at the National Women's Law Center focused on state child care policy research, and an internship with the University of Wisconsin-Madison Division of Diversity, Equity, and Educational Achievement, collaborating with the Posse Foundation on professional development initiatives. Katherine began professional experience as a hostess at Cava Mezze from May 2018 to August 2019. Katherine holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Community and Nonprofit Leadership from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, completed in May 2022.
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Third Sector
Third Sector Capital Partners, Inc. is a national nonprofit technical assistance organization advising our government agencies on how to reshape their policies, systems, and services toward better outcomes for all people, regardless of race, background, and circumstances. Founded in 2011, Third Sector is a 501(c)3 organization that has worked with more than 50 communities to deploy more than $1.8 billion of government resources toward outcomes. Third Sector's consulting engagements are organized into four Practice Areas - Economic Mobility, Early Childhood, Diversion and Reentry, and Behavioral Health - and help government agencies to better use data to understand the impact of their programs, improve the way they contract for services, allocate resources to support underserved populations, and collaborate with community stakeholders and partner agencies to improve services. Third Sector strives to co-create projects with our partners, understand the root causes of inequity, implement data-driven and community-driven solutions, and set up sustainable systems for continuous improvement to ensure that governments can do this work with their partners after their engagement with Third Sector ends.