A CITYWIDE MOVEMENT TO MAKE SUPPORT VISIBLE, REACHABLE, MEASURABLE, AND LOCAL.
Opportunity Knocks
Building a City of Opportunity
Proof That Opportunity Works.
Communities have the partners, resources, and local leadership to show what happens when opportunity is made visible, trusted, and easy to act on.
Average debt
reduced by family
55%
Average income
growth by family
$17,946
Saved in a single day at
the Tacoma event
$501,000
Typical credit score
increase per person
+88
Feel less stressed
about money
92%
- The community sees real stories.
- They meet trusted partners.
- They take practical next steps.
- Their progress is supported
and measured.
What Makes
This Different.
This turns existing resources into a visible movement people can join!
Opportunity Knocks creates a Culture of Opportunity by making support feel visible, trusted, and worth taking action on.
Instead of asking people to navigate systems alone, leaders bring the pathway to them.
The Tools
Create follow-through
through the Coach,
Finder, and Hub,
helping residents find
resources, track
progress, and keep
moving forward.
The Opportunity Knocks Model
The Show
The Live
The show creates belief. The live experience creates action.
The tools create measurable progress.
Creates belief through
real families, trusted
coaches, and stories
that make financial
progress feel possible,
personal, and worth
starting.
Turns belief into
action through a
joyful community
event where residents
meet partners, get
support, and take
next steps.
Opportunity Knocks is the award-winning series on PBS where real families take practical steps toward financial stability with trusted coaches and local partners.
The show helps people see themselves in progress feel human, possible, and worth the story. It makes financial
starting.
For your community, the show creates a national platform to spotlight local families, trusted organizations, and the citywide Culture of Opportunity.
The Show
Creates Belief
The show makes people believe change is possible.
OPPORTUNITY KNOCKS SEASON 3
See what happens when real families get real support.
Watch the trailer & see how opportunity becomes action.
In Season 3 of Opportunity Knocks, families take brave next steps toward stability, confidence, and a stronger future with help from trusted coaches, local partners, and free tools anyone can use.
Reduce debt, lower costs, improve credit.
Make More Money
Explore jobs, career paths, and small business support.
Real Life Resources
Connect with trusted partners for housing, healthcare, childcare, education, legal help, and more.
Opportunity Knocks Live Turns Belief Into Action
Support becomes visible, trusted, and actionable.
A free, full-day experience where people take real steps forward in one place, in one day.
OPPORTUNITY KNOCKS SEASON 3
See what happens when a community turns support into action.
Watch the trailer & imagine what a City of Opportunity could make possible.
Opportunity Knocks Live brings trusted partners, practical resources, and real next steps together in one place, in one day. It is where financial empowerment becomes visible, local, and easier to start.
The Hub
Trains partners to
coordinate support and
track progress.
The Coach
The Finder
The show creates belief. The live experience creates action.
The live experience creates momentum.The tools help people keep going.
Gives people a financial
starting point and
personalized plan.
Connects people to local support and trusted resources.
The Tools Turn Action Into
Measurable Progress
A live activation that turns hope into action in one powerful day.
Tools that turn confusion into a clear path forward.
Partners who turn isolated services into one trusted network.
Data that turns individual progress into community intelligence.
Opportunity Becomes a Communitywide Movement
A Culture of Opportunity that turns your city into proof for the nation.
OPPORTUNITY KNOCKS SEASON 3
Watch what a City of Opportunity makes possible.
See the progress. Then imagine what this could make possible in your community.
This video shows the real outcomes behind the Opportunity Knocks model. Families reduce debt, grow income, improve credit, lower stress, and take meaningful steps toward a stronger future with support from trusted coaches, local partners, and free tools.
- Attend one virtual monthly meeting
- Send an empowered delegate when they cannot attend
- Open doors to trusted partners, funders, and community leaders
- Help shape the local experience around access, trust, and real needs
- Support promotion through their organization and networks
- Champion Chicago as a City of Opportunity
Leadership Board
Commitment
This works when trusted leaders move together with clear ownership and shared momentum.
The Leadership Board helps Chicago own the Culture of Opportunity from vision to action.
