Chicago CRED—CREATE REAL ECONOMIC DESTINY—is an anti-gun violence organization co-founded in 2016 by Arne Duncan, a former U.S. Secretary of Education and CEO of Chicago Public Schools, and Laurene Powell Jobs, the founder and president of Emerson Collective, a Palo Alto-based social impact organization. Emerson Collective, a company that invests in entrepreneurs and innovators driven by purpose and a sense of possibility.