Over the past four years, New America has been researching Grow Your Own (GYO) programs as a strategy for growing and diversifying the teacher workforce. GYO programs--partnerships between school districts, institutions of higher education, and community-based organizations to recruit and prepare community members to become teachers in local schools--are increasingly popular as a strategy for teacher recruitment and development. Research on GYO suggests that homegrown teachers have higher rates of retention and that these programs remove barriers that have kept some individuals from being able to access and persist in a teacher preparation program. At the same time, states are making efforts to increase the racial and linguistic diversity of the teacher workforce. Given the expanding interest in GYO, the author set out to learn more about these programs across the country. A 50-state scan was conducted to identify GYO programs--including target candidates, types of programs, and their design--and to investigate state policies that support GYO program development, implementation, and sustainability. This brief will highlight our findings to help uncover the current state of GYO programs.