The fifty year war on poverty has not made poverty escapable. We believe our society should shift to a proven model of success. Investing in low and working income communities will incentivize upward mobility as opposed to only making poverty more tolerable. To do this, we are partnering with thousands of families across the country to shift the long-held perceptions, policies, and practices aimed at reducing poverty in low-income communities. We are shifting the focus from a top-down approach where families are seen as needing help and intervention to a bottom-up approach where families are the solution. This movement is demonstrating a new way to trust and invest in low-income families. Resident-led solutions are culturally relevant and highly sustainable, and as such, produce greater returns on investments
By deepening and expanding our support of families’ grassroots organizing skills and investing in those initiatives and projects, we are demonstrating how families can lift up their households, neighborhoods, and cities.
In doing this, we: