We offer families their own accountability system. They set their own goals and trust their peers to support them on their journey. Rather than providing social workers, services, or direction, we create an environment where families come together, empower themselves, and are trusted to improve their lives, in their own way. As they take initiative, families get more, not less, access to resources that can accelerate their efforts.
Families work together and on their own to set goals and find solutions to the problems they face – from child care, to savings, to affording tuition.
Families report monthly on their activities, finances, and progress through FII’s community building and data platform, UpTogether.
FII compiles and analyzes data from UpTogether to capture trends among families. We also develop personalized visualizations and reports so that families can follow their own progress in financial and non-financial areas of life.
We analyze the data to identify trends and make capital resources available to families through the UpTogether Fund. Families use these resources to accelerate their mobility.
We inform stakeholders – foundations, policymakers, and private companies – about what works so that they too can steer resources directly to family-driven solutions.
Families join FII in a group of 5 to 7 other families from their community. They make a 2-year commitment to one another by meeting and journaling monthly. In return, we unlock dollars in FII’s UpTogether Fund based on the data they provide accelerating their mobility.
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