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Program at a Glance

Mission: To identify, test and help sustain pathways out of poverty for low-income people and communities.

Improving Community Education

Goal: To ensure that community education serves as a pathway out of poverty for children in low-income communities.

Objectives

• Community-Driven Reform: To develop effective community-driven reform strategies that increase student achievement across a school district and at the state or regional level.
• Vulnerable Youth: To expand effective educational opportunities for vulnerable youth that prepare them for both college and careers.
• Learning Beyond the Classroom: To enable the 21st Century Community Learning Centers and other major national, statewide and regional initiatives to promote sustainable, community-driven, expanded learning opportunities that support both academic achievement and positive youth development, especially for traditionally underserved children and youth.

Expanding Economic Opportunity

Goal: To expand opportunity for those in, or at risk of, persistent poverty by promoting policies and programs that increase income security, help people connect to the labor market and enable them to advance into better-quality, higher-paying jobs.

Objectives

• Income Security: To improve income security for low-income Americans by advancing policies and programs designed to increase income and assets, promote more equitable fiscal policies affecting low-income families, and build public will for a work-based safety net to assist low-wage working families.
• Reducing Barriers to Employment: To reduce barriers to employment through support for research, dissemination and practice that leads to a greater understanding of the problems faced by low-income people in the labor market.
• Retention and Wage Progression: To help low-income workers stay in the labor market and increase their earnings over time.

Building Organized Communities

Goal: To enhance the variety, geographic spread, power and effectiveness of the community-organizing field in order to strengthen and sustain the involvement of low-income communities in democratic processes of social engagement.

Objectives

• Building Infrastructure: To improve the quality of community organizing in low-income communities by increasing resources to institutions, organizations, technical assistance providers and networks, which serve to produce, nurture or expand community-based organizations or increase awareness of their effectiveness as an anti-poverty strategy nationally.

Special Initiatives

Goal: To sustain promising practices and promote innovative and multidisciplinary approaches to reduce persistent poverty.

Objectives

• Transitions: To maintain a critical presence in the field of micro-enterprise.
• Exploratory and Special Projects: To identify critical issues, seize special opportunities, research issues to determine future program directions and promote cross-cutting projects.