Coordinating a collaborative and comprehensive approach to poverty reduction to transform lives and help families thrive.
Serving a five-county area including Boone, Dekalb, Ogle, Stephenson & Winnebago Counties.
Getting Ahead Classes
Getting Ahead in a Just-Gettin’-By World is a curriculum that helps individuals in poverty build their resources for a more prosperous life for themselves, their families, and their communities. The program guides participants through the process of assessing their own lives and circumstances and teaches them how to build those resources and how to develop tools and skills as part of their move to self-sufficiency.
Upward Mobility
Reducing poverty is not something that any government,
institution or group of agencies can accomplish on their own.
Ultimately, poverty reduction is the whole community’s
responsibility. Using the Upward Mobility Framework created by Urban Institute, we help build cross-sector teams that can plan, advocate for and implement a set of systems changes focused on bringing all members of our community out of poverty and creating more equitable results.
Poverty Reduction Workshops
Poverty Reduction Workshops are available to be hosted at your organization for professional development of your staff, board and stakeholders. The sessions contain case studies, simple exercises, testimonials and real solutions. The series of Workshops will change the way you view poverty forever and provide you with tools and strategies to implement within your organization and community.