Advise sector leaders on efficient safety net services
Nearly 82 million people live below 50% AMI, leaving many throughout our nation struggling to secure basic need items and services.
Seek avenues to share your experiences with business leaders, nonprofit organizations, philanthropic organizations, and local government to help ensure that programs are focused and effective.
To get started:
Compile a list of individuals or groups with which you want to connect.
Develop talking points to share what is working and what is not working.
Highlight barriers to obtaining essential items and services, such as inaccessible transportation or lack of identification, to better inform those with whom you connect.
Best Practices / Innovative Programs
Utilize this site to locate contact information for your elected officials.
The Women’s Fund of the Greater Cincinnati Foundation created an advisory council to ensure the most important voices, those with lived experience, are heard in discussions around poverty and how to address it in the community.
The Basic Needs Investment Review Council is coordinated by the Trident United Way and helps guide basic need investment funds. Council members include individuals with lived experience with poverty.
Food Bank of the Southern Tier in New York operates a speakers bureau that helps to elevate the voices of individuals with lived experience with poverty so that they can lead change.
