This week’s featured Actions
In advance of this September’s launch, here are some sample solutions
from the business, faith, health care, government, and civic sectors.
Stay tuned for more actions and more sectors in the coming weeks!
Help individuals obtain driver’s licenses
Implement or support a program that provides the training and financial assistance necessary to obtain a driver's license.
Connect with or create a vehicle donation program
Partner with an existing program in your region or develop your own vehicle donation program.
Dedicate resources to help those you serve live in safer communities
Build partnerships and/or create programming to interrupt the cycles of violence, incarceration, and trauma experienced by those in poverty.
Support families pursuing home ownership
Invest in a wide array of programs, including home ownership loans, technical assistance, manufactured homes, and community land trusts.
Set up a utility assistance program
Use your connections and resources to ensure families do not lose their homes or are not forced to live without heat, light, or gas.
Adopt a Housing First approach
Build partnerships across sectors to support the obtaining and retaining of housing for individuals and families as they start to rise out of poverty.
Deliver wellness and self-care programs to those without other means of access
Teach yoga, nutrition, stress management, and other empowering programs in communities with high levels of people living below the NPPS.
Develop multifaceted, cross-sector approaches to addiction
Work with health care, local government, and businesses to implement innovative solutions focused on both prevention and treatment.
Partner with health care providers to increase access to preventive care
Utilize your range of networks, from high-poverty communities to health care leaders, to bring care where health risk is highest.
Increase awareness of federal tax credits for families near or below poverty
Develop communication strategies to inform those you serve of available resources such as the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC), the Child Tax Credit (CTC), education tax credits, and more.
Develop culturally-sensitive, holistic financial planning programs
Encourage your clients to pursue savings and wealth-building strategies that take advantage of your programming and resources in the community.
Create youth-focused financial planning programs
Develop curriculum that can support financial education offered by other sectors, with an emphasis on putting knowledge into practice (e.g., student checking accounts).
Help close the digital divide
Build partnerships with local schools to help them obtain hardware, software, and technology support.
Provide tech devices to students
Offer tech devices to local schools to support student success.
Provide child care services within a housing program
Provide low- or no-cost child care programs within affordable housing communities to increase ease of access.
Improve access to clean water
Ensure that all residents of your community and region have access to clean water and adequate water infrastructure.
Fund holistic housing models
Invest in partnerships for mixed income residences that have a holistic social service model.