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!
Build cross-sector partnerships to highlight effective programs
Host forums to help organizations and social enterprises share impact and best practices, and to identify service gaps.
Establish a social enterprise in your neighborhood
Create a new business that offers basic need items while also training and employing community members.
Advise sector leaders on efficient safety net services
Share your experience and/or the experience of others who have experienced scarcity with leaders from different sectors.
Improve access to clean water
Ensure that all residents of your community and region have access to clean water and adequate water infrastructure.
Serve as an anchor institution or partner in operating a market
Form or join an existing multi-sector partnership or serve as an anchor institution to operate a community grocery or mobile market.
Provide a guide for patients to find basic need items
Offer patients below 50% AMI an extensive list of local resources for basic need items.
Improve access to obtaining official IDs
Connecting with neighborhood leaders will help agencies charged with providing official forms of identification to increase access.
Provide a list of essential resources to community members
Research and consolidate information on programs that offer food, clothing, furniture, and other essentials.
Create a basic needs resource guide
Civic associations serve as a strong conduit between resources in a community and those who do not have adequate access.
Assist programs working “on the ground”
Volunteer, fundraise, or collect items for an organization that distributes basic need items.
Create a department or new business to address basic needs
Develop a business model that makes basic need items financially and geographically accessible.
Improve access to clean water
Invest in organizations that increase access to clean water and adequate water infrastructure for individuals in need.