Partner with existing providers to share your experiences.

Utilize your experience in the workforce to help individuals succeed and build their professional networks.

Your experience is vital to informing changes in the education system to ensure that every child, no matter their zip code, receives an education that will prepare them for financial independence in their future.

Volunteer with a mentorship program or connect with a local school to inquire about providing long-term support to a student.

Share your time, interests, and skills by volunteering at a local child care center that has a high child-to-adult ratio.

Join an existing babysitting co-op or connect with parents in your community to start one.

Create a new business that offers basic need items while also training and employing community members.

Share your experience and/or the experience of others who have experienced scarcity with leaders from different sectors.

Implement or support a program that provides the training and financial assistance necessary to obtain a driver's license.

Partner with an existing program in your region or develop your own vehicle donation program.

Build partnerships and/or create programming to interrupt the cycles of violence, incarceration, and trauma experienced by those in poverty.

Invest in a wide array of programs, including home ownership loans, technical assistance, manufactured homes, and community land trusts.

Use your connections and resources to ensure families do not lose their homes or are not forced to live without heat, light, or gas.

Preventing evictions is far more cost-effective than executing and dealing with the repercussions of evictions.

Build partnerships across sectors to support the obtaining and retaining of housing for individuals and families as they start to rise out of poverty.

Teach yoga, nutrition, stress management, and other empowering programs in communities with high levels of people living below the NPPS.

Work with health care, local government, and businesses to implement innovative solutions focused on both prevention and treatment.

Utilize your range of networks, from high-poverty communities to health care leaders, to bring care where health risk is highest.

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.

Encourage your clients to pursue savings and wealth-building strategies that take advantage of your programming and resources in the community.