Ways to Respond to Poverty

Other Funder Strategies

Annie E. Casey Foundation
The Annie E. Casey Foundation, which is focused on children and families, was created in 1948 by Jim Casey, the founder of UPS. The foundation believes that kids do well when they live in supportive families, and families do better when they live in supportive neighbourhoods. Their approach is three-pronged:

Connect families to economic opportunities and assets
Connect families to services and supports that work
Strengthen the informal social networks that connect families together

Vibrant Communities
The many Canadian cities and regions linked through Vibrant Communities are approaching poverty in different ways – but the common thread is that they are building community-wide coalitions and partnerships to tackle poverty systemically.

Action for Neighbourhood Change
United Way Canada, Tamarack Institute, the Caledon Institute and five partner cities, with the financial support of three federal government departments, launched this two-year national research and learning project in 2005. It focused on how local revitalization strategies can help citizens build strong sustainable neighbourhoods and proposes an asset-based, resident-led model of neighbourhood development.

The Charles Stewart Mott Foundation
The Mott Foundation, a large US private foundation, funds four strategies "to identify, test and help sustain pathways out of poverty: improving community education, expanding economic opportunity, building organized communities, and special initiatives." They have identified goals and objectives within each one.