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Arts | Economic Security | Education | Jewish Life | Other Grantmaking Interests

Grant Programs: Economic Security

The purpose of the Economic Security grantmaking area is to help low-income adults and families achieve upward mobility and economic security. The program's goals focus on workforce development, asset building, and foreclosure response. The Fund supports programs that address these issues through direct services, public policy reform, and field building activities.

Workforce Development: To help low-income adults gain the skills and access necessary to secure quality employment and achieve upward mobility.
  • Vocational training programs that provide targeted training to move low-skilled workers along identified career paths in a specific industry sector or set of occupations, resulting in family-sustaining incomes. These programs should offer comprehensive support for students and must include strong partnerships with employers.
  • Strengthen the capacity of the community college system to partner with employers and offer basic skills remediation and vocational training for students who enter that system with limited skills, low incomes, and other barriers to success.
  • Programs that expand personal and professional networks through mentoring, internships, coaching, or other methods.
  • Programs that develop leadership skills, encourage mutual support, and cultivate a sense of social responsibility among participants.
Build Assets: To help low-wealth adults and families gain the financial assets that increase economic security and upward mobility.
  • Programs that build financial capability and increase access to quality financial products and services.
  • Programs that promote individual saving and investment.
  • Programs that assist entrepreneurs to establish and grow micro-businesses.
  • Programs that expand personal and professional networks through mentoring, coaching, or other methods.
  • Programs that develop leadership skills, encourage mutual support, and cultivate a sense of social responsibility among participants.
Foreclosure Response: To stabilize low and moderate-income families at risk of losing their homes through foreclosure, and avoid large scale displacement of residents in communities hardest hit by foreclosure.
  • Programs that prevent families from losing their homes through foreclosure or that mitigate the financial, social, and emotional impacts on families when this cannot be avoided.
  • Initiatives to preserve affordable homeownership and prevent blight and large-scale displacement in neighborhoods hardest hit by foreclosure.
Public Policy and Systems Change: To encourage changes in public policy and improve the delivery of services.
  • Support for public policy advocacy, system change, and field-building activities that advance the goals of the Fund's Economic Security program.