OUR COMMUNITY PARTNERS
We have learned alongside our Community Partners as they have faced challenges, overcome barriers, and achieved extraordinary successes. Find out more about each project and the outcomes below.
YEAR
2020
GRANT CATEGORY
Health & Well-Being
GRANT AMOUNT
$25,000
Organization:
UpTogether (fka Family Independence Initiative)
Title:
Advancing Economic Mobility through Direct Investment and Social Capital
Description:
Family Independence Initiative (FII) invests directly in low-income people so they can work individually and collectively to achieve prosperity. Its technology platform, UpTogether, enables people to strengthen existing and create new social networks, access unrestricted financial capital, set goals on their self-determined paths, monitor progress, and support one another in achieving economic and social mobility.
Family Independence Initiative will use this grant to enroll and provide $3,000 unrestricted cash transfers to eight new families in the St. Johns neighborhood—one with the highest rates of poverty and displacement in the city.
Grant Status:
Family Independence Initiative is now UpTogether. Our 2020 Health & Well-Being Secondary Grant was unrestricted. UpTogether used funds to support general operations, including technology subscriptions and merchant fees. The grant also supported planning to implement a 12-month pilot of the strength-based approach. With our operating support, UpTogether leveraged other funds to invest directly in families.
UpTogether chose to not be highlighted in a Grant Outcomes video produced by Impact Austin.