Regional collective action

Measurable impact

Better lives for Bay Area residents

“From Poverty to Prosperity: The Power of 9”Regional Conference – June 3, 2015

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Regional andlocal partnerships• Rise Together Bay Area is rooted in United

Way of the Bay Area’s extensive poverty-focused research and outreach for community conversations at the height of the Great Recession

• Our cross-sector, multi-county Steering Council was formed in 2011

• Rise Together’s Collective Impact approach utilizes the Roadmap to Cut Bay Area Poverty as our framework

• Our 180+ Roadmap Partners have been working hard to build a local and regional capacity that supports measurable numbers of families (especially critical populations) increasing their income to or above the Self Sufficiency Standard

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Why support a regional approach to poverty reduction?

Align partners and resources within and across counties to achieve common goals

Compliment and support local providers in doing their best and most impactful work

Promote and encourage scaling effective strategies across the region

Raise the profile of the Bay Area as a policy leader

Attract new/expanded investments in social change with shared measures that demonstrate impact

Developed the Roadmap to Cut Bay Area Poverty

Partnered with Insight Center, UCB/HIFIS and ASR for mapping, economic

microsimulations, literature review and qualitative data from convenings in all 9

counties

Invested funds in local work in Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin,

Silicon Valley, Napa & Solano

Launched the Rise Together brand, web site, Twitter feed, newsletter, living timeline and

recruited 180+ pledged Partners

Secured resources to launch Rise Together with a cross-sector, multi-disciplinary

regional Steering Council

Rise Together: Foundational Framework for Collective Impact

Research Report

• Analysis of Economic Microsimulations

• Mapping

• Literature Review

• Qualitative Data• County Convenings

• Focus Group

Key Findings

• Poverty in the Bay Area is widespread

• Prosperity is related to race and place

• In the Bay Area, “poverty” is a Self-Sufficiency Standard, not a Federal Poverty Threshold, conversation

Key Findings

• No (one) thing works. Everything works.

• A “package” of supports could move almost 150,000 Bay Area households to or above the Self Sufficiency Standard

• “Headline Strategies” – services and policies that change lives, hearts and minds

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Mapping

110+ Demographic and “Opportunity” maps• By region, by county, by census tract, by critical populations

Visual representations are illuminating and compelling

Can lead to a “deeper dive” into the data

Validate and justify evidence-informed anti-poverty strategies

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Self-SufficiencyStandard

Self-Sufficiency Maps are by Target Populations/Region

Maps will be available for all Roadmap Target Population Groups Female-headed households Families with young

children Men and boys of color Immigrants Seniors

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Opportunity Mapping

• “Opportunity” represents a complex set of indicators that take into account access to jobs, education and the quality of neighborhood life

• Opportunity tends to cluster in areas with good schools, safe neighborhoods and access to jobs/ transportation

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Opportunity Mapping

Opportunity tends to follow along highway corridors

Opportunity tends to cluster in and around cities

These maps can help us document the assets and challenges in neighborhoods, and design effective supports

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Economic Microsimulations

Used to estimate how demographic, behavioral and policy changes might affect individual outcomes, and to better-understand effects of current policies

Selected based on the key drivers to economic success: Basic Needs, Education and Jobs Rental Subsidy (Basic Needs) Increased Educational Attainment (Education) Minimum Wage Increases and Transitional Jobs program (Jobs) Policy package (Basic Needs, Education and Jobs)

Data is available for the region and for each county

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Microsimulations – Bay Area

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Microsimulations – Bay Area

County Convenings – Key Themes

• 276 participants across 9 counties

• High cost of living throughout the region – specifically housing

• “Hidden Poverty” throughout the counties

• Need for greater coordination of providers, services, and supports

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Headline Strategies

• Minimum wage

• State Earned Income Tax Credit

• Child care / Preschool

• Social Enterprise - “Safe Return”

• Linked Learning

• Affordable housing stock - Rapid Re-Housing/Shared Housing

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Get/stay active in the regional Rise Together movement!

Visit www.risetogetherbayarea.org

Follow us on Twitter @rise_bayarea

Sign the Rise Together Partner Pledge endorsing the Roadmap to Cut Bay Area Poverty

Consider joining a regional Work Group or Committee

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Special thanks to: Rise Together Steering Council Dr. Gabriela Sandoval – Insight Center Samir Gambhir, Steve Menendian & Eli Moore – UCB/Haas Institute for

a Fair and Inclusive Society Emmeline Taylor Susan Brutschy Lisa Colvig, Samantha Green & Lisa

Russell – Applied Survey Research Riana Robinson, Lyndsey Tu & Kathy Mooney – Rise Together Laura Escobar, Tse Ming Tam, Sonali Joshi, Lileen Shannon, Sylvia

Crater, India Swearingen & Juliana Deitch– United Way of the Bay Area Melanie Hopson and Betsy Baum Block – Consultants

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THANK YOU!

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