Part I: The Bridges Out Of Poverty Model
Part II: How to Develop a Bridges Community: Steps
Part III: Developing a Bridges Community: Costs

Cincinnati Works Works!
www.cincinnatiworks.org

Mental Health America, Getting Ahead - Newark, OH
www.MHALC.org

Mercy Connections - Vermont
www.mercyconnections.org

Neighborkeepers - Burlington, VT
www.neighborkeepers.org

Pensacola, FL
www.unitedwayescambia.org

St. Joseph, Bridges Out of Poverty - South Bend, IN
www.sjcbridges.org

How to utilize VISTA volunteers in a Circles Campaign
Bridges communities in Ohio discuss how to utilize VISTA volunteers in a Circles Campaign. It's a good match, Bridges, Circles, and VISTA all work to end poverty. Circles initiatives take a lot of ground work that VISTA volunteers can do for your community.

Bridges out of Poverty constructs used by business sector
Listen in on a discussion about how Bridges constructs are being used by business. The business sector can play a big part in building stable and prosperous communities. Discover how Bridges is being applied in light manufacturing, health care, and utilities. Done right it can help businesses improve retention rates and customer service and it can help people get on the path to a living wage. You'll hear from Bridges communities in Vermont, Michigan, and Indiana. You'll come away with ideas on how to engage business in a way that works for them and the community.

Battle Creek, Michigan discusses how the Circles Campaign is working in their community
This teleseminar conducted with several communities' discuses how the Circles campaign is being done in Bridges Communities. Battle Creek describes how they have structured their steering committee/guiding coalition, where they have found funding, how they attract people from outside of the service delivery system to the steering committee/guiding coalition, what's worked well and what hasn't, and what the best thing their community has done that you will want to know for your community. This is followed by general sharing of ideas and information. Listen to their conversation here.

The Sociological Initiatives Foundation

Reflections from Getting Ahead in a Just-Gettin-By World - By World Pilot Group

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Cascade Engineering
As a consulting-based business, Quest is a first-of-its-kind initiative within Cascade Engineering. Quest’s nationally and peer recognized, social capital programs (Welfare to Career and Diversity Management) work to transform long-held beliefs about people who may be different from ourselves into values that stimulate productive alliances within peer groups and the workplace.

Read more about Quest’s sustainable solutions and their three-phased educational approach to diversity. www.cascadeng.com/quest

The Minnesota Collaborative Anti-Racism Initiative (MCARI)
The Minnesota Collaborative Anti-Racism Initiative (MCARI) provides substantial anti-racism consultation and training to assist institutions develop the capacity to deal with racism as a systemic issue. MCARI provides the tools and networking that puts them in a position to utilize all the other resources the broader anti-racism community provides—resources that organizations may not otherwise be in a position to utilize effectively and consistently. www.mcari.org

Learn about MCARI's three-phase process to develop an internal anti-racism leadership team.

Teaching and Leading as Social Justice Advocacy
A Program of Educational Equity Consultants, L.L.C.
Teaching and Leading as Social Justice Advocacy (TLSJA) is a multi-year, systemic professional development program which assist teachers and administrators in developing the knowledge, skills, and dispositions necessary to integrate social justice issues into the learning environment and to implement culturally relevant teaching in their classrooms and schools. TLSJA is based on the premise that there is an important correlation between student achievement and the capacity of teachers and administrators to develop and sustain a consciousness about race, class and gender. The program facilitates the growth of race consciousness through a series of activities and discussions that focus on the intersection between the participant’s individual racial identity and the enactment of their role as teacher and/or leader of the district’s curriculum and instruction goals. more

Building houses and communities with Katrina victims – the Bridges Way
It’s been almost three years since the Gulf Coast was hit with the one-two punch of Katrina and Rita and still 80,000 displaced people need homes. aha! Process is now going to work with investors and builders to build homes and communities using Bridges strategies. The Bridges into Prosperity: a Hurricane Katrina Disaster Housing Initiative means that those displaced will be at the planning table when their new homes and communities are being built. It also means their homes will be affordable and of high quality.

aha! Process Disaster Recovery Model
When we become victims of war and natural disasters or live in persistent poverty, we are impacted in various ways. aha! Process can help build a community where everyone can do well.

Many pro bono clients come from “generational poverty” and have inherited mindsets and skills that differ from those of middle-class clients. Awareness of these differences can improve an attorney’s ability to provide effective representation. Here are some tips to help attorneys understand and effectively serve their pro bono clients. www.abaprobono.org

Some of the complexities found at the intersection of poverty and healthcare can be understood, and addressed, using the lens of economic class. In this paper, Payne and DeVol identify some of the complexities that exist at the intersection of poverty and healthcare that aren’t part of the standard lexicon but arise from the findings of A Framework for Understanding Poverty (1996, 2005).