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Poverty & Financial Literacy Challenges:

I challenge you to find ways to make your generation the last ALICE generation (Asset Limited, Income Constrained, Employed) by designing a solution that encourages families to utilize community resources that help achieve economic stability.

Joe Zubizarreta

I challenge you to design a model that increases access to affordable, healthy food for communities that need it most, while stimulating awareness about the importance of healthy food and nutrition.

Patty Stonesifer

I challenge you to create and test a business idea that will help address a problem of poverty within your community.

Jo-Ann Tan

I challenge you to design a program that disrupts one or more of the factors contributing to the generational cycle of poverty and, in doing so, creates opportunities for education or training after high school, affordable housing, and/or sustainable careers.

Jamila Harris-Morrison

I challenge you, the students of Los Angeles, Ca, to create more human centered approaches to work towards ultimately lifting people out of poverty for good. What can we learn about innovative customer service techniques (think about when you entered a mac store vs a county office) to drive success in the war on poverty?

Michelle Rhone-Collins

Poverty & Financial Literacy Solutions:

I challenge you to find ways to make your generation the last ALICE generation (Asset Limited, Income Constrained, Employed) by designing a solution that encourages families to utilize community resources that help achieve economic stability.

Joe Zubizarreta

S.U.N.R.I.S.E (Serving Under-resourced Neighborhoods Reaching Ideal Stress-free Environments)

We envision a society that embraces economic empowerment and combats financial disparities with social outreach and resources.

OutLOUD

Using advertising to connect people to affordable childcare services will allow ALICE families to spend less of their income on childcare, which allows them to have more freedom when allocating their earnings.

ALICE Busters

The lives of a generation will be forever changed by increasing financial stability and literacy. People will want to join these efforts because it will secure generational wealth.

I challenge you to design a model that increases access to affordable, healthy food for communities that need it most, while stimulating awareness about the importance of healthy food and nutrition.

Patty Stonesifer
https://youtu.be/sE365mIqg1w?list=PL7fuyfNu8jfOAlp2DHArW33t-FGSrsOaf

The Healthy Knights

We will develop a system to provide affordable healthy food and educate our community through a mentorship program.

https://youtu.be/sQTYoHz-dTQ?list=PL7fuyfNu8jfOAlp2DHArW33t-FGSrsOaf

Stamp Out Hunger DC

Stamp Out Hunger DC makes healthy and affordable food available to low income families in Wards 5, 7, and 8 through the establishment of model community gardens to teach residents how to produce fresh and healthy foods.

I challenge you to create and test a business idea that will help address a problem of poverty within your community.

Jo-Ann Tan

TMA Gourmet

TMA Gourmet is eradicating the issue of limited food access that plagues communities of poverty by providing parents, students, and members of our community healthier eating options from our school garden.

Mountain Lions

Our goal is to disrupt teen poverty in our community by focusing on high school attendance through financial incentives.

BINC

Our mission at BINC (Banneker, Inc.) is to develop an innovative and sustainable business solution to an issue of poverty in our city wide community through a website. This website, oriented to the needs of our community and made possible by financial support from local businesses, will offer coupons and solutions through a forum-like interface to address the primary needs of our community and will be accessible to any and all that wish to make use of and to contribute to the database.

I challenge you to design a program that disrupts one or more of the factors contributing to the generational cycle of poverty and, in doing so, creates opportunities for education or training after high school, affordable housing, and/or sustainable careers.

Jamila Harris-Morrison

Alpas

Alpas will build a bridge between existing resources and those in need who are unaware of those resources by hosting workshops, utilizing social media, and partnering with community organizations.

P.A.U.S.E. (Poverty And Unemployment Stopped Through Education)

P.A.U.S.E. is a nonprofit organization that addresses the factors of poverty by offering educational and training opportunities and presenting employment/career choices through informational sessions and career fairs within the Nicetown/Tioga community.

Future Finance

Having seen the effects of generational poverty, we at Future Finance will break that chain by offering financial literacy workshops to youth and families throughout our community.

Pioneers 4 Poverty

Pioneers 4 Poverty will disrupt generational poverty within our community by offering a four-week holistic workshop to improve life skills and stress the importance of a well-rounded education.

I challenge you, the students of Los Angeles, Ca, to create more human centered approaches to work towards ultimately lifting people out of poverty for good. What can we learn about innovative customer service techniques (think about when you entered a mac store vs a county office) to drive success in the war on poverty?

Michelle Rhone-Collins