At Innovative Poverty Solutions, we help groups develop and implement community-driven, innovative solutions for poverty reduction. We focus on building community across income lines and utilizing the power of social capital for community change. Social capital is the network of relationships and connections people have that provide access to resources, opportunities, and support. In short, it’s not always what you know, but who you know that matters.

We believe that social capital is the most valuable yet underutilized resource we have in the work to reduce poverty, and churches are one of the best places to build and steward social capital for the good of others.

We provide the training and resources to help you better understand poverty in your local context, convene people together in spaces of dialogue, reimagine what ideas and solutions could be possible, and then help move groups to action.

The tools and support we offer include:

• “Poverty IQ” training:
  • An immersive, experiential, and actionable approach to learning about the complexity of poverty and how to begin the work of reducing it.
    
    
• Community Dialogue and CoCreate Sessions:
  • Small events that facilitate healthy and productive discussion and collaboration to identify specific community barriers to reducing poverty, explore potential solutions, and opportunities to take action.
    
    
• Coaching and Consulting toward implementation:
  • As a follow up from training and community collaboration, coaching and support is offered on effectively implementing and integrating new initiatives.