Poverty Initiative Receives Grant from Mott Foundation

Union is proud to announce a one-year grant of $55,000 to The Poverty Initiative from The Charles Stewart Mott Foundation’s Pathways out of Poverty Program. This award will support the year-round Poverty Scholars leadership development and training program, which seeks to lift up the hidden genius of grassroots leaders most affected by poverty, while further developing their leadership, voice, organizing skills and capacity for intellectual engagement.

The Program brings together a unique network of leading grassroots organizers (men, women and youth from urban and rural communities) – Poverty Scholars – with proven local-level success working on issues of economic justice including

• unemployment,
• community revitalization,
• housing/homelessness,
• immigration,
• water privatization,
• ecological devastation,
• eviction and foreclosure,
• healthcare,
• low-wage workers’ rights,
• organization of poor youth,
• public education reform,
• grassroots media production,
• and living wages.