Transforming the social safety net requires changing the policies, structures and conditions that shape families’ economic opportunities. We invest in policy and field-building efforts that address historical and structural inequities, remove barriers to economic success, and create pathways for families and communities to build income, assets and wealth and exercise greater choice over their futures.

Families and communities are essential partners in this work. We center their lived expertise and power in identifying barriers, shaping policy solutions and defining the futures they want to create. Learning from our NextGen, place-based and other investments also helps us identify opportunities to translate what is working into policy and systems change at the local, state and federal levels. 

A Human Rights Economy is central to this work—an economy that puts people, families and communities at the center and prioritizes well-being, needs, rights and agency. Through policy change, field building, narrative change, research, learning and partnership, we seek to strengthen the conditions necessary for a real “New Deal for Families” and lasting intergenerational economic success. 

Our field-building investments strengthen the people, organizations, knowledge, relationships and infrastructure needed to sustain change over time. This includes supporting leaders, convening partners, sharing learning, providing technical assistance and building connections across sectors and levels of government.