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1901 Mississippi Ave SE, Washington, DC 20020
Event Description
Dramatically Increasing Mobility from Poverty
Please join the US Partnership on Mobility from Poverty as we share findings and recommendations, lift up community voices, and discuss how we move ideas to action to dramatically increase mobility from poverty.
Funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and staffed and supported by the Urban Institute, the Partnership was tasked with answering one big, bold question: What Would It Take to Dramatically Increase Mobility from Poverty? Now, at the end of two years of learning with diverse communities around the country, the Partnership is putting forward powerful, actionable ideas.
The agenda included:
Community Voices
- Thelma Collins, Itta Bena, MS
- Dilza Gonzalez, San Jose, CA
- Devin Johnson, Washington, DC
- Leonard Rilett, Riverview, MI
A Call for Unity: The Partnership’s Definition of Mobility
- Arthur C. Brooks*, President, American Enterprise Institute
- john a. powell*, Director, Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society
Measuring Mobility
- Hilary Pennington, Executive Vice President, Ford Foundation; Core Funder, Fund for Shared Insight
- Melinda Tuan, Managing Director, Fund for Shared Insight
Interlocking Strategies: Narrative, Jobs, Place, People, and Data
- Elisabeth Babcock*, President and CEO, Economic Mobility Pathways
- David T. Ellwood*, Chair, US Partnership on Mobility from Poverty; Isabelle and Scott Black Professor of Political Economy, Harvard Kennedy School
- Reverend Luis Cortés, Jr.*, Founder, President, and CEO, Esperanza
- Lawrence Katz*, Elisabeth Allison Professor of Economics, Harvard University
- Ai-jen Poo*, Director, National Domestic Workers Alliance; Codirector, Caring Across Generations
Leveraging Big Data to Support Community Efforts
- William J. Bynum*, Chief Executive Officer, Hope Enterprise Corporation
- Raj Chetty*, Professor, Stanford University
- Kathryn Edin*, Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs, Princeton University
- Sarah Oppenheimer, Director of Research and Evaluation, King County Housing Authority
Moving Ideas into Action
- Joshua Bolten*, President and CEO, Business Roundtable
- Clotilde Perez-Bode Dedecker, President and CEO, Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo
- Sue Desmond-Hellmann, CEO, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
- Wes Moore, CEO, Robin Hood
- Nisha G. Patel, Executive Director, US Partnership on Mobility from Poverty
- Peter Scher, Chairman of the Mid-Atlantic Region and Global Head of Corporate Responsibility, JPMorgan Chase & Co.
*Members of the US Partnership on Mobility from Poverty
Materials
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