Social Flourishing Seminar

For decades, the dominant approaches to poverty alleviation in the United States have been centralized, top-down, and expert-led. An enormous amount of public and private time, effort, and money has been spent—and yet millions of struggling Americans appear stuck. What can be done?
Poverty Trap: How Big Plans to End Poverty Broke the Promise of America, coming in 2027, examines what has gone wrong in American efforts to solve poverty—and captures the inspiring stories of people finding a better way. Follow us for updates.
We’re forming a partner network of institution builders—local and regional leaders working to make their neighborhoods and cities places where people thrive.
