Grant Period:
2022-2024
Grant Type:
General Operating
Grantee Since:
2022
Other Funders:
Amount:
$230,000 over 2 years
Location:
Jackson, MS
Focus Area:
Mission
Springboard to Opportunity and Mississippi Low-Income Child Care Initiatives seek to shift narratives surrounding families in poverty and uplift and amplify the voices of caregivers in the community and support organizing for change.
Project Summary
Springboard to Opportunity's (Jackson, MS location) goal is for affordable housing residents to recognize the power that they already have to disrupt these systems and make change within their own lives, communities, and the various systems that affect their day-to-day lives by providing the tools and supports necessary to enact that change.
Mississippi Low-Income Child Care Initiatives is a statewide non-profit public policy advocacy organization working to strengthen women’s economic security by making child care affordable for low-income working moms, achieving gender and racial equity in the workforce and making the safety net work for women.
While Springboard and MLICCI have collaborated on several task forces and working groups in the past, this project will mark the beginning of a formal collaboration between the two organizations to shift narratives surrounding families in poverty and uplift and amplify the voices of caregivers in the community and support organizing for change.