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Safe & Stable Families

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How can my giving contribute to the physical and financial security of low-income families and neighborhoods? 

An abiding sense of insecurity, both physical and financial, is perhaps the most devastating feature of poverty. Increasing the physical and financial security of low-income communities, often on a family-by-family basis, is critical to a community’s long-term viability.

Safer families can be the result of community policing efforts, domestic violence programs and increased engagement in community affairs and decision-making. On the financial side, programs that help families establish mainstream banking relationships, avoid predatory lenders and save for the future lead to greater self-sufficiency and self-esteem.

Taken together, this increased security offers the breathing room needed for low-income families to play more active and positive roles in their neighborhoods and communities.

To learn how your giving can support efforts to enhance the physical and financial security of low-income families, read on.

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The New Mountain Climbers: African-American Giving Circle ascends new heights

The New Mountain Climbers: African-American Giving Circle ascends new heights

Collective action, pooled resources and racial equality inspire the philanthropic activities of New Mountain Climbers.  A giving circle and donor advised fund, The New Mountain Climbers is a group of African American philanthropists who have joined forces to focus on the needs of present and future leaders in Montgomery County, Virginia.  Read More…

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Facts & Figures

  • We dedicate over 16 percent of our economy—$2 trillion a year—to health care. On a per-person basis, our health care costs are 50 percent higher than the second most costly nation.
  • As of 2005, 22% of all children in the US were insured by government-sponsored health care programs--the second most common healthcare coverage for children
  • Estimated giving in 2006 reached $295.02 billion, representing 2.2% of the gross domestic product.
  • In 2004, only 43% of poor single mothers (with custody of their children) received child support. 
  • 75% of the world's energy is consumed in urban areas


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