Community Free Resources

Documents (PDF)

Articles

• 12 Thinking Tools for Bridges Out of Poverty Initiatives

• An Additive Model

• Bridges Out of Poverty Continuum Materials

• Community Sustainability Results

• DeVol’s State of the Address: Bridges Out of Poverty Community of Practice Model

• How Poverty Impacts Cognition and Learning

• Moving from Middle Class to Situational Poverty in the Present Economy

• Platform for Economic Justice

• Toward a Deeper Understanding of Issues Surrounding Poverty

• Using the Hidden Rules of Class to Create Sustainable Communities

• What Can Legislatures Do to Address Poverty?  They Can Use a Human Development Model that Results in the Development of Resources.

• What Can the Faith Community Do to Address Poverty?

• Where Do We Go from Here?

Five Examples from Bridges Out of Poverty Work

• Community Sustainability Grid

• Hart Risley Study

• Mental Model of Poverty

• Social Capital Mental Model

• Tyranny of the Moment

Resources

• 11 Resources Infographic

• A description of a complete evaluation package for Getting Ahead at very reasonable costs

• Addressing the Effects of High-Poverty Neighborhoods

• aha! Process Disaster Recovery Model

• American Bar Association Pro Bono Brochure: Assisting Clients in Poverty

• Bridges Out of Poverty: Compassion Coalition and Bridges

• Bridges Out of Poverty: Hard Differentiators

• Bridges Out of Poverty: Ten Core Constructs

• Build emotional resources to own more of yourself

• 2015 Census Data (Released in 2016) (PDF)

• 2015 Census Data (Released in 2016) (PowerPoint)

• Community Sustainability Grid

• Creating Relationships: A Framework for Understanding Poverty Excerpt Chapter 9

• Quiz: Find Out If You Know the Hidden Rules of Class

• Social Risk Factors

• Study Guide: Bridges Out of Poverty

• UFE Charts for Mod 4 in Getting Ahead Workbook and Getting Ahead Facilitator Notes

• What makes Bridges and Getting Ahead work for individuals, organizations, and community collaborative (Part 1)

• Enhancing the Creativity of the Bridges Community of Practice (Part II)

Sample Brochures, Invitations, and Other Forms for Bridges and Getting Ahead Events and Programs

• Invitation to a Bridges to Sustainable Communities (B120) event provide by Jamie Oberly from West Central Missouri Community Action Agency

•  Sample invitation to a Bridges to Sustainable Communities workshop from Carroll County Ohio