Pathway To Potential and Family Services Windsor-Essex are launching a new "collective impact" project, aimed at reducing local poverty rates.
The Ontario Trillium Foundation is granting the organizations nearly $64,000 for the new initiative.
P2P Director Adam Vasey says the goal is to bring community stakeholders together and focus everyone on building towards one goal, instead of simply throwing donations to a variety of resources in the area.
He explains, "If we were to come together and say, 'We want to lift 5,000 people who are currently experiencing deep poverty and we want to move them into stable, long-term, well-paid employment,' What would it take to get us there?"
Vasey says a collective impact model will be formed over the next year, and then it will be up to the government to continue to fund it in order for Pathway To Potential to implement it and start to measure results.
