Project Equity aims to turn the tide on income and wealth gaps in low income communities by helping build economic resiliency.

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Instability(def.)
Lack of resistance to sudden
change or deterioration
{no safety net}
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What causes community
economic instability?
Income gap
• Talked about and
widely understood
• Continues to grow
Wealth gap
• ‘Safety net’
• Not as widely
understood
• Continues to grow
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Community health indicators
all tied to economic resiliency
Health
Education
Crime
Unemployment
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For healthy communities we must address the
resiliency of the local economy
Jobs + wealth
that
STAY in the community
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Why wealth?
HAVE’S
Have
resiliency,
financial
and
otherwise
HAVE-NOT’S
Teeter on the
edge with
little or no
safety net
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Financial resiliency
Opportunity
Growth
Safety net
More than
enough
None
HAVE’SHAVE-
NOT’S
We need to slow the increasing
disparity of wealth
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How can we turn the
tide?
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By developing
Businesses
within communities
that are employee-owned
that will scale
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We will break the cycle of
poverty at the
community level
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By enabling
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Stability within the
immediate family
{stable job}
{wealth through equity}
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Stability within the
extended family
{stable relatives}
{with wealth}
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Stability within the
community
{stable families}
{role models}
{cross-generational}
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It’s about more than JUST
opportunity for
individuals
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Through reducing
communities’ financial
dependency on external
factors over which they
have no control
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Communities (re) gain
self-determination
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And all of the
opportunities that come
with it
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Join us:
www.project-equity.org
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