Freedom from poverty is a human right, and the realization of this freedom requires a comprehensive vision and plan.  To that end, Heartland Alliance has created the From Poverty to Opportunity Campaign: Realizing Human Rights in Illinois, an initiative of the Illinois Poverty Summit, that works to bring together a broad range of residents from the most affected communities throughout the state as well as advocates and policy leaders to develop and advocate for a poverty elimination strategy anchored to human rights standards that will reduce extreme poverty in Illinois by half by the year 2015.                      

New Report: Poverty Elimination Strategies That Work

Poverty Elimination Strategies that Work: A Human Rights Tool Kit for Addressing Poverty in Your Community, highlights numerous local solutions that are currently being implemented in communities around the state and the country. This report is meant to be a resource to assist neighborhood groups, faith communities, service providers, policymakers, and others, in creating solutions to fundamentally address poverty. The report provides over 50 Poverty Elimination Strategies that Work along with hyperlinks to sources which contain information about highlighted solutions and additional resources that may be useful in developing and implementing poverty elimination strategies locally.

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Send us an email at frompovertytoopportunity@heartlandalliance.org or call Doug Schenkelberg at 773-336-6084.

This project is made possible by the generous support of The Mertz-Gilmore Foundation, The Libra Foundation, and The Woods Fund of Chicago.