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NCAP - BOOST: Mobility for Families Through 2Gen Principles & Community-Driven Pathways

Wednesday, October 16, 2024
12:00 pm1:00 pm

People's Equal Action and Community Effort, Inc. (or PEACE, Inc., the Community Action Agency for Onondaga County/Syracuse New York) and Kresge Foundation staff will share best practices from the Boosting Opportunities for Social and Economic Mobility for Families (BOOST) Initiative. Through community college/human service nonprofit partnerships, BOOST used Aspen Ascend/2Gen approaches, career pathways, and racial equity principles to offer holistic solutions for low-income families. Focus will be placed on BOOST Syracuse, a city tapped for transformative federal infrastructure/CHIPs Act investments and possessing some of the highest rates of poverty/child poverty in the nation.

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