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The Dave and Lucille Packard Foundation includes the Self-Sufficiency Standard in Kidsdata.org, a database tool providing access to information about the health and well-being of children across California.
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The Dave and Lucille Packard Foundation includes the Self-Sufficiency Standard in Kidsdata.org, a database tool providing access to information about the health and well-being of children across California.
The United Way of Butler County has established a goal of reducing the number of families and individuals living below the self-sufficiency standard by 30% by the year 2030 – “30 by 30,” and has allocated funds to local nonprofits working towards this goal.
In Washington State, the Workforce Development Council of Seattle-King County adopted the Self-Sufficiency Standard as its official measure of self-sufficiency and continues to use the Standard as a program evaluation benchmark.
The Leichtag Foundation in San Diego used a self-sufficiency grant program aimed at giving people the tools they need to break the cycle of poverty. As of 2020, the Leichtag Foundation is no longer supporting grant-making in Self-Sufficiency.
The Women’s Fund of Mississippi revamped their grant-making and advocacy work to focus on the overall goal of economic self-sufficiency for women, using the Self Sufficiency Standard as the underlying blueprint for these changes.
The United Way of the Bay Area and Y&H Soda Foundation are evaluating the success of their grantees by how effectively they are able to move families toward self-sufficiency, as defined by the Self-Sufficiency Standard.
Monroe Community College, located in the Finger Lakes Region in New York, used the Self-Sufficiency Standard as a benchmark to measure occupational wage outcomes in their report Measuring Middle-Skills Occupational Gaps.
The San Diego Women’s Foundation focused its 2013-2014 grant cycle on proposals that would help families move toward self-sufficiency.
In 2012, the United Way of Erie County challenged their community to reduce the number of families who cannot meet their basic needs by 10,000 before the year 2025.
The Wyoming Women’s Foundation funds programs that help women advance their ability to live at or above the Wyoming Self Sufficiency Standard for their family composition and county of residence.