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Reinvesting In America®
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Mission
WHY's Reinvesting In America (RIA) identifies and
champions the work of innovative grassroots hunger and
poverty organizations that promote self-reliance among the
people they serve. RIA fosters and initiates a host of
networking connections between the organizations and
funding sources, the media, U.S. government agencies,
national organizations and other grassroots organizations.
RIA actively encourages and facilitates the replication of
the most innovative and effective grassroots programs.
A Brief History:
Since RIA's inception in 1990, the program staff has
researched and evaluated many of this nation's most
successful and innovative organizations fighting hunger
and poverty on the front lines. Since the beginning, we
have worked with grassroots organizations that address the
underlying causes of hunger and poverty by providing
education, life skills, job training, community economic
development, health care, child care, housing and
transportation, among other services, to their clients and
communities in need. From homeless shelters that offer
life skills and budget literacy programs, to food banks
that offer culinary arts training classes, these
organizations are taking creative and unique approaches to
addressing community problems. RIA is interested in
organizations that go beyond charity and work with their
clients to help them regain the self-reliance and
self-esteem they need to restore their lives. At the core
of the RIA program is the RIA database, a database of
4,500 community-based organizations. Through phone and
site interviews, RIA's staff is able to gain an intimate
knowledge of how successful programs operate. This
information is then translated into a reader friendly
Program Profile that is available to the general public
(including funders, the media and other organizations)
upon request.
Many of the organizations included in RIA's database have
been the focus of much interest on the part of other
grassroots organizations, private philanthropy and the
public sector because they offer solutions to the systemic
inequities of hunger, poverty and unemployment. They are
also rebuilding communities and transforming lives.
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