Your neighborhood shouldn’t limit your health, happiness, or economic outcomes.

With an action orientation to creating connected, resilient, thriving communities Impact employs a multidimensional approach to systems change investing in both people and place over time. Impact’s work is grounded in the creation of environmental, emotional, and interpersonal safety with the consideration of significant adversity in individual, family, and community histories. Targeted mechanisms of change include:

• Elevation of community leadership and community self-determination.

• Investment in programs and activities that foster greater social cohesion and collective efficacy.

• Increased economic prosperity though the creation of pathways to careers and wealth creation.

• Stable and sustainable housing.

• Creative transformation of deteriorating public spaces and structures to improve quality of neighborhood life.

• Innovation though adaptation of evidence-based interventions.

• Comprehensive planning and implementation.

• Recognition and utilization of the “power-with” partners to achieve goals.

OUR MISSION

We are a community action organization mobilizing people and resources to create connected, resilient, thriving communities.