The links below provide an overview of the topics that we believe are fundamental to establishing and maintaining comprehensive collaborative initiatives to reduce poverty. Within each topic, you will find an introduction to key concepts as well as links to related resources and organizations where you can learn more.
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This page provides resources that frame poverty as a complex – rather than simple - issue, and offers research and techniques related to definitions of poverty, selection of strategies, and how success is measured, evaluated and communicated.
 Visit the Understanding Poverty page here!
Being comprehensive means addressing multiple root causes or conditions of poverty at the same time. This page explores what comprehensive strategies to reduce poverty looks like, the opportunities and challenges of developing and carrying out these strategies, and how deep and durable the changes are as a result of these efforts.
Visit the Comprehensiveness page here!
What are the roles of different sectors to reduce poverty and how can they be productively and sustainably engaged? On this page you’ll find descriptions and links about working with Business, Government, and Voices of Experience.
Visit the Working Across Boundaries page here!
Learn more from examples, research and techniques drawn from Vibrant Communities’ experience related to Leadership & Governance, Planning for Complex Issues, Evaluation for Complex Issues, Financing & Resource Development and Systems & Policy Change.
Visit the Operational Issues page here!
We’ve included resources that address four common issues related to sustainability and resiliency, what does sustainability mean; when should a collaboration be sustained or wind down, what are the challenges and opportunities of sustaining poverty reduction efforts and what can collaborations do to improve the probabilities of continuing their work?
Visit the Resiliency page here!
This page focuses on concrete ways that policy makers and funders can support place-based, collaborative and comprehensive efforts to reduce poverty. Learn more about Systems & Policy Change, Governments and Policy Change, Funders & Policy Change.
Visit the Policy Makers & Funders page here!
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