Impact
2023 Annual Report: MILESTONES
Released April 3, 2024
Featuring the findings, lessons and stories from our 2023 program year, including key organizational highlights. Click here to read more
NEW! Five Year Strategic Plan
Released on July 19, 2023
2022 Annual Report:
MOTIVATION
Released on April 4, 2023!
Click on the image (or download here) to read about the Platform of Hope’s fourth program year, working with four cohorts of families throughout 2022. We’re proud to share out the overall themes and stories from the past year.
2021 Annual Report
Released on April 5, 2022!
Learn more about the data, themes and stories from our third program year. Click the image to read the report or click here to download it.
The Platform of Hope in 2021: Recovery and Hope
Learn more about our 2021 efforts from this video, created in June 2021
2019-2020 Annual Report
Click the image to read the full report or click here to download it.
Learn about our initial COVID-19 Response in this June 2020 video
“Building Social Capital in the time of Social Distancing”
Read about our inaugural pilot year
Click the image to review our 2018-2019 annual report
In Their Own Words
4 platform of hope cohort a families share what the poh experience has meant to them (May 2019)
Founding Vision
From the Platform of Hope’s development phase in early 2018
The Platform of Hope is a collaborative approach to address the gentrification of resource- rich communities; redress the structural and racial barriers that prevent low-income adults from building wealth and well-being; and connect the varied health and learning needs of children from low-income families from prenatal to early-childhood and through to college graduation.
The Platform of Hope is a collective model that is innovative and urgently needed:
• The Platform of Hope model is predicated on the knowledge that all individuals and families possess resources, skills and creative solutions. In the Platform of Hope model, families with low-incomes define their own life goals, in areas such as income security, education, and housing to mention a few. Acting as a cohort, the families will support each other and leverage their social capital to reach their defined goals.
• The Platform of Hope intentionally confronts systems that create and perpetuate racial inequities. Individually, the collaborating organizations respond to these inequities. Collectively, we can advocate for and enact real systems change.
• In addition to the partners on the Steering Committee, the Platform of Hope engages many more nonprofit organizations to provide services that the families tell us they need such as workforce development and legal services. The families of The Platform of Hope will have direct access to the services provided by the nonprofit partners to support the pursuit of their goals.
• The Platform of Hope model is data driven. The Allied Partners have agreed to establish a dashboard of shared goals, targets, measures, and progress indicators for the Platform of Hope and during the pilot; we will collect data from the families across the targeted outcomes.
• The initial cohort in the Adams Morgan neighborhood is only the beginning. The Platform of Hope is creating a model that can effectively be replicated in the DC Metropolitan region and beyond.