Transparency, Accountability, and Progress for All
Every American deserves a fair chance to thrive in their community. Through our focus on outcomes, we exist to strengthen the American Promise— turning aspirations into strategic actions and tracking tangible progress that everyone can see and feel.
Partnering With Communities Nationwide
We help communities reclaim the American Promise by supporting place‑based, community‑led efforts that expand economic mobility and tackle inequality.
We help communities renew the American Promise by supporting place-based, community-led efforts that rely on
measurable outcomes to ensure that working Americans can thrive, not just survive.
We invest as true partners – listening, learning, and reinforcing the expertise already on the ground. By supporting shared practices and community visions, we shift power locally and ensure progress is visible, measurable, and trusted.
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We are building a movement with communities across the country who are committed to publicly tracking and working towards outcomes that renew the American Promise. By convening, funding, and collaborating with partners within the social sector, together we can ensure transparency, accountability and progress for all.
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Working Hand In Hand With Place-Based Partnerships
We partner closely with local leaders, investing in the infrastructure and capacity of community-driven initiatives to set specific, transparent, and measurable goals to improve outcomes for communities.
Our Guiding Principles
Our work is designed to drive an outcomes movement where work leads to dignity, stability, and opportunity for all. Everything we do is informed by the following principles.
A United States where families and individuals are able to thrive in their communities—ensured affordable housing, childcare, and excellent educational opportunities– is possible. Meeting the needs of all working Americans will require systemic solutions to which we are committed to.
Restoring the American Promise will require an outcomes movement: a public declaration of the outcomes that reflect the lived experience of working Americans and represent what it takes to truly thrive. Our commitment should propel a national shift in programming, funding and policies to align with a renewed vision for collective wellbeing.
Philanthropy is often a driving force for unlocking larger systemic solutions. If we can act with curiosity and conviction, philanthropy will be catalytic in moving towards a country that aligns resources, policies and systems around the outcomes that matter.
We will conduct grantmaking as partners to reinforce and advance ongoing work. We approach our partnerships with a learning mindset, acknowledging that those doing the work and proximal to it are the experts.
Our 7 Domains
FCP’s funding focuses on seven interconnected outcome domains that influence whether working Americans can thrive. We work with communities who are invested in defining clear goals within these domains and working collectively to remove barriers to thriving for working Americans
Health—foundational to every other outcome—is a daunting and complex challenge for our country. Access, cost, and quality are all pressing issues for Americans.
We believe that for Americans to thrive, we have to treat mental health as a central concern, on par with housing and healthcare. That’s why mental wellbeing is a core domain for us.
We know all kinds of education are key to whether working Americans thrive, yet the link between schooling and securing a good-paying job is eroding. We must strive to improve educational outcomes and improve opportunity in order to guarantee that continuing with school leads to long-term financial security.
Childcare is, for the most part, widely available across America. The challenge is whether families can afford childcare without sacrificing financial stability. Unaffordable childcare pushes parents—especially mothers—out of the workforce, causes increased family stress, and stalls economic mobility.
Nationwide, wages are insufficient to give an individual or a family stability, to allow for meeting basic needs and building savings. There is a dire need to ensure Americans are earning a living wage—the minimum income necessary for a worker to meet basic needs, the sort of wage that breaks the cycle in which life is a daily constant struggle to survive.
Far too many Americans live constantly on the edge where even a small “wrong turn” in life through no fault of their own. Only resilience can combat the persistent one-paycheck-from-catastrophe scenario that permeates our communities.
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