Oportunidades de Providência Central

Four key principles will guide CPO investments in initiatives:

1. Scale: Investments that contribute to policy change or an expansion of our reach will be prioritized. The idea is to ensure that more people in Central Providence — particularly those in households who have been historically marginalized — have access to quality services.
2. Leveraging: Investments that leverage additional government or private funds will be prioritized because of the impact such additional resources can offer to programs in Central Providence.
3. Innovation: We will be able to fund catalytic projects and/or innovative approaches to address systemic barriers, in large part because of the flexibility that comes with unrestricted funding.
4. Community Engagement: By truly listening to community members about their lived experiences, we expect to identify innovative approaches to existing barriers and to address gaps that have existed in part because of systems that have not been responsive enough to community voice.

ONE Neighborhood Builders is the “backbone” or convening organization for both the CP-HEZ and CPO. The primary goals of the CP-HEZ and CPO are to address community inequities by identifying barriers and solutions, lifting community voice, and creating increased access to opportunities.

Recognizing and uplifting community voice is a key piece of how the CP-HEZ operates. The CP-HEZ holds regular “Collaborative” meetings that include Community Health Workers and stakeholders who report on critical community needs. CPO relies on the Collaborative’s input as well as on input from our own Resident Advisory Council as we work together to propose and create solutions.

Systemic racism and discrimination have led to economic insecurity and lack of opportunity for too many people, especially in the ZIP codes where we focus our efforts. Our CPO work is intended to create more equity in Central Providence by addressing systemic barriers and finding solutions to create enduring change.

Social mobility is the movement of a person, people, family, household, or group on a social ladder or position in society.

Economic mobility represents the ability of a person, people, family, household, or group to increase their income and/or build generational wealth. Essentially, economic mobility is the likelihood that children can achieve a higher standard of living than the household or family into which they were born.

Evaluation and Learning is embedded in the work of CPO so that our evaluation activities are in line with CPO project goals and milestones. We are collecting important community data and documenting what we are learning throughout this two-year initiative. CPO evaluations are intended to assess the short-term impact of our work and to identify ways the initiative could be expanded or replicated.