Move the Mountain Leadership Center
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Move the Mountain Leadership Center (MTM) was founded in 1992 to inspire and equip communities to end poverty. Their vision is that all American families will have the education, economic opportunity and community support they need in order to thrive. MTM provides training, technical assistance, consulting and coaching to leaders and communities who are focused on ending poverty.
[edit] CirclesTM Campaign
CEO Scott Miller is currently touring the country to implement The CirclesTM Campaign, a new initiative designed by MTM to help 1,000 low income families find paths out of poverty and to document the challenges and victories of this process. The stories and research from this initiative will be used to inspire and equip national, state, and community leaders to expand their local and national intention and capacity for reducing and eventually eliminating poverty. Based on the results, leaders from across the nation can design a new, coherent and powerful social contract between hard-working, play-by-the-rules families, local communities and government. The new contract can accelerate solutions to reducing and eventually ending poverty in the United States.
Circles Initiatives are in progress in cities across the country. A Circle is comprised of a family working to get out of poverty and two to four community allies, people who are willing to befriend the family and support their way out of poverty. Local Circle initiatives have three goals: 1) invite the community to join the human service system in helping people out of poverty, 2) inspire and equip the community to eradicate poverty, 3) develop genuine and lasting relationships across socioeconomic class lines with an intention to facilitate low-income people moving permanently out of poverty.
The three objectives for The CirclesTM Campaign are:
Assist 1000 families completely out of poverty, Carefully document the steps taken to help them out of poverty and any barriers they encountered(their own internal barriers as well as community and government policy barriers), Help leaders develop a new social contract draft that outlines what a community, state and nation can and should do to assure hard-working families can thrive. Select agencies have committed to pilot the process within their communities. The lessons learned by these agencies will be carefully documented in order to know how to go to scale across the nation. Since 1996, foundations, local, state, and federal government have invested over $5 million in testing the CirclesTMapproach. MTM, Aha Process and participating Community Action Associations will promote the campaign until we have secured 1000 CirclesTM.
[edit] Partners
MTM is joined by Dr. Ruby K. Payne and Phil DeVol, authors of two best selling books: A Framework of Understanding Poverty by Ruby K. Payne and Bridges out of Poverty: Strategies for Professionals and Communities by Ruby Payne and Phil Devol. In concert with her organization, aha! Process, Ruby and Phil are actively engaged in training communities nationally about poverty. Scott Miller, in 2007 released his book 'Until It's Gone. Until It's Gone introduces CirclesTM, a new action plan that joins the resources of individuals, organizations, communities, and government to eradicate poverty.
