OpportunityTexas
In the Spring of 2010, the Center for Public Policy Priorities and RAISE Texas, two leading Texas advocates for increased economic opportunities for low- and moderate-income Texans, teamed up to create the OpportunityTexas initiative with generous support from the Ford, F.B. Heron and Charles Stewart Mott Foundations, CFED, the Texas High School Project and Citi. The organizations joined forces to develop and advance a more comprehensive strategy to move more Texas families beyond living paycheck-to-paycheck and toward greater economic opportunity through education, saving, and asset building. The initiative has three main goals:
- Creating jobs;
- Increasing income, and
- Promoting savings.
The initiative seeks to increase college access and success through new pathways that enable more students and families to save and build assets. OpportunityTexas aims to catalyze large-scale action and innovation in these areas using statewide platforms.
To achieve broader opportunity in Texas, they are working to leverage new investments and developing new partnerships, between the business community, higher education, nonprofits, the public sector, philanthropy, employers, and Texas students in kindergarten through college.