The Bay Area’s strength lies in our resilience. Tipping Point’s work to advance poverty solutions is driven by the belief that prosperity for all is possible. We engage in three key strategies to both achieve immediate impact and long-term change to transform our region into one where everyone thrives.
We find and fund the most promising poverty-fighting solutions.
In the Bay Area, there are thousands of organizations, nonprofit leaders, and new ideas that meaningfully contribute to our community. Our team of issue area experts rigorously vets every investment we make, ensuring we’re supporting the most promising solutions to achieve our mission.
When Tipping Point first invested in grantee Beyond 12 in 2016, they were a small, tech-based startup with a vision to increase the number of students from under-resourced communities who graduate from college. Over the years, Tipping Point provided capital and strategic partnership, helping them to increase their impact overtime. Now, Beyond 12 serves more than 96,000 students nationally and is an industry leader in using data to drive coaching and college success nationally.
We partner with organizations to tailor our investments and strengthen impact.
Removing barriers to economic mobility isn’t a one-size-fits-all approach, and that goes for organizations, too. Once we write a check, we tailor our partnership to provide support wherever it’s needed—through customized workshops, leadership development opportunities, and cohort-based programs that meet organizations and leaders where they are.
Early childhood grantee Izzi Early Education provides center-based infant-toddler care and preschool, as well as a home-visiting program, to support the healthy development of children and their caregivers. Tipping Point worked with Izzi to identify growth areas within their operations and helped them create a targeted fundraising strategy. Izzi was able to secure a grant from a new funder, which has diversified their revenue and enhanced their financial stability as part of delivering safe, nurturing early care for young children.
We investigate and change conditions that prevent people from reaching prosperity.
We’ve learned in our nearly 20 years that it’s not enough to provide an intervention only at the moment it’s needed. It’s also essential to understand the root causes of poverty and invest in ways that prevent those challenges in the first place.
Tipping Point engaged in a partnership with Emsi Burning Glass to analyze local labor market data to better understand how grantees providing skills-training programs can ensure their clients are getting trained for in-demand professions. For example, the research identified three rapidly growing occupations within the information technology sector. These roles are accessible for a range of candidates as they don’t require a college degree. With this information, skills-training programs can adapt their programs to help job seekers complete the necessary certifications and enter this growing field. Investing in labor market research informs Tipping Point grantees, and the sector as a whole, of the ways to support job seekers in landing higher-paying jobs, allowing them to flourish in their careers.
Together, we’re making the Bay Area better for all of us by investing in solutions that create transformative pathways out of poverty. Learn more about our investments that funded life-changing services in housing, early childhood, education, and employment for nearly 100,000 of our neighbors last year.
