SaverLife Selected by Stand Together Foundation as One of the Most Transformative Nonprofits in the Country
SaverLife joins a highly selective community of nonprofits working to break the cycle of poverty
San Francisco, CA, January 11, 2022 – SaverLife.org is proud to announce it has been selected to participate in Stand Together Foundation’s Catalyst Program, a management training and peer-learning program to help nonprofits grow, scale, and replicate their success. SaverLife is one of 14 nonprofits chosen to join the growing community of over 220 organizations across all 50 states, transforming the lives of more than one million Americans through bottom-up empowerment.
SaverLife was selected among hundreds of nonprofit organizations through an extensive vetting process and accepted into the program after a rigorous evaluation. Nonprofits joining Stand Together Foundation’s Catalyst Program are recognized for disrupting the status quo, demonstrating “outside-the-box” thinking, and embracing community-driven and people-centered approaches. Program criteria also include proven outcomes and the potential for scale and cultural impact.
“This group of 14 leaders represents incredible innovation in the nonprofit sector,” said Evan Feinberg, executive director, Stand Together Foundation. “They are already challenging status quo approaches and helping individuals transform their lives in their communities. Together, we hope to deepen their impact both in their communities and across the country.”
“It is truly an honor to be included in the Stand Together Catalyst Program,” says Leigh Philips, SaverLife CEO. “With a community of over 600,000 members nationwide, we are poised for significant growth. The management training provided by the Stand Together Foundation will undoubtedly help us scale our impact alongside our fellow cohort members over the next six months.”
The Catalyst Program is a six-month management and peer-learning training program. The experience will equip SaverLife’s leaders with new tools and approaches to deepen its impact and expand its reach. The program serves as an on-ramp to long-term partnership with Stand Together Foundation, including principles-based management coaching, leadership development, operational support, and access to a community of entrepreneurial peers, influential philanthropists, and business leaders.
SaverLife will join 13 other social entrepreneur-led organizations in its cohort experience which officially kicks off on March 22, 2022. The following is a full list of the latest organizations to join Stand Together Foundation’s Catalyst Community:
CarePortal (Kansas City, MO)
CarePortal connects churches, caseworkers, and community institutions to provide real-time support to families in need. CarePortal’s innovative software empowers case workers to submit requests on behalf of their clients and activate local volunteers to support and build relationships with the families. CarePortal leverages this community involvement as a preventative solution for the nearly 270,000 children in the U.S. entering the foster care system. CarePortal offers a holistic, community-driven approach to provide direct support to vulnerable children and families.
The Colossian Forum (Grand Rapids, MI)
The Colossian Forum addresses toxic forms of polarization in American churches by transforming conflicts into growth opportunities. Many faith-based institutions lack experience navigating polarizing topics, leaving them unable to bridge divides, let alone foster reconciliation in their communities. The Colossian Forum provides leadership training and small-group curricula on a variety of cultural topics based upon a framework of worship that helps Christians transform conflicts into discipleship, not division.
EforAll (Lowell, MA)
EforAll partners with community leaders in mid-sized cities to help minority and women entrepreneurs to successfully start businesses and achieve financial self-sufficiency. By providing tools, networks, and know-how in its year-long Accelerator program, EforAll empowers its participants to launch and grow businesses while revitalizing their communities.
Essential Partners (Cambridge, MA)
Essential Partners demonstrates that our communities are stronger when we can talk about our differences with honesty, complexity, and dignity. Working against divisiveness and polarization, Essential Partners trains individuals to facilitate healthier discussions on contentious topics. By cultivating curiosity and openness, Essential Partners is investing in our society’s ability to exchange ideas, create genuinely inclusive communities, and contribute to human progress.
Found Village (Cincinnati, OH)
Found Village leverages a community of adult volunteers and mentors to help youth in foster care regain the ability to trust others. While traditional mentorship models emphasize one-on-one relationships that can end prematurely and undermine the youth’s ability to trust, Found Village begins with a single mentoring relationship and then extends that trust to a wider network, providing family-like support that acts like a “village” around each youth. Found Village engagement extends into early adulthood, ensuring all youth are connected to a community and have been mobilized out of poverty.
Frederick Douglass Project for Justice (Washington, D.C.)
The Frederick Douglass Project for Justice runs a multistate prison visitation program that provides opportunities for members of the public to meet and speak to those directly impacted by the criminal legal system in the U.S. The program’s conversations are structured to build empathy and grow understanding for all involved in order to drive meaningful personal and systemic changes.
Hope Renovations (Carrboro, NC)
At a moment when the skilled trades are facing a major labor shortage in the U.S., Hope Renovations is helping fill that gap by training under- or unemployed women to provide home repairs and renovations for homeowners who wish to age in place. Hope Renovations’ approach includes coaching, counseling, and support to help every student in its apprenticeship program build their own unique career path.
Inside Circle (Sacramento, CA)
Inside Circle creates opportunities for incarcerated and formerly incarcerated individuals to reduce recidivism and violence in their communities. The criminal justice system suffers from a lack of effective in-custody rehabilitation programs. Inside Circle organizes weekly healing circles to address trauma, foster personal accountability, and empower inmates to gain self-agency around prosocial lifestyle choices.
Prison Yoga Project (Bolinas, CA)
Prison Yoga Project brings trauma-informed yoga practices to thousands of incarcerated people around the country, promoting stress and anger management and mindfulness to reduce the likelihood of reincarceration. Prison Yoga Project's unique offering addresses unresolved traumas that can contribute to criminal behavior and emphasizes improved mental health and personal rehabilitation for every participant.
SailFuture (St. Petersburg, FL)
Recognizing that the challenges facing foster youth and families are complex and interconnected, SailFuture provides comprehensive services and strategies to help youth overcome as many of their barriers as possible. From monthslong sailing expeditions to a private high school, SailFuture is reimagining what it means to meet the needs of youth and families through innovative sailing-based programs.
SaverLife (San Francisco, CA)
SaverLife helps people build financial security by providing cash prizes and other incentives for good saving habits. SaverLife supports the approximately 40 percent of Americans who don’t have at least $400 in savings, many of whom face systemic barriers to economic mobility. By removing these obstacles and developing good financial habits, SaverLife is unlocking new possibilities for people and families living with low incomes.
Shepherd’s House (Lexington, KY)
Shepherd’s House helps men and women find freedom from substance use disorder. It offers a variety of programming opportunities from intensive outpatient programs to 12-18-month transitional living experiences that include post-program support, career counseling, health care, and support groups. The Shepherd’s House programs are designed to promote independence from substances, and the development of life-changing tools and skills to help individuals develop and maintain a foundation for long-term recovery.
Think Tank, Inc. (Springfield, OH)
Challenging top-down approaches to poverty, Think Tank, Inc. works to amplify human stories and empower local change agents. Through poverty simulations and content guided by leaders with lived experience, Think Tank equips groups to rethink poverty and partner with those most affected to create lasting change.
Unshattered (Hopewell Junction, NY)
Unshattered provides training, employment, and a compassionate community for women who are winning their battle against addiction. To help pave the road between sobriety and long-term success after completing a residential recovery program, Unshattered provides employment where women design, create, and sell unique handbags made from premium upcycled materials. Their employment model focuses on personal and professional development so that women can thrive in recovery.
About SaverLife.org
SaverLife (formerly EARN) is a 501(c)3 non-profit on a mission—to inspire, inform, and reward the millions of Americans who need help saving money. Through engaging technologies and strategic partnerships, we give working people the methods and motivation to take control of their financial future. SaverLife has many esteemed investor partners, including Wells Fargo, Intuit Financial Freedom Foundation, JPMorgan Chase & Co., Prudential, Target Foundation, and MetLife Foundation. For more information or to join the SaverLife movement, please visit about.saverlife.org.
About Stand Together Foundation
Stand Together Foundation is committed to breaking the cycle of poverty in America by driving change from within communities. We are building a community of social entrepreneurs who believe in people, work from the bottom up, and unite with anyone to do right. Since 2016, we have committed $100 million and counting to fuel the innovation of nonprofits throughout the country to build stronger, safer communities where all people can learn, contribute, and realize their full potential. Our goal is to help nonprofit leaders maximize their impact to transform more lives out of poverty. Learn more at www.StandTogetherFoundation.org.
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