Louisiana Poverty Initiative
Poverty is the root of the economic, social and environmental deficiencies, undermining efforts to shift the economies of the states in the mid-south region into diversified sectors such as technology, advanced sciences, and entertainment. For this reason, the Poverty Initiative will actively pursue partnerships to promote micro-enterprises, entrepreneurship, workforce development, and contribute to reversing the current human capital deficit in the mid-south region, especially among our most vulnerable citizens.
Our goals:
- Change the fate of the mid-south region by providing new opportunities for collaboration between community, industry, and higher education
- Expand the knowledge on a broad range of issues related to poverty and public policy
- Form mentoring programs
- Transform scholarly research by giving researchers the advantage to connect with industry and community
- Develop new course work to guide and mentor a new breath of multidisciplinary scholars
- Extend the finding of research through the interaction and collaboration with community partners
- Enhance the ability of the community to use and understand research based initiatives to change their quality of life
- Connect funders with projects that have a solid impact
- Inform policy makers
- Redirect the attention of the nation to areas of real need
