Funded Strategies for Income

Workforce Development

Passages Program

The Passages Program is an Austin collaboration of several organizations (Salvation Army, Caritas, LifeWorks, Safe Place, and Foundation Communities) who coordinate self-sufficiency services for homeless families and single adults. By sharing resources, the collaboration offers a network of services to bridge gaps in the continuum of care.

Ready to Work Program

The Ready to Work Program from Goodwill assists individuals with barriers to employment with finding/retaining employment in the community and increasing financial stability through the following activities: 1) Individual Job Placement Plan (IJPP) 2) Job Readiness Training.

Ready, Set, Employ Program

Through the Ready, Set, Employ program LifeWorks serves vulnerable youth populations by preparing them for successful professional employment and help identify and achieve long term employment goals.

Capital IDEA

Capital IDEA lifts working adults out of poverty and into living wage careers through education. This program connects motivated men and women to a high paying career through higher education and believes the only route out of poverty for their families is education.

Small Business Development

Micro Enterprise Development Program (MED)

MED program from BiG Austin provides long term financial stability in the community by offering a developmental approach to address the needs of potential and existing small business owners through training, technical assistance, access to marketing and lending resources.

Small Business Development Initiative

PeopleFund's Small Business Education Initiative goal is to increase the number of sustainable, effective small businesses to ultimately increase individual income.

Financial Education

Earned Income Tax Credit

Community Tax Centers is a volunteer-based service from Foundation Communities providing free quality tax preparation to low-and moderate-income individuals and families, enabling them to claim the tax credits and refunds they have earned without paying high fees to commercial tax preparers.

Making More Sense of Your Dollar

Foundation Communities offers financial education classes during weeknights and weekdays to accommodate a variety of schedules. For classes held at Foundation Communities properties, childcare is provided.

Financial Coaching

Financial Coaching offered from Foundation Communities allows clients to work specifically on the financial issues that most concern them, rather than working through a set curriculum. When clients see immediate success they are more likely to come back for another coaching appointment and are more likely to follow through on the financial goals they have set for themselves.

Saving the Dream Program

Frameworks' Saving the Dream program includes an intensive Home Buyer Education and Counseling program to make sustainable homeownership and asset building possible; a Foreclosure Intervention Counseling program to help families save homes by providing foreclosure intervention; and a Financial Literacy Education program to allow families to effectively manage their resources.

Homebuyer, Homeowner Education and Crisis Intervention Program

Austin Habitat for Humanity builds successful homeowners and engages the community to end the cycle of poverty housing. Their vision is to eradicate poverty housing through the power of homeownership. Provides homebuyer, homeowner and foreclosure prevention workshops.

Stronger Families Today Program

Stronger Families Today Program through Bastrop County Emergency Food Pantry & Support Center provides education workshops, case management and financial assistance to low-income individuals and families who are homeless and at risk of homelessness or suffering from hunger-related needs in Bastrop, Fayette, and Lee counties.