Fighting Poverty. Accelerating Impact.
Slingshot Memphis has addressed this by developing a new, standardized methodology to measure poverty-fighting effectiveness. By providing previously unavailable insights about poverty-fighting outcomes, we empower decision makers to allocate financial and other resources toward solutions that produce effective outcomes for our neighbors experiencing poverty.
We believe that as our community embraces this new methodology—or “Poverty-Fighting Feedback Loop”—we can measurably reduce poverty and accelerate access to equitable opportunities for all Memphians.
Unlike business, medicine, and many other sectors that have objective processes for measuring outcomes, the poverty-fighting ecosystem simply hasn’t. This has made it nearly impossible to know which programs and services most effectively reduce social and economic gaps.
Slingshot has addressed this by developing a new, standardized methodology to measure poverty-fighting effectiveness. By providing previously unavailable insights about poverty-fighting outcomes, we empower decision makers to allocate financial and other resources toward solutions that produce effective outcomes for our neighbors experiencing poverty. We believe that as our community embraces this new methodology—or “Poverty-Fighting Feedback Loop”—we can measurably reduce poverty and accelerate access to equitable opportunities for all Memphians.
Slingshot is a poverty-fighting center of influence that’s igniting a movement to revolutionize the way we fight poverty.
To achieve our mission, we perform three primary functions:
IMPACT STUDY
Work with poverty-fighting organizations to study their effectiveness
OPPORTUNITIES FOR GREATER IMPACT
Identify opportunities to enhance the outcomes of poverty-fighting organizations
ACCELERATE IMPACT FUND
Invest directly to amplify high-impact programs and services
Slingshot Memphis is a poverty-fighting center of influence that’s igniting a movement to revolutionize the way we fight poverty.
IMPACT STUDY
Work with poverty-fighting organizations to study their effectiveness
OPPORTUNITIES FOR GREATER IMPACT
Identify opportunities to enhance the outcomes of poverty-fighting organizations
ACCELERATE IMPACT FUND
Invest directly to amplify high-impact programs and services
Slingshot cannot achieve this mission on its own, however, as stakeholders from across the poverty-fighting ecosystem must embrace an outcomes-driven approach in order to create equitable opportunities for personal and economic success for all Memphians.
There are numerous ways you can support this movement:
Use Slingshot’s Impact Profile summaries and other reports in your efforts
Encourage other stakeholders to incorporate Slingshot’s reports into their work
Invite poverty-fighting organizations to consider working alongside Slingshot
Invest in Slingshot’s Accelerate Impact Fund to support poverty-fighting organizations based on their effectiveness
