a little LIFT
Check out this amazing program created by the team at Blueprints to give a little LIFT to their community!
Blueprints has created a crowd funding site specific for needs in their community through utilizing DCED discretionary funds. This fantastic website is another resource for the Blueprints team to make an impact and break barriers.
Blueprints identifies that a program participant has hit a barrier to self-reliance. A summary of the situation and cost to eliminate the barrier is posted on alittlelift.org. This then provide donors with an opportunity to contribute to eliminate the barrier.
Blueprints’ goal through A Little LIFT is to engage the community to eliminate barriers to self-sufficiency; NOT to solve problems.
Their participants may be enduring unemployment or underemployment, risk of homelessness, utility shut-off notices, lack of food security, lack of positive role models, unsafe housing, childcare issues, medical problems, crime in the neighborhood, domestic abuse issues, or car trouble/transportation issues.
It is a challenge to work through any one of these issues, but the people Blueprints supports are usually facing a combination of these issues all at once. This makes it harder for them to learn new skills, create a plan for the future, and make good decisions that may change the trajectory of their lives.
A Little LIFT eliminates barriers so people can continue their journey to self-sufficiency.
Now a little LIFT has seen $105,000 donated already! That has LIFTed up more than 360 families!