They spend a year learning about poverty in their area, talking with the community. That is to say, their focus is not on how do we give poor people food so they don’t starve. It is how do we move people out of poverty. Each town’s poverty is different. Paul Born, the head of the institute, emphasizes that the crucial thing these communitywide collective impact structures do is change attitudes.

Source: New York Times April 04, 2019 23:26 UTC