Stand together to break the cycle of poverty.
Will you join us?
For too long, millions of Americans have been trapped in the cycle of poverty. It's time to think differently.
Stand Together Foundation offers a better way: supporting bottom-up solutions that empower those in poverty. Solutions that work.
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Announcing
The Stand Together Podcast
The Stand Together Podcast is a podcast for people who care about tackling the biggest challenges facing our country.
Insights
Our community of leaders is rethinking nonprofit management.
Discover new strategies to apply to your own organization.
"The people best suited to end injustice are those closest to it."
– Believe in People, Bottom-Up Solutions for a Top-Down World
For anyone looking around the country right now and thinking “There has to be a better way,” this book is a guide for you.
Impact
We partner with the nation’s most transformative nonprofits.
Our rigorous vetting process, management training program, and unconventional partnership model produce real results in communities nationwide.
Program
We don't just invest in organizations. We invest in changemakers.
Join other high-impact nonprofit leaders on a journey to help accelerate your program’s momentum and expand your reach.
Approach
We are building a future where everyone can realize their full potential.
Our principled, bottom-up approach outperforms traditional top-down services by believing in people and investing in their success.
Community
Find a Catalyst near you
With almost 300 nonprofit organizations across 50 states, our community of changemakers is growing each year.
“As nonprofit leaders, entrepreneurs, donors, and philanthropists, we get to choose the Empowerment Paradigm as the new standard of excellence and effectiveness. Together, we can demonstrate that control isn’t the only way to operate—and that it’s actually possible to transform more lives when our means match our ends.”
Transforming the way our country tackles poverty begins with Catalysts.
Since 2016, we have committed over $150 million to fuel the innovation of nonprofits around the country as they lead a movement to build stronger, safer communities where all people can learn, contribute, and realize their full potential. With solutions as unique as the communities they serve, our Catalysts are breaking the vicious cycle of poverty that traps far too many Americans.
For the first time, I think we can really change the way the nation thinks about addiction.
Key Issue Area
Addiction, Mental Health, and Trauma
The safety and protection of children in our society has to be all of our business. It can't just be child welfare's business.
Key Issue Area
Youth
It’s asking people what they need, and investing in that instead.
How FII is investing in families as they chart their own course out of poverty.
Key Issue Area
Economic Mobility
