From 2019–2024, Equal Measure served as learning and evaluation partner for Robin Hood Mobility Learning and Action Bets (LABs), a community-driven initiative to sustainability lift families out of poverty. Our reports share learnings from Mobility LABs partners and their work to transform communities.
Year 1 Learning and Evaluation Report
This annual report summarizes progress across the dimensions for the nine Mobility LABs projects’ activities in Implementation Year 1 (mid-2021 to mid-2022). Insights come from a Learning Tool survey of anchor partners—organizations that received funds directly from Robin Hood—and in-depth interviews with anchor partners and organizations that collaborate with them.
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Year 2 Learning and Evaluation Report
This annual report documents the changes resulting from strategies implemented across the nine anchor partners during Implementation Year 2 of Mobility LABs (mid-2022 to mid-2023). The partners reported meaningful change across three mobility constructs—economic success, power and autonomy, and sense of belonging—as well as emerging changes in narratives and local policy.
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Learnings from Community-Driven Economic Mobility
A final report for Mobility LABs looks back at the five-year initiative: its beginnings with the U.S. Partnership on Mobility from Poverty, its focus on community-driven approaches and learning, and the actions anchor partners took toward long-term change. The report includes recommendations for advancing community-driven systems change and calls to action for funders of economic mobility.
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