Equal Measure’s report for Robin Hood’s Mobility Learning and Action Bets (Mobility LABs) documents the initiative’s first year of implementing community-driven solutions to sustainability lift families out of poverty.
Mobility LABs is a national investment led by Robin Hood and supported by multiple funding partners. The initiative defines and measures mobility from poverty across three dimensions: economic stability, power and autonomy, and belonging and inclusion.
Equal Measure’s learning and evaluation report summarizes progress across the dimensions for the nine Mobility LABs projects’ activities in Implementation Year 1 (early 2021 and into 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.
In Year 1, anchor partners focused on establishing the foundation for long-term, sustainable economic mobility in their communities. Building from the planning phase, their work prioritized engaging and building relationships with:
- Local, trusted, and experienced cross-sector community-based organizations, and, in many cases, formalizing those relationships into partnerships
- Local community residents, through various forms of outreach and engagement and by providing programs and services to develop skills and meet immediate needs
The report highlights examples of how anchor partners made positive changes as a result of partnership building, community engagement, and direct services. It also offers considerations in areas such as systems transformation and narrative change as Mobility LABs enters its last two years of implementation.
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