Better Believers
Nearly 25,000 families and entrepreneurs own homes and small businesses because a North Carolina group called Self-Help believed in them.
This issue of Casey Connects highlights family strengthening partnerships and FAMILIES COUNT honorees as partners for supporting economic self-sufficiency for low-income families and promoting the family strengthening message as a national priority.
Believing jobs, homeownership and educational opportunity are the bedrock of healthy communities, FAMILIES COUNT honoree Self-Help provided affordable housing, reasonably priced office space, early childhood education programs and charter schools to help families thrive in racially and ethnically mixed neighborhoods. Their motto? Low income families and communities can’t share in the prosperity of this nation if they don’t own a piece of it.