Poverty Solutions

  1. January 30, 2018

    Report recaps Poverty Solutions’ first year, lists 2018 projects

    New partnerships, programs to boost job opportunities, and raising public awareness about low-income families highlight U-M’s first-year initiative to prevent and alleviate poverty.

  2. January 17, 2018

    U-M seeks positions to help area youths develop work experience

    The university is seeking temporary positions in units across campus for its summer program that pairs Wasthenaw County youths with faculty and staff to help them gain work experience, mentorship and life skills.

  3. January 3, 2018

    New map offers snapshot of poverty, well-being in Michigan

    A new map developed by U-M’s Poverty Solutions initiative streamlines data about poverty and well-being, making it easier to understand what’s happening in Michigan counties.

  4. August 14, 2017

    Youth employment program offers mentors, life skills

    Forty area youths are working in departments across campus this summer as part of U-M’s Summer Youth Employment Program, spearheaded by the university’s Poverty Solutions initiative.

  5. March 20, 2017

    U-M seeks participation in summer youth employment program

    U-M will pilot a summer employment program to pair economically disadvantaged youth with faculty and staff to help them gain work experience, mentorship and life skills training.

  6. January 17, 2017

    Live online discussion to explore projects to prevent, alleviate poverty

    President Mark Schlissel and national poverty expert H. Luke Shaefer will lead a live video conversation on U-M’s Facebook page about the newly created Poverty Solutions at 1:15 p.m. today.

  7. January 17, 2017

    U-M announces new investments in programs to fight poverty

    Nine projects funded through grants as part of U-M’s new Poverty Solutions initiative will begin work this month to test a variety of models to ease the effects of poverty.

  8. October 5, 2016

    U-M launches initiative aimed at finding poverty solutions

    The university has launched a new initiative to address one of humanity’s most critical and seemingly intractable problems: poverty.

  9. October 5, 2016

    President Schlissel lays out initiatives for U-M to tackle societal problems

    President Mark Schlissel used his annual Leadership Breakfast to outline U-M initiatives that target societal issues ranging from poverty to academic innovation, and from sustainability to diversity.