Poverty Solutions

  1. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

  4. 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.

  5. 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.