Our Mission

By leveraging the extensive networks of our partners, we facilitate the Economic Self-Reliance of millions of families throughout the world in the following ways:

  • Addressing Poverty Through Economic Self-Reliance:

    Instead of focusing on poverty, we focus on self-reliance. By facilitating self-reliance, we help families remove themselves completely from the effects of impending setbacks that could otherwise be devastating.

  • Providing an Economic Self-Reliance Model:

    We provide our partners with a universal self-reliance model that can help each organization most effectively accomplish its mission.

  • Plugging the Research Gap:

    As nonprofits, many of our partner organizations do not always have the resources to conduct research to help them serve their clients most effectively. Through our team of researchers, the ESR Center plugs the research gap to help our partners succeed.

  • Becoming the Clearinghouse for Economic Self-Reliance:

    ESR Center is working to become the clearinghouse of content, information, and connections for anyone interested in economic self-reliance.