Systems Change Incubation

Step Up Silicon Valley fosters innovative, entrepreneurial programs that reduce poverty in Santa Clara County. SUSV has incubated programs by collaborating with organizations in each of these focus areas:

Pay for Success

Pay for Success is an innovative approach to financing social services that funds what works. This new model implements performance-based contracting between the government and service providers in which funds are more wisely allocated based on successful outcomes rather than the number of services provided.

1,000 Out of Poverty

The 1,000 Out of Poverty effort seeks to change how service providers work together to help clients move out of poverty. Our approach optimizes the collective impact of local nonprofits through common self-sufficiency outcome measures, a shared database, networking, and inter-agency collaboration.

Franklin McKinley Women’s Initiative

The Franklin McKinley Women’s Initiative (FMWI) began as a pilot project in 2011 that was designed to help low-income women reach self-sufficiency by providing them with the knowledge and tools needed to start their own businesses.

Franklin McKinley Children’s Initiative

The Franklin McKinley Children’s Initiative (FMCI) provides children impacted by poverty with access to education, from pre-K to college, by embracing a holistic approach to building communities.