Ending Poverty
our Mission
The Rochester-Monroe Anti-Poverty Initiative (RMAPI) is a multi-sector community collaborative with a goal to improve quality of life by reducing poverty and increasing self-sufficiency.
Mission statement
The Rochester-Monroe Anti-Poverty Initiative (RMAPI) is a multi-sector community collaborative with a goal to improve quality of life by reducing poverty and increasing self-sufficiency. To do this, RMAPI is focused on:
- increasing income
- making basic needs more affordable and accessible
- lowering concentrations of poverty
Pervasive, long-standing, deeply rooted poverty is the greatest crisis the Rochester area has ever faced. Without a new approach, it will continue to get worse. RMAPI has brought together a coalition of the willing, organizations and individuals from across all sectors working together to change the systems that create and perpetuate poverty.
What Guides Us
RMAPI’s work began in early 2015 with extensive community engagement, research and a rigorous design process that created a roadmap for addressing poverty. Through this work, RMAPI identified three key principles to inform the work going forward and serve as a guide for community decision-making:
- Addressing Structural Racism
- Addressing Trauma, and
- Building and Supporting Our Community
RMAPI serves as the guardian of these Guiding Principles, spreading them across our community and helping coalition members adopt them within their own organizations.
