The Stand Together Foundation, the rebranded network of nonprofits funded by Charles Koch and other conservatives, has announced a $30 million initiative to help organizations scale solutions for addressing poverty.

Through the Catalyst Impact Partners initiative, Stand Together seeks to accelerate the impact of nonprofits utilizing an empowerment approach to tackling poverty and transform how society thinks about addressing poverty. Partners will receive a grant of up to $300,000 over three years, as well as Principle Based Management coaching and consulting.

The initiative has selected 25 partners, with the goal of supporting 100 nonprofits by 2025. Initial partners include Found Village, which leverages adult volunteers and mentors to help youth in foster care regain the ability to trust others; JUST Community, which seeks to build resilient communities by making loans to low-income female entrepreneurs; Our House, which seeks to empower homeless and near-homeless families and individuals to succeed; Prison Yoga Project, which brings trauma-informed yoga practices to incarcerated people with a goal of reducing reincarceration; and the Women’s Bean Project, which works to enable chronically unemployed women to build self-sufficiency through full-time transitional work in its social enterprise.

“Our Catalyst partners take a unique approach to helping people overcome barriers that is anchored in a strong belief in people,” said Stand Together executive director Evan Feinberg. “This initiative is about deepening our partnership so that Catalysts can scale their reach, better understand their impact, and ultimately transform the way society thinks about addressing social barriers. If these organizations continue to grow in their effectiveness, and everyone in the country hears about what they are doing, we can transform the entire social sector in America.”

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