In November Empower Missouri will host its annual Anti-Poverty Advocates Summit, bringing together advocates from across the state to explore the many ways poverty impacts our neighbors’ lives, and how effective policy change can serve as a long-term solution. We’re excited to welcome Taj Suleyman to give our Tuesday keynote! About Taj Taj Suleyman is a...Lee mas

In November Empower Missouri will host its annual Anti-Poverty Advocates Summit, bringing together advocates from across the state to explore the many ways poverty impacts our neighbors’ lives, and how effective policy change can serve as a long-term solution. We’re excited to welcome Annie Watson to open the Summit with our morning keynote! About Annie...Lee mas

Empower Missouri started over 100 years ago as an annual conference, making the job of planning and executing our annual Anti-Poverty Summit even more significant. Ask any nonprofit staff and they’ll tell you that conference execution is no joke. I have to uplift our team and give them a round of applause: 2022’s return to...Lee mas

In 2018, I read Peter Temin’s book The Vanishing Middle Class. He got a lot of press coverage when the book was released, in large part because of his thesis that households who are working to escape poverty really need about 20 years without catastrophe. He theorized that on an individual level, it is sometimes...Lee mas

At Empower Missouri, we know that we can change lives through effective and targeted policy change. Too many of our neighbors struggle to get their everyday needs met. Housing insecurity, hunger, over policing, historical exclusion: these negative outcomes we see today are a result of intentional, targeted, often racist policy decisions made generations ago. We...Lee mas

El hambre no es un tema partidista. Este es uno de los mensajes que se entrelazaron a lo largo de la Conferencia Building Blocks for Missouri Success que se llevó a cabo el fin de semana pasado en Columbia. ¡Fue una conferencia llena de esperanza y planes de acción para hacernos avanzar en nuestra lucha contra el hambre en nuestro estado!Lee mas

Cada año, los meses de septiembre y octubre parecen servir como temporada de conferencias. En los últimos 60 días, cada miembro del personal de Empower Missouri ha asistido al menos a una cumbre, reunión o conferencia sobre una variedad de temas. JMO, nuestra directora ejecutiva, y Christine Woody, nuestra líder sénior de política y defensa, asistieron recientemente a ...Lee mas