Book tells of local efforts to combat poverty

Bonnie Bazata, executive director of the St. Joseph County (Indiana) Bridges Out of Poverty Initiative, has contributed a chapter to “From Vision to Action: Best Practices to Reduce the Impact of Poverty in Communities, Education, Healthcare, and More.”

The book, published in October by aha! Process, includes stories of South Bend and 10 other communities nationwide that are seeing impact in different fields from the Bridges Out of Poverty framework. The program operates in more than 80 communities.

“Bridges Out of Poverty starts with a set of ideas about how to think about the dynamics of poverty and economic class and what we can do differently,” says Bazata, who started the community effort eight years ago when she was working at Saint Mary’s College.

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