ACHIEVEability

Target demographics: The community, business owners, single-parent households, housing insecure families, food insecure families, community development

Direct beneficiaries per year: 2,800 people

Geographic areas served: West Philadelphia

Programs: Human and social capital development: achieveability provides comprehensive services to participants in its family self-sufficiency program. Key to our approach is for parents to earn their college degrees as a way out of poverty. To help families advance in terms of education, parenting, finances and personal development; we provide services such as: case management, life skills workshops for adults and youth, employment services, a computer center, tutoring and access to financial aid, child care and transit subsidies, counseling, and family enrichment activities.

property development and management:achieveabillity managed low-income housing through january 2015 for purposes of support and furthering the fssp program. A major step in responsibly addressing our fiscal management obligations was making the decision to align with mission first housing group (mfhg) on january 1, 2015. Sharing the core values of achieveability, mfhg develops and manages affordable, safe and sustainable homes for people in need, with a focus on the vulnerable. This alliance allowed achieveabillity to bolster our organizational infrastructure in the areas of management experience to include real estate management, financial reporting, operational procedures, as well as government contracting and compliance. This, in turn, provided an opportunity for achieveability to refocus on investing our financial resources directly to our self-sufficiency and community service programs. Aligning with mfhg has provided achieveability with the opportunity to separate from areas of business (property development & management) that have proven a drain on our resources subsequently resulting in the need to strategically separating ourselves from. Having materially completed the strategic separation, the losses we have presented in "property management" in 2016 and 2015 reflect the financial losses we had to incur in order effectively conclude our participation in those business sectors.