Protect HOUSEHOLDS
Help increase incomes or reduce expenses.
What remains is a landscape of struggle — families working hard but still falling short of the storied American Dream. We're working to change this, and we need your help. Through a collaboration with Schmidt Futures, Ohio State is leading a community-wide effort and seeking your best ideas to:
Help increase incomes or reduce expenses.
Invest in neighborhoods to boost residents.
Grow local businesses and employee skills.
Dream big. Actually, dream huge. We want answers to a critical question: What's holding our families back?
With the help of the community, we'll pick the most promising ideas to develop into proposals.
The top proposals among four participating universities receive funding to bring their American Dream ideas to life.
With the help of Schmidt Futures, we're launching a program that empowers new homebuyers on the edge of the middle class to increase the value of their properties.
In 2018, philanthropic initiative Schmidt Futures challenged U.S. communities anchored by public research universities to dream up ideas to bolster the middle class and move people out of poverty. After a nationwide search, Ohio State was selected as one of four universities to join the effort.
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