The Prosperity Agenda Revenue and Competitors

At TPA, our person-centered design approach informs our belief that all people are resilient and resourceful. We challenge the dominant narrative that “the poor,” particularly people of color, are inferior, and therefore deserve to live in poverty. By directly consulting with families living in poverty, tapping both their insights and resourcefulness, TPA works to change the prevailing mental mindsets within organizations that serve families under financial stress, particularly families of color. From the TPA design process comes solutions that promote and amplify family resilience, which in turn helps counter prevailing false narratives about families living in poverty. Moreover, when organizations embed a person-centered design approach into their practice, they begin to shift their own internal bias' about what people living in poverty are capable of achieving. And, when organizations shift their own mental mindsets, they become more authentic partners to families living in poverty. This changes the organizational culture from embracing the “bottom line,” results-oriented standards of market performance, to one that is person-focused and respectful of the unique assets within each family. When new mental mindsets set in, organizations will design and deliver services based on the assumption that families are resourceful and capable, which TPA believes will increase financial security.