Russell Sage Teams Up With Robin Hood to Host First Poverty Solutions Conference
On Monday, February 6, Robin Hood, New York's largest poverty-fighting organization, and the Russell Sage Foundation, the nation's premier foundation devoted to social science research, will host their first annual Poverty Solutions Conference. The event is an invitation-only conference focused on developing new approaches to reducing poverty.
Unlike other conferences, there will be no audience - only participants. Four of the most highly regarded researchers in the country will present innovative ideas related to poverty fighting. Then, the invitees - a cross-disciplinary group of leaders from academia, government, non-profits, corporations and foundations - will begin to work to translate them into concrete interventions funders can support...