Inspiring & Equipping Communities To End Poverty The mission of Move the Mountain Leadership Center (MTM) is to inspire and equip communities to end poverty. Move the Mountain Leadership Center provides transformational leadership and planning programs to align leaders and their organizations to high impact strategies that can reduce and eventually end poverty. The Circles Campaign™ was initiated by Move the Mountain to provide transformational leaders a structure to engage the community in ending poverty. Join us on Facebook
 

What are Circles Results?

NEWSFLASH: Read the newly updated 2010 Results Report in its entirety.

In our first Circles pilot, early results demonstrate that for every $1 spent on the program, $2 in welfare and food stamp subsidies was returned to the state, and $4 to the community as new earned income.    

In our current analysis, the first group of 33 families to complete Getting Ahead and six months of Circles has just posted its six-month, post-Getting Ahead results:  88% increase in earned income, 54% of the Circle Leaders indicated that they had obtained a better paying job, 30% decrease in use of welfare benefits, 56% increase in assets, and 125% increase in “people in my life I can count on.” The median income rose from $637/month to $1200, average assets went from $604 to $941, welfare benefits dropped from $436/month to $306/month, and the average number of “friends I can count on” went from four to nine. The graphs below are a sampling of our most recent results


Median Income For All Participants

Comparison Of Income Changes


CCI, data management for Circles™


Comprehensive Case Management (pdf format)