At The Prosperity Agenda, we don’t see partnership as a list of activities to complete. We live into partnership with these principles and practices:
We center the experience of people enduring poverty.
People experiencing poverty have immense insight about how current systems and programs work and how they can get better. Rather than focus on individual behavior change (which often blames and burdens families), we create space for community members to reflect and guide and test how systems should change.
We partner through learning experiences that build real practice.
In our training sessions, participants are not just learners—they are partners in a shared learning process. We create space for reflection, honest dialogue, and real-time application so that staff can explore their own values, test new approaches, and strengthen how they engage with the people they serve. Our sessions are interactive, practical, and grounded in your day-to-day realities—blending coaching practice, peer learning, and tools you can immediately use. Together, we build skills, deepen mindset shifts, and support lasting integration into your programs.
We co-create solutions grounded in participant experience.
When funders and partners engage us to explore specific challenges, we lead participant-centered research to understand how systems and services are experienced by the people they are meant to support. We gather insights from families, practitioners, and stakeholders, and use that learning to design coaching frameworks, tools, and strategies that respond to real needs. Our approach is iterative and collaborative—testing, refining, and validating along the way—so that the solutions we develop are not only innovative, but practical, relevant, and rooted in lived experience.
We refine practice through reflection and real-time learning.
We partner with organizations to understand how participant-centered practices are being experienced in day-to-day service delivery. Through guided reflection, shared analysis, and ongoing dialogue, we help teams surface what’s working, where there are gaps, and what adjustments can strengthen alignment with participant needs. Our approach is collaborative and adaptive—creating space to test, learn, and refine—so that participant-centered practices continue to evolve and take hold in meaningful, sustainable ways.