Our Purpose
Talent is equally distributed across the U.S. and opportunity is not. Access to opportunities should not depend on where you live, how much you have in the bank or what you look like.
Our Promise
To partner with people who want to escape from persistent poverty and connect them to solutions for achieving sustainable prosperity.
Our Approach
Through human connection and ingenuity combined with cutting-edge technology and expertise, we connect people to solutions that sustain healthy businesses, healthy communities, and healthy lives
About
Communities Unlimited is unwinding generations of inequity and disinvestment.
Communities Unlimited ignites hope by bridging racial, economic, and geographical boundaries in Southern communities emerging from generations of persistent poverty.
In this nation, access to opportunity should not depend on where you live, what you look like, or what you have in the bank. In the communities with which we partner, we witness perseverance, talent, and strength to create solutions and opportunities for all.
Combining human connection and ingenuity with cutting-edge technology and expertise, Communities Unlimited reveals the unlimited potential in the people and the places we work with.
45%
Communities Unlimited serves 45% of the persistent poverty counties in the United States. A persistent poverty county is one in which over 20% of its residents have lived in poverty for 30 or more years.
Facts
Rural America is as diverse as the country itself, from the geography to the people. No two rural communities are the same.
Lack of access to resources and opportunities has limited the growth potential of the innovative and entrepreneurial people that live in rural places. Communities Unlimited is committed to eliminating the limitations.
of the U.S. population
live in poverty
are minorities
Podcast
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Partners
If we don’t directly provide a solution that a community needs, we partner with someone who does. We proudly partner with national economic development and technical assistance organizations.
Communities Unlimited is the southern regional partner of the Rural Community Assistance Partnership. We serve Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Oklahoma, Tennessee and Texas.