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OUR FOCUS is on creating the vital conditions for intergenerational well-being for all. WIN seeks to create the conditions such that everyone has multiple opportunities to prosper and live well. It also means that we commit to additional supports for those who have the farthest to go to take advantage of these opportunities.
OUR GOAL is to bring our efforts together to secure intergenerational well-being for all. We cannot achieve these conditions alone. It is our ability to come together, across differences, across initiatives, and in partnership with those who are most affected by poor outcomes, that will determine our pathway to well-being. We are interconnected, stronger because of our diversity.
WIN must accelerate progress.
WIN can accomplish more by working together.
EQUITY is our “price of admission.”
PAST & FUTURE LEGACIES MATTER
The legacies created by generations past have shaped our current culture, structures and systems to create well-being for many (eg, environmental protections) and to cause harm to others (eg, policies that reinforce residential segregation and exclusionary zoning). We have enormous opportunity and a shared responsibility as stewards to create the conditions needed to support everyone to have the vital conditions they need to not only survive but thrive. Together, we can lay the foundation for well-being across generations.
WIN MUST
accelerate our progress in improving well-being and addressing inequities. Despite decades of work by nonprofits, philanthropy, and others, many conditions have improved only very slowly and many have moved in the wrong direction for some groups. New approaches are needed. Choosing not to act in the face of poor well-being and inequity is the same as being complicit in perpetuating these inequities. The generations to come deserve better.
WIN CAN
accomplish more by working together. The vital conditions that everyone needs—housing, health care, a good job, transportation, safe places to live and work, etc.—are intertwined and affect each other. Affordable housing in a location that requires a long commute can make it hard to hold down a job. Participating in exercise or community functions is difficult when basic safety is in question. Many different agencies and sectors hold the pieces of the puzzle needed to achieve these solutions.
UNIFYING SOLUTIONS
should be actively sought and promoted when possible. There are many places across the country, in every kind of political context, where ordinary people routinely confront shared challenges and reach across differences to work together to enrich their well-being as a whole community. WIN looks to these communities and to their trans-partisan successes as models for our work together and seek to support their leadership with our own.
EQUITY IS
our ‘price of admission’ and WIN commits to working together to advance such a privilege. This commitment requires equitable processes and outcomes. Equity, in business, represents ownership. WIN believes that the ownership by people with lived experiences of inequity is essential and needs to be actively grown.